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.
Meet Field Day Delegate – François Vergès
The team at Gestalt IT decided to interview a first time delegate at Mobility Field Day, François Vergès. They discussed how he got into tech and IT, what was his first computer, and what are the current biggest challenges in IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - François Vergès
Meet Field Day Delegate – Haydn Andrews
It’s always important to get new voices and faces around the table for our delegates at Field Day events. This year at Mobility Field Day, we have a number of new people attending, including Haydn Andrews. In this interview with Gestalt IT, they dig into his background and IT outlook to better inform where he’s coming from during the company presentations.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Haydn Andrews
The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay – Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
This episode of the Contention Window sees hosts Scott Lester and Tauni Odia talking with Mobility Field Day organizer Tom Hollingsworth and Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett. They’re talking about the upcoming Mobility Field Day event and the overall background of the event series.
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The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay - Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
Mobility Field Day 4 – Here I Come
In this post, Haydn Andrews give a preview of what he’s looking forward to at Mobility Field Day this week. He wrote the post just before hopping on a plane for a 15 hour ride across the ocean, so we hope he gets a lot out of it. Be sure to tune into the live stream to watch along with Haydn during the entire event.
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Mobility Field Day 4 – Here I Come
Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Tim Dennehy
Tim Dennehy is heading out to Mobility Field Day this week, his first event around the delegate table. In this interview with Aruba, he discusses why he loves wireless, how to encourage people to get into STEM, and how he ended up being selected as a Field Day delegate.
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Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Tim Dennehy
Another Mobility Field Day Is Here. Is It Anything to Get Excited About?
You can always count on Drew Lentz for two things: deep insight into the wireless space and a strong GIF game. He delivers both in this post, looking at what he’s expecting from Mobility Field Day. The key for Drew is to keep the focus on new technology, rather than talking about big announcements from last year. He’s also interested in who the mystery company will be! Be sure to watch along on the live stream to see for yourself.
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Another Mobility Field Day is here. Is it anything to get excited about?
Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Dave Benham
Aruba published an interview with first time Mobility Field Day delegate Dave Benham. They discuss how he went from a ham radio operator at age eight to being to working in IT, what role 5G will have as a possible Wi-Fi replacement, and where AI fits into the greater IT picture.
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Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Dave Benham
Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Jennifer Minella
Jennifer Minella is one of the new faces around the delegate table for Mobility Field Day. Aruba decided to interview her to get a little background before they present to her this week. Be sure to check it out for some of her IT background.
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Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Jennifer Minella
Cisco Live 2019 and TechField Day in Review
Losing your phone in a cab isn’t the best way to kick off Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019. Luckily for Nico Stein, the rest of the even was a much better experience. The Cisco Arrival Tweet Up, Cisco Champions behind the scenes tour, and Tech Field Day Extra presentations by the likes of Fred Niehaus and Dave Zacks helped to still make it a great event.
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Cisco Live 2019 and TechField Day in review
Packet Walking Through a 128 Technology Network
Ethan Banks got to see what happens when you combine making security and traffic engineering features first class citizens along with routing protocols and packet forwarding with 128 Technology. In this post, Ethan digs into 128T’s worldview and how it enables unique features without relying on traditional SD-WAN architectures.
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Packet Walking Through A 128 Technology Network
VMware Shows the Value of Preparation at Cloud Field Day
Sometimes life throws you a curveball. How you react determines how successful you will be. VMware’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 5 is a textbook example of this. Much of the day’s presentations were planned to be given by a single person. Jeremiah Megie, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware was planning on presenting at his first ever Tech Field Day event but was stricken by the flu just the day before.
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VMware Shows the Value of Preparation at Cloud Field Day
Pure Accelerate and My Pantone 300 Heart
Becky Elliott had a lot of thoughts before accepting the invite to be a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate. She wondered if, given her affinity for a competitor, it would be a good experience. This piece does a great job arguing against the IT tribalism that can sometimes take shape, and argues for broadening horizons on technology and companies. With that kind of perspective, we can’t wait to hear what she thinks of the event.
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Pure Accelerate and My Pantone 300 Heart
Cloud Native Application Visibility and the Sysdig Way
When the underlying infrastructure is no longer the province of operations teams, cloud-native application visibility becomes an issue. Sysdig is off to a solid start with Linux container monitoring and have Windows containers as well as monitoring of serverless application monitoring on their roadmap. In this piece, Ken Nalbone looks at the specifics of what Sysdig presented at Cloud Field Day.
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Cloud Native Application Visibility and the Sysdig Way
[Sponsored] No Tunnels – No Overlays – All the Secure Routing – 128 Technology
What if you get all the features of SD-WAN, without all the tunnels and overlays. This keeps overhead low while still offering traffic encapsulated and secure. In this video from Jordan Martin, he looks at how 128 Technology makes that possible.
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[Sponsored] No Tunnels - No Overlays - All The Secure Routing - 128 Technology
BiB 081: 128 Technology Rethinks the WAN Router
There’s no shortage of x86 software-based routers on the market. What makes 128 Technology stand out is their implementation. In this piece, Drew Conry-Murray looks at the specifics of how they offer a stateful, session-based router with a zero trust security posture, but don’t rely on traditional tunneling or encapsulation.
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BiB 081: 128 Technology Rethinks The WAN Router
Meet Field Day Delegate – Manon (“Mae”) Lessard
Mae Lessard is coming to Mobility Field Day next week, so we decided to get to know her a little better. In this Meet the Delegates interview, we asked her how she got into IT, what she does in her free time, where she sees the industry heading, and more.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Manon ("Mae") Lessard
What I Hope I Don’t Hear at Mobility Field Day 4
When it comes to wireless and mobility, Lee Badman knowns the landscape pretty well. He’s definitely excited to get the latest updates at Mobility Field Day next week. The event has a good mix of industry stalwarts, exciting startups, and community favorites. But in this piece, he considers what he doesn’t want to hear at the event. From AI overload to dashboard fever, Lee outlines some of the hype that he hopes doesn’t drown out the great technical content.
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What I Hope I Don’t Hear at Mobility Field Day 4
Clear Your Calendar..MFD4 Is Almost Here!
Scott Lester is excited to return to Mobility Field Day next week. He’s particularly glad to see Metageek returning as a presenter for the event. They’ve been away for several years, so there are sure to be lots of interesting updates. In this post, Scott runs down the other presenters at the event, from Aruba Networks, to Fortinet, and Juniper Networks’ Mist. And of course the tantilizing promise of a Field Day classic “Secret Company”. Be sure to follow along on the live stream to see who will be presenting!
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Clear your calendar..MFD4 is almost here!
Meet Field Day Delegate – Dave Benham
Dave Benham is coming to Mobility Field Day next week! Be sure to check out our interview with him to get a little more detail about his background, where he sees IT going in the near future, and what he does when he’s not working in IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Dave Benham
Cross Pollinating Catalyst Platforms With NetBeez
Containers are the new way to build software that can run anywhere. That’s especially true if you’re wanting to run software on a Cisco Catalyst Switch. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how NetBeez is leveraging this capability to bring their exciting analytics solution to the platform.
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