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.
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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FlashArray//X Gets Optane Acceleration with DirectMemory
Cloud Is Hard. Kubernetes Won’t Save You
Public cloud providers and enterprise IT vendors alike position Kubernetes as the control plane for cloud-native applications. They promise an application environment that will run on any public or private cloud, reducing cloud lock-in and enabling hybrid and multi-cloud designs. Drew Conry-Murray breaks down the promise and challenge of Kubernetes in this post, inspired from the VMworld Cloud Roundtable.
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Cloud Is Hard. Kubernetes Won’t Save You
Meet Field Day Delegate – Remington Loose
Networking Field Day was the first event Remington Loose attended as a delegate. If you haven’t already seen him around the table, be sure to checkout this interview he did with Gestalt IT. He goes over how he got into IT, where it’s going, and gets into his perspective on tech. It’s an interesting read and some valuable context.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Remington Loose
Morpheus Data CFD6 – Hot Take
Morpheus data presented a massive amount of capability in a single package during Cloud Field Day. In this video, Keith Townsend discusses what impressed him and where technology alone isn’t a solution for infrastructure as code.
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Pure Storage Introduces Cloud Block Store, Secondary Storage All Flash Array, Optane Caching Solution
We were thrilled to have Max Mortillaro as a delegate for Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate this year. In this post, he shares his thoughts on a lot of the announcements from the show, including Cloud Block Store, FlashArray //C, DirectMemory. He gives a quick technical overview and digs into their potential use cases.
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No FOMO Here: Watch Highlights From #MFD4
If you missed any of the presentations from Aruba Networks or the other presenting companies at Mobility Field Day, all the videos from the event are available to watch on demand! In this post, Aruba shared all of their videos from the event in one place. But be sure to subscribe to the Tech Field Day YouTube channel to get them all in your feed!
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No FOMO Here: Watch Highlights from #MFD4
Celona – LTE for Enterprise at MFD4
Jonathan Davis heard from Celona at Mobility Field Day. They showed their solutions around CBRS, an exciting and more stringently standardized protocol than many other mobility solutions. While Jonathan doesn’t think this can kill Wi-Fi, he does see it as an ideal fit for a wide variety of enterprise deployments.
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Celona – LTE for Enterprise at MFD4
Pure Storage FlashArray//C – First Impressions
Chris Evans shared his thoughts on Pure Storage’s new FlashArray//C in this post. He got a deep dive on the new storage solution while attending Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate. This went beyond the speed and feed of the announcement, giving the technical deep dive needed to really help Chris put the product into context and speak to its potential use cases.
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Pure Storage FlashArray//C - First Impressions
OnGo Is Here- And Startup Celona Helps CBRS Takes a Big Step Forward
In this post, Lee Badman breaks down what he saw from Celona, a startup making their debut presentation at Mobility Field Day. They showed off their solutions around Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS). They showed how it fits into the overall wireless landscape, where currently 5G and Wi-Fi 6 get a lot more coverage. Be sure to check out their videos for a full architectural deep dive.
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OnGo Is Here- and Startup Celona Helps CBRS Takes a Big Step Forward
VMworld Cloud Roundtable Discussion
At VMworld, Christopher Kusek participated in a roundtable discussion with some fellow visionaries of Cloud Architecture. They discussed the past, present, and future of Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure. This conversation highlighted a bright future for cloud, multi-cloud, security, and containers.
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VMworld Cloud Roundtable Discussion
89: Keith & Ray Show at Pure//Accelerate 2019
On this episode of the GreyBeardsOnStorage Podcast, Keith Townsend and Ray Lucchesi look at the major announcements from Pure Accelerate. They got a lot of in-depth technical presentations as part of the Storage Field Day Exclusive at the event, and they dig into the implications of DirectMemory, FlashArray//C, CloudBlockStore, and more.
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