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.
Who Do You Trust in Your Community?
At Security Field Day, Ethan Banks led an Ignite Talk about building community. It’s something he has a lot of experience with as a co-founder of Packet Pushers. For Ethan, the journey to changing fans and viewers into a larger community must be built on a foundation of trust.
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Who Do You Trust In Your Community?
Modernizing Data Protection for a Digitally Driven World
IBM has now presented at a couple of Storage Field Day events. The company has a long legacy in IT, but a lot of delegates and viewers were wondering how they would position themselves in the modern data center. Alicia Blessing looks at what they presented with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. This is built from the ground up to provide modern data protection.
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Modernizing Data Protection for a Digitally Driven World
Dell – Dell Technologies World 2019 – See You Soon Las Vegas
If there’s an event that will talk about storage, it’s always a good idea to have Dan Frith there. That’s why we’re thrilled to have him along as a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World. He’s looking forward to seeing what announcements Dell EMC has on tap for the event.
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Dell – Dell Technologies World 2019 – See You Soon Las Vegas
Intel Answering SAP HANA’s Tough Questions
Intel’s Optane DC Persistent memory was one of the highlight announcements from Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. On a technical level, bit-addressable NAND flash is interesting, but what does that do for business? Keith Townsend uses the example of the in-memory database SAP HANA. Setting up a data warehouse allowed an organization to ask even more of their data, which in turn led to further memory bottlenecks. Intel’s DC Persistent memory creates the infrastructure to answer these bottlenecks and provide the next generation of business insights. For Keith, this wasn’t about allowing us to do more things today, but about fundamentally allowing us to do what we want to do tomorrow.
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Intel Answering SAP HANA's Tough Questions
The Faster the Better
We had an all-star panel of delegates at Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day, so of course Al Rasheed was there. The event proved to be packed with new announcements from Intel, from Optane memory, to scalable Xeons, new FPGAs and more. This post provides some photos and thoughts on the Intel keynote. For more deep dives, be sure to check out the videos from the Tech Field Day presentations Intel gave to our delegates.
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Data Center Optanization!
Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day had a lot of innovative content. In this post, Enrico Signoretti discusses what Intel showed about their latest generation Optane which comes in a new form factor, Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM. This works in conjunction with DDR4 DRAM DIMMs to provide much more density at a slightly slower speed. This trade off is easily worth it for Enrico as it puts the data much closer to the CPU. Any application that relies on large amounts of RAM will see a benefit. The only limitation is the hardware support from Intel, which will grow over time. Be sure to check out the full article for an even deeper dive into this new Optane implementation.
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OpenConfig and Wi-Fi – the Winning Combo
Tom Hollingsworth moderated a panel during Mobility Field Day Exclusive at Aruba Atmosphere 2019, where the delegates talked about OpenConfig. Tom had some thoughts on the topic that he didn’t get to share during the event, so this blog post goes into a little more detail. For Tom, OpenConfig’s use of common YANG data models is a huge win for organizations and wireless professionals. Be sure to check out the full post to understand why.
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OpenConfig and Wi-Fi – The Winning Combo
NGINX on a Floppy
The humble floppy disk hasn’t been relevant for a few decades, but that didn’t stop NGINX from grabbing some dongles and showing off what they can do with 1.4MB of storage. They were able to run a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and content cache off the disk. If you want to see what they had in store for the Cloud Field Day delegates, be sure to check out the full edited video of their presentation.
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Heading to Cloud Field Day 5
Chris Porter is at Cloud Field Day this week, a return appearance after being on hand for the event last year. He’s looking forward to hearing what all the presenters have in store, particularly Sysdig and Nginx given his background with containers. Rubrik will be a returning presenter for Chris. He also highlights what he’s interested in from Pure Storage, VMware and Veeam. The Cloud Field Day informational firehose can be intense, but it looks like Chris is up to the challenge again.
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Cloud Field Day 5
At Cloud Field Day, Jason Benedicic is joining us as a delegate. He’s had a taste of the Field Day experience Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight, but this will be his first time drinking from the informational firehose of the full event. It’s always a pleasure to bring in new voices from the community, and we can’t wait to hear about Jason’s experience at the event. Be sure to watch full video of all the Cloud Field Day presentations to get the same experience.
