Datrium Delivers Data Mobility With Automatrix

In this piece, Chris Evans looks at how Datrium is taking the data mobility problem with their Automatrix solution, which they talked about during their recent Cloud Field Day presentation. If Automatrix can deliver the same data movement flexibility for containers that are being achieved for virtual machines, he sees it being an all-encompassing solution for data mobility.

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Datrium delivers data mobility with Automatrix

The Good, the Bad, and the Questionable: Acquisition Activities

There have been a number of notable acquisitions in IT recently, and Tom Hollingsworth breaks them down into the good, the bad, and the…questionable in this post. One of our upcoming presenters for Security Field Day, Palo Alto Networks, made what Tom thinks is a good move in acquiring Twistlock. This should provide them the talent and IP to offer container visibility solutions, which is needed to stay relevant in infrastructure security.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Questionable: Acquisition Activities

Meet Field Day Delegate – Evan Mintzer

Evan Mintzer is coming to Security Field Day, so check out this interview and get to know his background a bit! From learning BASIC on a Commodore PET to working as an Information Security Manager, Evan is a great addition to the Security Field Day delegate panel. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event.

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Evan Mintzer

Thoughts on Transitioning to Dell EMC Midrange.NEXT

In this post, Chris Evans looks at the history of Dell EMC’s mid-range storage offerings, and how it might position the company’s offering going forward. This includes a look at XtremIO and Unity, which Chris got to see at Storage Field Day a few years ago. Ultimately, whether updating an existing line or building from the ground up, there isn’t an obvious solution for Dell EMC.

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Thoughts on transitioning to Dell EMC Midrange.NEXT

Opengear Extends NetOps Functionality for Advanced Out-Of-Band Solutions Ahead of Cisco Live 2019

Opengear returns as a presenter this year at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019. Ahead of the event, they recently announced new features for their Lighthouse central management system aimed at providing the network edge the same kind of resilence available to the network core. We can’t wait to hear more about it during their presentation.

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Opengear Extends NetOps Functionality for Advanced Out-of-Band Solutions Ahead of Cisco Live 2019

Meet Field Day Delegate – Stephanie Ihezukwu

Stephanie Ihezukwu is one of the new delegates heading out to Security Field Day later this month. Be sure to check out this interview to get to know her a little better before the event. She talked about where she sees security going in the next few years, how she manages work/life balance, what she would do if she wasn’t in IT, and so much more. It was a great interview and we can’t wait to meet her at the event!

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Stephanie Ihezukwu

NetBeez Releases Integration With Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series at Cisco Live US 2019

NetBeez announced a new integration with Cisco Catalyst 9000 at Cisco Live US this week. NetBeez has long offered an interesting client-side networking monitoring solution, and this integration will simplify and accelerate sensor deployment. We’re looking forward to hearing NetBeez present at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019 to hear more about it.

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NetBeez releases integration with Cisco Catalyst 9000 series at Cisco Live US 2019

Tech Field Day Extra With Liqid and Kemp

At Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World, the delegates got to hear from both Kemp and Liqid. In this post, Adam Fisher digs into the details of both presentations. Liqid showed their composable infrastructure solution, based on connecting datacenter resources dynamically across a PCIe fabric. Adam thinks its fascinating tech, and Liqid’s focus on emerging fields like 5G and AI will allow them to mature the solution along with the applications. Kemp, a company familiar to Adam with their load balancing portfolio, discussed their solutions for improving application delivery. This included a high level overview of their architecture, and details about their new integration of Dell EMC and Elastic Cloud Storage. In the end, one of the thing that impressed Adam the most was how versatile Dell EMC has to be to meet the needs of these two different companies.

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Tech Field Day Extra with Liqid and Kemp

Meet Field Day Delegate: Nico Stein

While regular Field Day events are always special, it’s also great to get to do presentations at larger industry events. They don’t get much bigger than Cisco Live. In this post, we’re getting to know one of the new delegates coming to Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019, Nico Stein. Be sure to read it to find out how he went from editing autoexec.bat files to working in IT. We can’t wait to have him around the delegate table and to see what he thinks about the presentations.

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Meet Field Day Delegate: Nico Stein

Meet Field Day Delegate – Tricia Howard

Before you see her on the Security Field Day live stream, be sure to get to know Tricia Howard a little bit more in this post. She talks about getting into IT after starting with a degree in theatre arts, where she sees security going in the near future, and introduces us to Darth, the Pomsky. We can’t wait to hear what Tricia’s impression of the event are!

