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.

20/10 Vision: Aruba’s 20th Presentation at Tech Field Day’s 10th Anniversary

We were thrilled to have Aruba Networks return for our tenth anniversary Tech Field Day event, which marked their twentieth overall presentation with the event series. Having presented at the event since 2012, in this post, Aruba details their presentation highlights from years past.

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20/10 Vision: Aruba's 20th Presentation at Tech Field Day's 10th Anniversary

Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jon Klaus

Aruba Networks did interviews with the delegates for Tech Field Day. In this post, they spoke with Jon Klaus, a familiar face to anyone who’s watched our videos. They talked about how he got involved with the event, his favorite memories, and more.

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Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jon Klaus

BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – the On-Premise IT Roundtable

In this bonus episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable, we’re joining Stephen Foskett as he talks with some of the original delegates and inspirations for the Tech Field Day event series. They discuss the event that gave Stephen the initial idea, a fortuitous plane ride, how the first Tech Field Day event went, where the idea for the live stream started and more.

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BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

AI and Trivia

Tom Hollingsworth didn’t get to attend Networking Field Day Exclusive at Juniper NXTWORK 2019, but definitely has thoughts about what was presented at the show. With Juniper making major investments and acquisitions in ML and AI, Tom considers how this will effect networking. In his mind, if algorithmic approaches can deal with troubleshooting, it’s definitely a technology he’s interested in.

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AI and Trivia

Ixia Brings Consistency to Visibility

In the every changing world of enterprise IT, there is something to be said for consistency. For customers who are seeking a reliable partner that will enable them to enjoy the same level of visibility of their network and applications regardless of the operating model, it is nice to know that IXIA has them covered. Ken Nalbone breaks down what the company presented at a recent Tech Field Day event in this post.

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Ixia Brings Consistency to Visibility

Veeam Enhanced NAS Backup – TFD20

Veeam’s Michael Cade was one of the company’s presenters at our tenth anniversary Tech Field Day event. In this video, he takes the time to answer some questions that there wasn’t enough time to fully address during the event.

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Veeam Enhanced NAS Backup - TFD20

Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jordan Martin

Jordan Martin is no stranger to Field Day events, and we were thrilled that he could join us for our tenth anniversary event as a delegate. In this interview with Aruba Networks, he discusses why tech was almost a hereditary calling for him, how he got into networking, and how he got started in podcasting.

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Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jordan Martin

Congrats to Tech Field Day for Hitting 10 Years!

For Matt Crape, 2016 was a big year, in no small part thanks to being invited to his first Tech Field Day event. For our 10th anniversary, Matt is looking back at what the event has meant to him and how it has impacted his career and life in a big way.

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Congrats to Tech Field Day for Hitting 10 Years!

HPE Primera – More Than Just a Rock-Solid Storage Platform

At Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019, Matt Leib got a deep dive into HPE Primera. This new storage platform offers something truly unique in storage. Rather than offering 5 or 6 9s of up time, HPE claims 100%. Matt digs into the detail of how HPE makes this possible.

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HPE Primera – More than just a rock-solid Storage Platform

Tech Field Day 20: Switch Forward to a Cloud-Native Network From Edge to Data Center

At Tech Field Day, we were fortunate to be joined again by Aruba Networks. For this presentation, they showcased how Aruba CX switches simplify networking tasks with automation and full programmability enabled by the modern, microservices architecture of the AOS-CX operating system. Be sure to check out the full video coverage of their presentation.

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Tech Field Day 20: Switch Forward to a Cloud-Native Network from Edge to Data Center

Day 1 @ #NXTWORK 2019

In this video, Drew Lentz shares his thoughts after the first day of Networking Field Day Exclusive at Juniper NXTWORK 2019.

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Day 1 @ #NXTWORK 2019

What’s So Cool About #AI for Networks?

Drew Lentz was a delegate at Networking Field Day Exclusive at Juniper NXTWORK 2019. Leading up to the event, he shares his thoughts about the event, considering why networking needs AI and ML, and if this will make the lives of networking professionals better.

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What's so cool about #AI for networks?

Juniper #NXTWORK Keynote Pt 1

In this video, Drew Lentz shares his quick thoughts on the first part of the Juniper Networks keynote at NXTWORK 2019.

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Juniper #NXTWORK Pt 1

Extreme Is Bringing Purple Rain From the Cloud

At Networing Field Day, Extreme Networks showed how the company plans to integrate the assets it acquired with Aerohive. Nick Shoemaker was at the event, and breaks down what he saw in this post.

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Extreme is Bringing Purple Rain from the Cloud

Meet the #TFD Founder: Stephen Foskett

It was great to have Aruba Network interview Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett on the event’s tenth anniversary. In it, they discuss how the event got started, what has changed since the beginning, and what the event offers delegates and presenting companies.

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Meet the #TFD Founder: Stephen Foskett

#TFD Turns 10

Tech Field Day is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and we appreciate all the people letting us know what the event series has meant to them. In this piece Matt Leib talks about the value of bringing diverse delegates and companies together for meaningful technical conversations. We can’t wait to have Matt back at an event soon.

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#TFD Turns 10

Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro has been coming to Field Day events since 2016. In this interview with Aruba Networks, he discusses how he initially got involved, how the community has impacted his career, and how the event has changed over time.

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Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Max Mortillaro

Heading to Tech Field Day 20

Anthony Spiteri is presenting for Veeam at Tech Field Day, specifically the 10th anniversary of the event series. In this post, he writes about what he was looking forward to seeing at the event and what attending the event has meant for him.

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Heading to Tech Field Day 20

Meet Field Day Delegate – Gina Rosenthal

Gina Rosenthal attended her first Tech Field Day. Before you sere her around the delegate table, check out this interview she did with Gestalt IT to get some background and find out where she sees IT going.

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Gina Rosenthal

Juniper NXTWORK 2019 Keynote Live Blog

If you missed any of the major announcements from Juniper NXTWORK 2019, be sure to check out the live blog from Gestalt IT. Stephen Foskett was there and documenting all the news.

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Juniper NXTWORK 2019 Keynote Live Blog