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.
Hammerspace CFD6 – Hot Take
In this video, Keith Townsend gives his first impressions of the Hammerspace presentation at Cloud Field Day 6 in Santa Clara.
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The Contention Window: S1E14: Celona and Enterprise 5G
Celona presented at Mobility Field Day, marking their debut at the event. In this episode of the Contention Window, Scott Lester spoke with the company’s co-founders, Rajeev Shah and Mehmet Yavuz.
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The Contention Window: S1E14: Celona and Enterprise 5G
Videocast From Pure Accelerate 2019
Max Mortillaro was a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. In this video, he shares his thoughts about FlashArray //C, which was announced at the show. The delegates got a deep dive into this during the Field Day presentations.
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Videocast from Pure Accelerate 2019
A Better Way to Do Guest Wireless
Haydn Andrews considers what he saw from Aruba and Cisco at Mobility Field Day. Each showed how they will use existing wireless networks to fill in the cellular gap, which requires making sign on seamless. The two companies have different approaches, and Haydn breaks it down in this post.
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A Better Way To Do Guest Wireless
Meet Field Day Delegate – Josh Warcop
Josh Warcop is one of the new faces we’ll be seeing around the delegate table for Networking Field Day. Before that, be sure to get to know him a little better with this interview from Gestalt IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Josh Warcop
MFD4 – Metageek Tools Update
Metageek returned the Field Day experience with Mobility Field Day this summer. Dave Benham has a long history using their tools, and appreciated seeing their latest at the event. They showed off Air Viewer, which brings WiSpy Air data to iOS and Android.
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Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Hammerspace and solo.io
Ned Bellavance is out at Cloud Field Day this week, but before he left for the event, he completed a comprehensive look at the presenting companies. Never let it be said that Ned doesn’t do his homework. In this space, he takes a look at what he expects to see from hammerspace and solo.io.
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Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Hammerspace and solo.io
Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Lucidlink and ExtraHop
Drinking from the IT fire hose at an event like Cloud Field Day can be overwhelming at first glance. It’s a lot of information to take in, even when viewing remotely. Luckily many of the delegates do their homework and post previews of what to expect. In this post, Ned Bellavance wrote up some background and what he expects to see from Lucidlink and ExtraHop. Be sure to check it out before watching their presentations.
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Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Lucidlink and ExtraHop
The Unconscious Choice for Multi-Cloud
Ownership of application and cloud architecture is constantly shifting and is becoming a shared responsibility of business, operations, developers, architects, and security. If you don’t guide the process of cloud consumption within your organization, you’ll end up with a disjointed multi-cloud. In other words: many different disconnected islands, each with incomplete, badly implemented, unaudited security and compliance standards. Joep Piscaer digs into the details in this piece.
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The Unconscious Choice for Multi-cloud
HashiCorp Consul at Cloud Field Day
If you were wondering what HashiCorp would show off at Cloud Field Day this week, they posted a little preview about the subject. What is lost in anticipation is more than made up with interest however. They’ll be talking about their cloud networking automation product HashiCorp Consul. Be sure to check out the presentation video to see how Consul allows for service discovery and service mesh capabilities to help customers build fast, reliable, and scalable networks to support cloud-based applications.
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HashiCorp Consul at Cloud Field Day
LucidLink Is Proud to Be Presenting at Cloud Tech Field Day 6
LucidLink is presenting at Cloud Field Day, and in this piece previews what to expect at the event. They’ll have CEO Peter Thompson and CTO George Dochev at the presentation, so the delegates will get to hear directly from the top what the company is offering. They’ll be talking about their Filespaces architecture, which offers high-performance cloud-native file service. This post has some additional resources, so be sure to read up before getting into their presentation.
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LucidLink is proud to be presenting at Cloud Tech Field Day 6
Making Sense of Your Multiple Clouds: 5 Takeaways From VMworld
Dell Technologies presented at Tech Field Day Extra a t VMworld US 2019. In this post, they break down their multi-cloud takeaways from the larger show, and how they used these to inform their presentation to the Tech Field Day delegates.
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Making Sense of Your Multiple Clouds: 5 Takeaways From VMworld
Preparing for the BIG ONE: Networking Field Day 21
Bruno Wollmann is excited for Networking Field Day. The event looks to literally be one of the biggest ever. Seriously, there are so many presenting companies, the event runs for four days. It should prove to be a jam packed event full of the latest networking goodness. Be sure to check out our live stream to catch it all for yourself.
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Preparing for the BIG ONE: Networking Field Day 21
Pure Storage Expands Portfolio, Adds Capacity and Performance
Dan Frith is no stranger to the world of storage, and we were thrilled to have him at our presentations at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate. In this post, he shares his thoughts from the show, from DirectMemory Cache to FlashArray//C.
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Pure Storage Expands Portfolio, Adds Capacity And Performance
Network Field Day 21 – October 1-4, 2019 – Biggest Tech Field Day Event Ever?!?
Ed Horley can’t hide his excited anticipation for Networking Field Day. The event has had such a swell of interest from presenting companies, it’s been expanded to occur over 4 days. It will be jammed packed with prominent presenters and diligent delegates, so mark your calendars!
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Network Field Day 21 - October 1-4, 2019 - Biggest Tech Field Day Event Ever?!?
I’m Going to Cloud Field Day 6!
Chris Williams is at Cloud Field Day this week, and he’s looking forward to drinking from the IT fire hose. He’ll be hearing from eight prominent cloud companies over the next three days, be sure to follow along on our live stream to get all the latest.
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I'm going to Cloud Field Day 6!
Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Williams – Gestalt IT
We’ve got a number of new faces joining us at Chris Williams. Before you watch the live stream of all the presentations, read this interview from Gestalt IT to get to know one of the new delegates. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Chris Williams - Gestalt IT
Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
Ken Nalbone and Stephen Foskett live-blogged the Pure Accelerate 2019 keynote. This is day 2, featuring Leland Melvin and James Governor.
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Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
Stopping Security Silos With Palo Alto Networks Cortex
Security silos can make us miss the important things. Tom Hollingsworth heard from Palo Alto Network at Security Field Day and looks at Cortex and how it can help us get better results from our data without the silos getting in the way.
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Stopping Security Silos with Palo Alto Networks Cortex
Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 1 Keynote Liveblog
Stephen Foskett live blogged day one of the Pure Accelerate keynote. Be sure to check out all the latest announcements, then dig into our presentations from Tech Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate.
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