Tech Field Day Coverage
Our delegate panel includes independent writers and thought leaders, and we collect their coverage of the event, Tech Field Day presentations, and sponsoring companies here.
Data-As-A-Service by Hammerspace
Hammerspace returned to Cloud Field Day to show more details about their Data-as-a-Service offering to the delegates. Rita Younger was definitely impressed by their solution, which offers a true software-defined data management approach that lets organizations abstract data from the infrastructure that serves it up. It has some interesting implications which Rita details in her piece.
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Data-as-a-Service by Hammerspace
WLAN Toolmakers Are Going All in on the Cloud
In this post, Lee Badman looks at how the WLAN industry is embracing the cloud. He saw no better example of that than what he saw from MetaGeek and NetAlly at Mobility Field Day. Both companies are proving that adding in cloud capabilities can add real value to customers. To get the full analysis, be sure to check out Lee’s piece.
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WLAN Toolmakers Are Going All In on the Cloud
Sysdig Converges Monitoring and Security
Joep Piscaer heard from Sysdig at Cloud Field Day this past spring. In this post, he uses that presentation to consider how we evaluate application health, and how Sysdig helps companies solve the cloud-native visibility gap.
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Sysdig converges monitoring and security
Network Neighborhood: Corporate Communications and the IT Community With Dana Iskoldski
In this episode of Network Neighborhood, Ethan Banks talks with Dana Iskoldski, Corporate Communications Manager at BlueCat Networks. Ethan heard extensively from BlueCat at Networking Field Day last year. This time they dive deep into the role of corporate communications in tech.
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Network Neighborhood: Corporate Communications And The IT Community With Dana Iskoldski
Meet Field Day Delegate – Markus Leinonen
We love to grow the Field Day family by inviting new faces to our events, and we’re thrilled that Markus Leinonen joined us for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 this year. Be sure to check out this interview with Gestalt IT to learn how he got his start in IT, and get some perspective on where he’s coming from.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Markus Leinonen
GIT Pure Flash Array//C Returns to the Beginning
Alastair Cooke was as a delegate for Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. Here he shares a review of the capacity and performance of Pure Storage’s new array series. Pure provides lots of technical deep dives of all their big announcements at the event, be sure to check out our video coverage.
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GIT Pure Flash Array//C Returns to the Beginning
Solo.io at Cloud Field Day 6 – solo.io
In this post, Solo.io details what they presented at Cloud Field Day, their first time at the event. Their presentation centered around the company’s solutions for helping companies build and deploy new microservices applications, then add service mesh technologies to environments, while providing an application health toolkit designed specifically for multi-language microservices. Check out the full video for all the details.
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Itential Debuts at Networking Field Day 21
The team at Itential made their first presentation at Networking Field Day. They choose to make a splash at one of our biggest events of the year. In this post, they break down what they discussed in each part of their presentation. Be sure to check out what this company is doing with networking automation.
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Itential Debuts at Networking Field Day 21
ExtraHop at Cloud Field Day 2019
ExtraHop was definitely excited to talk to the Cloud Field Day delegates this time around. At the event, they went deep on Reveal(x) Cloud, their cloud-native network detection and response solution. They shared some customer success stories with the product, did a deep dive on the architecture, and more. Be sure to check out all the videos from the event for all the details.
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ExtraHop at Cloud Field Day 2019
NetApp HCI: Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Arjan Timmerman is back on the blogging beat and covering the last Field Day event he attended. In this post, he’s covering the presentations from Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018. It’s an interesting post that has some added perspective given the time that’s passed. We can’t wait to see more great writing from Arjan!
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NetApp HCI: Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Arrcus: An Application of Modern OEM Principles for Whitebox Switches
Arrcus definitely made an impression on Amy Arnold after Networking Field Day. If nothing else, it spurred some pirate puns. But perhaps more importantly, she was impressed by their approach to whitebox switching. They showed off the latest with ArcOS, which now leverages advanced capabilities of the Jericho-2 chipset. Be sure to check out the rest of the post for all the details.
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Arrcus: An Application of Modern OEM Principles for Whitebox Switches
VMware’s Cloud in 300-Words
Keith Townsend returned to the VMware campus to hear Dell Technologies share their vision of VMware on Dell Technologies Cloud during Cloud Field Day. He recorded a great “hot take” video directly after the event, be sure to check it out. He was impressed by the quality of the conversation and the willingness of Dell to be flexible in the discussion.
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NetAlly EtherScope nXG Pics
Lee Badman previously introduced NetAlly’s EtherScope nXG. He’s been testing out this exciting new wireless analysis tool, and in this post, shares some screen shots of its functionality and layout. If you’re curious to see it in action, give this post a look.
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I’m Going to DisneyLand!
Dave Henry is going to have a busy fall coming up, traveling to be a delegate at the Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019. This will coincide with the Nth Generation Symposium, which means Dave is heading to DisneyLand. But what’s really exciting Dave is all the technical innovation that will be on display, and the great technical content he’s come to expect from Field Day events.
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Fast Friday Thoughts – Networking Field Day 21
Tom Hollingsworth usually has some keen insights after a Networking Field Day event. As the organizer, it’s not surprising. In this post, he shares some quick thoughts about overall trends from the event. He’s seeing SD-WAN moving to become application-centric, automation getting a more human touch, and why owning the stack leads to disappointment. Be sure to check out the whole post for lots of great insights.
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Fast Friday Thoughts – Networking Field Day 21
Cloud Field Day 6–HashiCorp Consul
At Cloud Field Day, HashiCorp showed that they had more to offer the delegates than their well known solutions like Terraform and Vault. In this post, Joey D’Antoni looks at Consul, a service based networking tool for dynamic infrastructure like containers and serverless.
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Cloud Field Day 6–HashiCorp Consul
CFD6 VMware API Questions
Larry Smith Jr is no stranger to Field Day events, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t love having him as a delegate at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. He brings his typical technical acumen and insight into this post, asking some key question on what he saw from VMware at the event. To date, Larry has not been a fan of VMware API implementation and documentation. Be sure sure to check out his post to see if this presentation changed his mind.
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Cloud Field Day 6–Morpheus Data
We were fortunate to have Joey D’Antoni attend Cloud Field Day as a delegate. In this post, he breaks down what he saw from Morpheus Data at the event. They provide a set of tools that integrate with CI/CD solutions to offer a service catalog, provisioning system, along with configuration management. In there own estimation, they allow big companies to act like startups.
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Cloud Field Day 6–Morpheus Data
HPE CEO Antonio Neri to Keynote at Nth Symposium
Tech Field Day is joining HPE Storage at the annual Nth Symposium in Anaheim, California! We’re looking forward to a day of Field Day presentations on Tuesday, October 22 and a special keynote from HPE on Thursday, October 24. In this post, Calvin Zito outlines his plans for the event.
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HPE CEO Antonio Neri to keynote at Nth Symposium
NFD21 Delegate!
Remington Loose was a first time delegate at Networking Field Day. While it can be a little intimidating to drink from the IT fire hose at such an event, Remington definitely did his homework. He profiles the presenting companies in this piece and what he expected to see from each. Now that the event is over, we can’t wait to hear what he thought of the presentations.
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