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.
News Form Cloud Side #3
Lino Telera is joining us as a delegate for Cloud Field Day later this summer and we can’t wait to have him back at an event! In this post, he’s running down all the cloudy things that he’s been up to, and even previews some of the presenters at Cloud Field Day. Be sure to stay tuned to Lino’s blog to keep track of his thoughts after the event.
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Code It, Don’t Snippet
As Cisco presses DevNet Ops for network engineers, they had courses for every ability at Cisco Live in San Diego. Brian Gleason looked at a session covering the fundamental tools of coding with REST APIs. Be sure to check out the rest of the video presentations from Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019 for more great content.
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The GUI and the Ugly Baby
Ixia’s Jason Lackey wrote up a blog post about the company’s recent presentation at Tech Field Day last month. He points out that while the Ixia UI might not be the slickest, it was built for something else. Jason touts the speed, ease of use, and accuracy as the primary design decisions behind the UI, something that is more useful than a new coat of paint. Be sure to check out their entire presentation video to get the full deep dive.
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Remote Access Amazement With Opengear
Is the stress of remote out-of-band management starting to affect the way your organization deploys? Tired of being told to get on a plane to fly out and fix a failed installation? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at what Opengear showed off at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019 and their new NetOps-style Lighthouse system. See how it can help streamline your remote deployments and be amazed and the way you can utilize industry standard tools to create resilient monitoring systems.
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Remote Access Amazement with Opengear
The HCI Definition Obsession
In this post, Chris Evans considers the latest ability of NetApp’s Cloud Volumes services to run on-premises with NetApp HCI. This struck him as storage coming full circle, with a cloud-native approach to storage coming back within the data center. For Chris, this sparked the thought that maybe people have misunderstood NetApp’s HCI strategy from the start. Instead of strictly adhering to a traditional definition of HCI, NetApp built a hybrid cloud solution that provides a consistent experience for customers. In the end, Chris thinks that’s more valuable.
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Cisco WiFi 6 and the New Cisco Catalyst Access Points
In this post, Nico Stein looks at the new Wi-Fi 6 specific features found on the Cisco Catalyst Access Points. He got a deep dive into the latest on this during Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019 from the inimitable Fred Niehaus. Overall Nico sees Wi-Fi 6 being more about efficiency than about maximizing throughput, something he saw reiterated in Cisco’s latest.
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Cisco WiFi 6 and the new Cisco Catalyst Access Points
The Security Field Day 2 Experience
Stephanie Ihezukwu attended her first Field Day event with Security Field Day earlier this year. The experience of the event is sometimes hard to understand until you attend, and it’s always great to hear people share their perspective. She really enjoyed the packed technical presentations of the event, and the chance to see these presentations at presenter’s offices. Over the course of three intense days, she got to bond with the other delegates and immerse herself in the latest enterprise security goodness. We can’t wait to hear more from Stephanie!
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The Security Field Day 2 Experience
Digitalizing Workplaces With Automation Anywhere RPA
Pietro Piutti attended Tech Field Day last month, and got to hear Automation Anywhere present for the first time at the event. While new to Field Day, the company is not new to Robotic Process Automation. They showed off their solutions for the fast-growing RPA market during their presentation. Before the presentation, Pietro was skeptical and even a little worried about the implications of RPA solutions. After though, he had his eyes opened to whole new possibilities.
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Digitalizing workplaces with Automation Anywhere RPA
Security Field Day 2019 and Guardicore Centra
Avishag Daniely wrote on Guardicore’s blog about the company’s experience at Security Field Day earlier this year. This was the first time they presented at a Field Day event in four years, so the security landscape has definitely changed in that time. They highlighted Guardicore’s focus on simplicity and visibility in the presentation. Be sure to check out the full presentation video to stay up to date.
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Security Field Day 2019 and Guardicore Centra
EP27 – VAST Data – a Revolutionary Storage Platform for the Next Decade – With Howard Marks
In this episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast, hosts Max Mortillaro and Arjan Timmerman talked with Howard Marks. While they once all joined forces behind the delegate table at Field Day events, Howard is now the Technologist Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at VAST Data. VAST presented at Storage Field Day, and in the episode, they dive deep into how the company is bringing revolutionary flash economics to the market by combining 3D XPoint, NVMe-oF and QLC Flash.