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Heading to Cloud Field Day 5
Veeam is no stranger to the Field Day audience, but this was Anthony Spiteri first presentation at Cloud Field Day for the company. It’s always interesting to get the perspective of the presenters at these event. They have to communicate with our panel of IT delegates, being comfortable with their material while also prepared for the delegates incisive questions. Be sure to watch the full video of Veeam’s presentation to see the entire technical deep dive.
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Cloud Field Day 5
Al Rasheed joins us as a delegate at Cloud Field Day this week, and we’re thrilled to have him back at an event. He always brings a thoughtful perspective to the presentations and we can’t wait to hear what he thinks after the event. Be sure to follow along on our live stream and use #CFD5 on Twitter to follow along with Al throughout the event.
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Cloud Field Day – VMware
Ned Bellavance is joining us as a delegate again at Cloud Field Day this week. He’s published a series of posts looking at each of the presenters, and in this one he casts his gaze toward VMware. Their presentation will focus on VMware on AWS, something Ned has been skeptical about since it launched. He still thinks its a viable, and in some cases appropriate, solution for some organizations. We’ll see if their presentation can change his mind.
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Join Us for Cloud Field Day (#CFD5): VMware Cloud on AWS Unplugged
VMware is presenting this week at Cloud Field Day, and Sonali Desai has a post on their blog previewing what they’ll be discussing with the delegates. The presentation should provide a deep dive into VMware Cloud on AWS, with dedicated parts looking at compute, networking and storage. Tune in to get a deep dive along with some demos.
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Join us for Cloud Field Day (#CFD5): VMware Cloud on AWS Unplugged
Intel Announces Cascade Lake Xeon, Optane DC Persistent, Ethernet 800, and More at Data Centric Innovation Day
Jeffrey Powers was one of the delegates at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. In this post, he looks at all the Intel announcements at the event. The 2nd generation Scalable Xeons, now with up to 56 cores, certainly made an impression, but were hardly the only highlight. Intel Optane DC, the 100Gb 800-series Ethernet controller, and more showed that Intel was focusing on faster processing, better control of memory, low latency delivery, and security of your data.
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We Got to Keep More Data
As a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day, Chin-Fah Heoh got to hear a startling estimate from Intel, that only about 2% of data worldwide is analyzed. For Chin-Fah, data analytics is a competitive edge, so keeping and analyzing more data is essential for any business. In this post, he looks at what Intel presented at the event that can help organizations achieve this goal.
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Using Machine Learning for IoT Security: NFD20 Demo
In this post, Bettina Baumgart from Extreme Networks outlines what the company presented at Networking Field Day earlier this year. Their message was based around using ML-driven security analytics and automated threat response for IoT to meet the rapidly changing IT landscape. The had an extensive demo showing just what is possible on their platform, so check out the post for the full technical deep dive.
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Using Machine Learning for IoT Security: NFD20 Demo
A VAST-ly Different Storage Story
VAST Data made their first big public splash since coming out of stealth at Storage Field Day last month. At they event, they showed off their “disaggregated share everything architecture” meant to offer hyperscaler agility and scalability without the cost and data gravity of the public cloud. For Becky Elliott, their message of reducing complexity while allowing for scale really resonated.
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A VAST-ly Different Storage Story
It Is Time for Cloud Field Day 5
Cloud Field Day is coming up next week. It’ll be a packed event full of interesting presentations from leading cloud companies. Brandon Graves will be one of the delegates around the table, so be sure to follow him and #CFD5 on Twitter to stay up to date on all the latest. We’ll be live streaming the presentations as well, so there’s no reason not to follow along with Brandon.
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It Is Time For Cloud Field Day 5
Intel Data Centric Business Overview
Intel presented a lot of things at their Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Keith Townsend got to hear about it in a lot of details as a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. But after marveling at a lot of the technical speeds and feeds, Keith looks at why customers and enterprises should care and how it will ultimately impact business.
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