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.
Gearing Up for Commvault GO 2019
What surprises await us at the crossroads of storage and data management? Markus Leinonen shares his take on what he expects to see during Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO in Denver. After Commvault recently revealed that they’ve just sealed the deal to acquire storage company, Hedvig, everyone is on pins and needles waiting to hear about new developments.
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Gearing up for Commvault GO 2019
It’s a Go for Commvault GO!
As an independent industry analyst, Karen Lopez was invited again to attend Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver. This is her second time at this event and she’s looking forward to chatting with project teams about what they’ve accomplished in the last year. As a Data Evangelist with a focus on data quality and data protection, she’s going to be looking at topics that helps her love data better.
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Pure//Accelerate 2019 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
When you have an event like Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019, you want to be sure you have the best and sharpest minds in storage in attendance. That’s why inviting Dan Frith was a no-brainer. Be sure to check out all of his pieces detailing what he saw at the event, and check out his comprehensive disclosure of exactly what happened while he was across the pond.
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Pure//Accelerate 2019 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
Meet Field Day Delegate – Stefan Fouant
If you saw a new face around the delegate table at Networking Field Day, it might have been Stefan Fouant! While new as a Field Day delegate, Stefan shared a lot about his background and perspective on IT in this interview with Gestalt IT. Be sure to check it out.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Stefan Fouant
Pure Accelerate’s Inspired Keynote
Becky Elliott was one of the delegates to attend Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. At the larger event, there were a number of excellent speakers. One keynote grabbed Becky was by Leland Melvin, who detailed his journey following his dream to become an astronaut.
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Pure Accelerate's Inspired Keynote
Disclosure: Pure Accelerate 2019
It’s always a privilege to have Justin Warren as a delegate at an event, and it was great to see him at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. In this post, Justin runs down just about everything that happened during the event. Be sure to check out all of our video coverage from the event to stay up to date on the technical details!
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Disclosure: Pure Accelerate 2019
Cloud Field Day 6 Preview -Solo.io
Nate Avery got to hear from Solo.io at Cloud Field Day. Their solution center around service mesh solutions, an area that Nate sees as exploding with competition and features. In this post, he looks at the different apps the company makes, and what he was expecting to see from their presentation. Be sure to check out their full video coverage from the event.
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Cloud Field Day 6 Preview -Solo.io
Lucid Link CFD6 – Hot Take
Another mobile file system? Keith Townsend thought he was going to see a familiar song and dance from Lucid Link at Cloud Field Day. But he was pleasently surprised to see a truly different solution, with block storage served on top of S3 object storage, with a global file system distributed among clients. They had a very interesting demo, so be sure to check out their full event video coverage.
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NetApp CFD6 – Hot Take
In this hot take from Keith Townsend, he looks at what NetApp showed off at Cloud Field Day. Keith is no stranger to hearing from the company, but this session had a deep technical focus. They looked at where does NetApp’s Kubernetes service run its compute. They reviewed how they separate their control plane from the cloud underlay and deploy instances large enough to support the Kubernetes infrastructure next to storage and other workloads.
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Pure Cloud Block Store Available on AWS
Alastair Cooke attended Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019, and got to see a number of technical deep dive presentations on the major new solution announced at the event. In this post he digs into Pure Cloud Block Store on AWS.
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Pure Cloud Block Store Available on AWS
Cloud Field Day 6 – Dell Technologies
In this video, Nate Avery digs into what he saw from Dell Technologies at Cloud Field Day. He digs into Dell and VMware’s commitment to bringing cloud to features and pricing to customer’s on-prem datacenters.
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Cloud Field Day 6 - Dell Technologies
Cloud Field Day – First Impressions on Hammerspace
Ned Bellavance got to hear from Hammerspace at Cloud Field Day last month and shares his initial impressions in this post. They did a technical deep dive on their platform that sits in front of multiple NFS systems and decouples the metadata layer and the data layer from each other. In this piece, Ned considers if they showed the value in adding this abstraction layer into an organizations stack.
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Cloud Field Day – First Impressions on Hammerspace
EXTRAHOP CFD6 Hot Take
Keith Townsend is posting hot take reactions of all the presentations at Cloud Field Day. He was looking forward to seeing ExtraHop’s networking management features at the event and using their platform under system demand. The presentation went another way with a security heavy focus. Be sure to check it out for a full deep dive.
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Architecture, Governance and Multi-Cloud: Takeaways From TFDx at VMworld
Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld had a lot of great technical deep dive content. There was also a great Cloud Roundtable discussion, which we were fortunate to have Adam Post participate in. Be sure to check out this post with his takeaways from the talk.
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Architecture, Governance and Multi-cloud: Takeaways from TFDx at VMworld
Meet Field Day Delegate – Jeremy Schulman
Our super sized Networking Field Day had a lot of new faces at it, including Jeremy Schulman. While a first time delegate, Jeremy has had some experience on the other side of the table, so we can’t wait to see what he thought of the event. Be sure to check out this interview with Gestalt IT to get more background on what Jeremy is up to and where he sees IT going.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Jeremy Schulman
Meet Field Day Delegate – Micheline Murphy
Micheline Murphy recently did an interview with Gestalt IT, giving her background and thoughts on IT. Be sure to check it out before seeing Micheline around the delegate table at Networking Field Day. As a first time delegate at the event, we can’t wait to hear what she thought of the Field Day experience, and what presentations she enjoyed seeing at the event.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Micheline Murphy
HashiCorp CFD6 Hot Take
Keith Townsend attended the HashiCorp CFD6 presentation on Consul. While extremely low level Keith was able to walk away with the value prop of Consul. Service discovery is becoming a more important part of the hybrid cloud management operations. Learn more of Keith’s thoughts in this video.
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Scott Morris
We love having new delegates at Field Day events to keep the perspectives fresh and the voices vital to the conversation. Scott Morris was one of the new faces at Networking Field Day, and in this interview with Gestalt IT, he gives a little background on his context and background in IT, and where he sees it going.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Scott Morris
NetApp Cloud Insights: Visibility of Everything for Everyone
To provide a complete picture of infrastructure usage and offer optimization recommendations regardless of location be it private, public, or hybrid cloud, NetApp has recently released Cloud Insights. During his presentation at Tech Field Day 19, James Holden, director of NetApp’s cloud analytics team, provided both an overview of and deep dive into the features and functionality of Cloud Insights.
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NetApp Cloud Insights: Visibility of Everything for Everyone
FlashArray//X Gets Optane Acceleration With DirectMemory
Inte’s Optane storage class memory has had a lot of implications across IT. In this post, Chris Evans looks at its use in FlashArray//X, using their just announced DirectMemory cache acceleration solution. While Chris had some concerns about durability with this approach, what he saw at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate showed that Pure has the pieces in place to deliver an SCM-based array.
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