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.
Smells Like Pure Spirit: Accelerate Post-Attendance Thoughts
Writer and Technologist, Becky Elliott, reflects on her experience at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019. Follow Becky’s post series on Gestalt IT and her blog for further installments.
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Smells Like Pure Spirit: Accelerate Post-Attendance Thoughts
Bringing a Butter Knife to a Screwdriver Party: Three Network Automation Tools From NFD21…Just for Fun.
At our recently Networking Field Day, Micheline Murphy got to hear from three different companies with different approaches to network automation. In this post, she breaks down what she heard from Forward Networks, Aruba Networks, and NetworkToCode.
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NFD21 | NetworkToCode
Jeremy Schulman has a long history with network automation, so he was excited to hear from NetworkToCode at Networking Field Day. He was really intrigued by their distinction of network automation strategy, from those building a platform to those investing in power tools. This is an important decision for any organization and one that the company astutely identified.
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CFD6 – Hashicorp
Larry Smith was very excited to hear from HashiCorp at Cloud Field Day. As a stalwart in the open-source world, Larry had a lot of interest in what they would talk about. They spent their time doing a deep dive into Consul, a set of tools around service mesh. There was a lot to go over so be sure to read the whole piece, then check out the videos from the presentation.
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Brainy Commvault
It’s no secret that a lot of storage companies are suddenly rebranding as data management companies. But how do you go beyond a rebrand and actually make substantive change to a large organization. Commvault shared their approach to managing this duality with a brain lateralization metaphor. Chin-Fah Heoh looks at if this answers his questions about why Commvault recently acquired Hedvig.
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Tech Field Day 20 – The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of Tech Field Day. As one of the first delegates at the first event, Greg Ferro shares his excitement at the anniversary, and shares a video of the closing speech from the event. While a lot in IT has changed in the last 10 years, it’s great to still have a lot of those first faces involved with the event.
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Tech Field Day 20 - The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
Commvault Go Day 2 Live Blog
If you need the TL;DR on the Day 2 Commvault GO keynote, be sure to check out the Gestalt IT live blog. They break down all the news and provide the analysis about how this will effect Commvault and their customers going forward.
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Malware Microsegmentation With Illumio
Are you worried that your patches are going to cause more problems than they solve? Wish you could just lock down the vulnerable systems until you know what’s going to happen? Tom Hollingsworth looks back at Illumio’s presentation during Security Field Day to see how microsegmentation can help you sleep soundly at night.
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Malware Microsegmentation with Illumio
Network Change Validation Meets Supersized Network Emulation
In this piece, Amy Arnold considers the classic problem of having to roll out large scale network changes when many engineers lack a full-scale lab to do comprehensive testing. This impacts organizations of all sizes, and can cause no end of headaches. At Networking Field Day, Tesuto made their debut presentation, showing how they leverage the cloud to perform large scale emulation of networks, while allowing engineers to leverage modern automation tools and testing.
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Network Change Validation Meets Supersized Network Emulation
Pure Accelerates With Direct Memory Module
Alastair Cooke, discusses the new tier of storage for the FlashArray//X, Direct Memory Module, which was announced during Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019.
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Pure Accelerates with Direct Memory Module
NetApp and the Cloud Conundrum
Ned Bellavance got to hear from NetApp at Cloud Field Day. Being traditionally thought of as a storage company, it might have struck some as a little odd to see them at the event. But Ned does a great job of breaking down the challenges the cloud has presented to a company like NetApp, and how the company’s strategy indicates they have a plan to stay relevant for a long time.
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NetApp and the Cloud Conundrum
Commvault Coming All Together
Chin-Fah Heoh was a man on a mission at Commvault GO. He went there looking for some answers about the company’s plans with their recently acquisition of Hedvig. In this piece, he discusses what he found out and breaks down all the other announcements. Being based in Malaysia, this piece provides a great lens to see a lot of the Commvault news from a different perspective. Be sure to check out all the technical sessions Chin-Fah and the other delegates saw at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019.
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How Do You Provision a 500-Switch Network in a Few Days?
One of the interesting aspects of a IT event the scale of Cisco Live is that it has its own unique set of IT challenges. During a behind the scenes tour during Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019, Ivan Pepelnjak got to ask how they created the network for the event in such a short amount of time. What he found was that provisioning a large campus network in a few days is easy and reliable as long as you do your homework and keep things as simple as possible.
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How Do You Provision a 500-Switch Network in a Few Days?
Right and Left Brain – Storage and Data Management
For Karen Lopez, in the rush for storage and backup companies to rebrand themselves as data management companies, they often forget that the messaging surrounding managing storage and managing data are very different from a customer perspective. At Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO, the company used the metaphor of brain lateralization to put it into perspective.
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Right and Left Brain – Storage and Data Management
Unpicking the Commvault Acquisition of Hedvig
Commvault and Hedvig were both familiar companies to the Tech Field Day community. So when the former bought the latter, we knew there would be some interesting insights from our delegates. In this post, Chris Evans breaks down how he sees Commvault integrating and augmenting much of what Hedvig offered.
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Unpicking the Commvault Acquisition of Hedvig
Master’s Lesson in IT Management
If you’re interesting in understand the IT challenges for large shop, Keith Townsend recommends checking out a video from Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. In it, the University of Leicester went into detail about migrating infrastructure with 20PB of data. There are a lot of challenges in this, regardless of the organization. We’re glad Keith found it interesting.
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Master’s Lesson in IT Management
HPE Storage at Nth Symposium 2019: What I Hope to See
Matt Leib has a long relationship with HPE, so he’s excited to be part of our special Tech Field Day Exclusive event with HPE Storage. Matt wants to learn more about Synergy, Cray, and the new Apollo computers for ML and AI. He also has questions about Multi-Cloud, Plexxi, Aruba, and much more besides. Being deeply into HPE, it will be interesting to see what he thinks of the new HPE Primera storage platform, cloud storage, and ML Ops. This special post at Gestalt IT is part of our Tech Talks series, which also features Becky Elliott.
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HPE Storage at Nth Symposium 2019: What I Hope to See
HPE: Let’s See! TFDx Pre-Attendance Thoughts
Becky Elliott is attending our special Tech Field Day Exclusive event with HPE Storage and is excited to learn more about the Primera storage platform and GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. She’s also wondering what HPE is doing with Cray, MapR, and BlueData. This special post at Gestalt IT is part of our Tech Talks series, which also features Matt Leib.
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HPE: Let’s See! TFDx Pre-Attendance Thoughts
Aruba SD-Branch – Evolution
Aruba is a familiar face at Networking Field Day, and at our most recent event thye did a deep dive into their latest with SD-Branch. In this post, Ed Horley breaks down how it offers a unified interface and flexible configuration to appeal to a lot of organizations.
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CommvaultGo 2019 Hot Take
Commvault announced a SaaS backup solution (Metallic) and went into a little detail about the acquisition of software-defined storage company Hedvig during Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019. Keith Townsend shares his impressions of the keynote in this video.
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