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Meet Field Day Delegate - Tricia Howard

How Datrium Deploys ControlShift Into the Cloud

Datrium returned to Field Day with a presentation at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. Joep Piscaer was one of the delegates at the event, and in this piece looks at the company’s Disaster Recovery runbook automation engine for virtualized workloads called ControlShift. Joep was impressed by how Datrium deploys the solution and reviews how to set up ControlShift in a customer AWS account.

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How Datrium deploys ControlShift into the cloud

Security Field Day 2

Andrew Mauro will be heading to the second annual Security Field Day event next month. In this post, he gives a little preview of what he’s expecting to see. There is a full roster of announced presenters, so it’ll be a busy few days. We’re looking forward to getting Andrew’s perspective on the presentations with his deep infrastructure expertise. Be sure to mark your calendar and watch along on the live stream.

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Security Field Day 2

Avoiding Automation Archipelagos With Extreme Networks

When it’s your turn to build the automation strategy for your environment, make sure you don’t fall into the trap of building a series of automation islands with no integration. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at some recent announcements that Extreme Networks made at Networking Field Day and how they can help you connect your automation archipelago.

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Avoiding Automation Archipelagos with Extreme Networks

Fluid SDDC With Liqid and Dell EMC

Andrew Mauro attended Tech Field Day Extra presentations at Dell Technologies World last month. One of the presentations was by the composable infrastructure company Liqid. They recently announced a OEM deal with Dell EMC, so it was appropriate timing. In the post, Andrew looks at how Liqid interconnects compute, networking, storage, GPU, FPGA, and Optane resources intelligently over fabric to deliver dynamically-configurable bare-metal servers with the exact resources needed in the moment.

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Fluid SDDC with Liqid and Dell EMC

Going Cloud Native With Pure Storage Purity

Ned Bellavance saw a presentation from Pure Storage while a delegate at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. Ned always gets a little wary when a traditional storage company starts talking about the cloud, but Pure made solid points by saying their approach was to bring consumption based pricing, elastic capacity, and API driven interactions to their solution. They showed off Cloud Snap and Cloud Block Store as examples of this approach. Overall Ned found the presentation exciting and thinks for existing on-prem Pure customers, their cloud offerings are a no-brainer.

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Going Cloud Native with Pure Storage Purity

Dell Technologies World 2019 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama

Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World was full of excellent presentations and great conversations with the delegates. In this post, Dan Frith shares some of his final thoughts from the event, as well as sharing a lot of great resources and writings inspired by the event. Be sure to check out all the posts, as well as the full video of all the presenters.

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Dell Technologies World 2019 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama

Big Switch Are Bringing the Cloud to Your DC

We were happy to have Dan Frith along as a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World. One of the presenters at the even was Big Switch Networks. He was definitely impressed by Big Switch’s networking approach, with a focus on cloud-native and API integration front and center. For shops that have to demonstrate the value of any infrastructure investment, Dan thinks Big Switch offers an ideal solution.

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Big Switch Are Bringing The Cloud To Your DC

Liqid – Is Composable Hardware the Future of the Data Center?

Nathaniel Avery was a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World earlier this year, and got to hear from Liqid. In their latest presentation, the company showed off their composable infrastructure architecture. Given that the company just signed a partnership with Dell EMC, it put the presentation in a whole new light. Nathaniel’s background is in infrastructure architecture, and he was fascinated by some of the new IT use cases that might benefit by Liqid’s approach.

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Liqid - Is Composable Hardware the Future of the Data Center?

The Hidden Gem That Is StorPool

Chris Evans knows his storage. After seeing StorPool present at Storage Field Day, he considers them a hidden gem. They offer a high-performance scale-out block storage solution running on commodity hardware and Linux. Using their self-developed on disk-formats, inter-node protocols and cluster management, StorPool was able to offer the same performance as Microsoft’s HCI specification, without the need for a costly NVDIMM cache or RDMA. Chris thinks they have a very interesting solution for the right customer.

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The Hidden Gem that is StorPool

Datrium’s Multi-Cloud Vision Is All About Consistency

As interest in hybrid and mutli-cloud operation models increases in the enterprise, a recurring theme has been emerging. Consistency is key. Datrium wants to provide the consistency that allows enterprise customers to select the public cloud of their choice and maintain the same tools and knowledge. Ken Nalbone saw the company present at Cloud Field Day, and thinks they are likely betting on VMware being the common platform across multiple clouds and that the ability for enterprises to move their applications without refactoring will be the preferred path to the cloud for many enterprise customers.

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Datrium's Multi-Cloud Vision is All About Consistency