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EP27 – VAST Data – A Revolutionary Storage Platform For The Next Decade – with Howard Marks
One Year in @ VMware – A Q&A With Myself
Matt Crape has been working at VMware for about a year. In this post, he reflects on how the opportunity came at him very quickly, and what he misses from working on the customer side. One of the things he misses are events like Tech Field Day. But as Matt says, without those events, he couldn’t be where he is today. We’re glad we could be part of Matt’s career journey!
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One Year In @ VMware - A Q&A With Myself
Software Defining Industrial and IoT Networks
The Internet of Things (IoT) often gets represented as consumer grade cameras, sensors, thermostats, and appliances. While this certainly is a notable portion of the IoT market, it neglects the more mission-critical side of IoT which has its roots firmly planted in the heart of industrial networking. In this post, Jordan Martin takes a look at the new products he saw at Tech Field Day Extra from Cisco Live US 2019 that focus specifically on those use cases.
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Software Defining Industrial and IoT Networks
Druva – Uber for Data Protection
Druva returned as a presenter with their most recent appearance at Tech Field Day last month. Liselotte Foverskov was a delegate at the event and got a full deep dive of their latest and greatest. This post looks at some of the benefits of the company SaaS data protection solution and how it can be useful to organizations today.
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Druva - Uber for Data Protection
Moving the Control Plane to Multi-Cloud With New vRealize Operations
Multi-cloud automation and orchestration is a daunting task, but Raff Poltronieri thinks VMware has an intriguing solution with vRealize Operations. While Raff wasn’t a delegate at the event, he followed along on the live stream remotely, and was able to get a lot out of the presentation. During the presentation, VMware reviewed their four tenants of self-driving operations, something they hope to implement in vRealize Operations. Raff digs into the specifics in this piece.
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Moving the control plane to multi-cloud with new vRealize Operations
Using Pipelines for Administrators in Code Stream
One of the great thingsabout Tech Field Day events is that they are live streamed with full video available soon after the presentation. This allows anyone to check out the technical content at their own convenience. That’s what Raff Poltronieri did with VMware’s Tech Field Day presentation last month. In this post, he digs into Code Stream, one of the components of VMware’s multi-cloud automation platform. Coding isn’t directly in Raff’s comfort zone, but he got a lot out of what this new solution is capable of from the presentation.
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Using Pipelines for Administrators in Code Stream
Tech Field Day 19 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
It’s always a pleasure when Dan Frith comes to a Field Day event. Not only does he provide great articles going into detail about the presentations, but he also highlight and signal boosts writings by the other delegates. In this post, he shares posts from his fellow delegates from his most recent Tech Field Day event. Be sure to check it out for a lot of great writing.
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Tech Field Day 19 – Wrap-Up And Link-O-Rama
Veeam and the Art of the Portable
For Paul Stringfellow, Veeam has always been a company that has a way of making things “just work”. This has continued as their products have embraced the cloud. At Cloud Field Day earlier this year, the company discussed how they are bringing portability and mobility to cloud workloads. This doesn’t just include technical considerations, but goes down to changing how they license it as well.
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Veeam and the art of the portable
Cisco AI Network Analytics – Filtering Out the Noise With Machine Learning
At Cisco Live 2019 in San Diego, JP Vasseur, PhD and Cisco Fellow, introduced Cisco’s machine learning platform, which will provide insight via DNA Center Assurance, into how a network is expected to be operating as a baseline, and provide relevant alerts based on real network data, leveraging a massive data lake, and Cisco’s proven expertise in networking. Rob Coote got a deep dive on the platform at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019, and digs into it in this post.
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Cisco AI Network Analytics - Filtering Out the Noise with Machine Learning
The Briar Patch of Software Patches
Patching insecure software is usually the right answer, right? So why do we argue against it so much? Tom Hollingsworth discusses lessons learned from VMware’s recent Security Field Day presentation and how we could all be a bit better about patching if we just act like pirates.
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The Briar Patch of Software Patches
Modern Analytics Can Come From Anywhere
After seeing Cisco Meraki present at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019, Aaron Conaway considers the possibilities of being able to integrate cameras with systems like badge readers. This would allow for really extraordinary things like sending the security team a video of a developer trying to get places he should be going. Or, perhaps, the camera can be smart enough to know that an event is happening and do something about it.What if we looked at security cameras in a completely different light? What if the camera becomes something else? Enter the Cisco Meraki Motion Search 2.0 software features for MV cameras. This package takes video to another level for the second-generation MV cameras.
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