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.
Gestalt IT Live Blog – Aruba HER Keynote Address
Mobility Field Day Exclusive delegate Zoë Rose presented the keynote at the excellent Aruba HER at Atmosphere 2019. Our own Tom Hollingsworth and Kori Younger live blogged the entire event, be sure to check it out for a truly thoughtful and personal journey. She discusses surviving abuse, how professional and personal progress can differ, and more.
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Gestalt IT Live Blog - Aruba HER Keynote Address
Meet Field Day Delegate – Adam Post
We consciously work to make sure that we invite new delegate voices to all our events, and Cloud Field Day is no exception. Adam Post will be joining us for the first time at the event. Before you hear him around the table, be sure to read Gestalt IT’s profile of him to find out how he got into IT, where he sees IT going in the near term, and what the biggest challenges facing the industry are.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Adam Post
Intel – Putting Substance Behind Its Strategy Slideware
Intel’s recent swath of announcements from its Data Centric Innovation Day marked a bit of a culmination in messaging for Kurt Marko. This sees Intel no longer concerned about talking to the general public, and the event showed them talking directly to cloud builders and enterprise IT. The announcement of 2nd generation Scalable Xeon processors and Optane DC both highlight that servers are the core of Intel’s business, with further announcements aiming to make them core to many existing and emerging datacenter categories. You can find more detail in the presentation from Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day.
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Intel - putting substance behind its strategy slideware
BLOG – NFD20 – Fortinet SDWAN
In this post, Rodrigo Rovere takes a look at what Fortinet presented at Networking Field Day earlier this year. He was interested in hearing about their SD-WAN solutions and how they would stand out in this quickly crowding market. Fortinet really focused their presentation on their security differentiation based around their Security Fabric. While Rodrigo wanted a little more detail on the SD-WAN specifics, he found it an interesting presentation nonetheless.
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Cloud Field Day – Sysdig
Ned Bellavance will be joining us at Cloud Field Day next week, but before he arrives, he’s doing his homework on the presenters. In this post, he’s taking a look at Sysdig. Ned was impressed by how succinctly the company states it’s mission: Monitor and secure containers across the entire software lifecycle. Of course the devil is in the details, and Ned is looking forward to a deep dive into how they are doing it at the event. Be sure to watch their presentation on our live stream to see for yourself.
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Nyansa Wants to Be the IoT Sheriff
Nyansa returned to Networking Field Day with their presentation earlier this year. At the event, they showed their solution for how to handle the proliferation of IoT devices in the enterprise. In this post, Stephen Foskett looks at how they inventory the devices, verify connectivity and performance, characterize their behavior, detect and secure unusual actions, and verify that mitigations are working.
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Nyansa Wants To Be the IoT Sheriff
Join Us for Cloud Field Day (#CFD5): VMware Cloud on AWS Unplugged
VMware’s Sonali Desai gives a preview of what to expect from the company at Cloud Field Day next week. They’ll be giving a deep dive into VMware Cloud on AWS and how it can help accelerate hybrid cloud migration. We’ll be live streaming all the presentations from the event, so be sure to mark your calendar to watch them all!
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Join us for Cloud Field Day (#CFD5): VMware Cloud on AWS Unplugged
Tracing Down a Root Cause With LightStep Tracing
Moving from monolithic apps toward microservices has sped development, but brought new complexities. LightStep showed off their LightStep [x]PM platform at Cloud Field Day last year, but this was targeted at large enterprises. With their recently released LightStep Tracing, the company is offering a SaaS solution that provides an easy on ramp into distributed tracing, without a completed setup process.
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Tracing Down a Root Cause with LightStep Tracing
Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day: A Live View
Scott Lowe attended Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day as a delegate, and live blogged all the announcements from Intel at the event. There were a lot of major announcements, with Intel showing seven new products, including CPUs, Optane memory, network adapters, and more.
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Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day: A Live View
Liveblog: Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day 2019
Aside from organizing Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day 2019, Stephen Foskett was also live blogging all the announcements from Intel. Be sure to check it out to get his thoughts on the 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processors, which now offer up to 56 cores in a single socket. There were also official releases for Optane DC, and the announcement of a whole new Intel FPGA family, Agilex. It was a packed presentation, so be sure to get caught up here.
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Liveblog: Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day 2019
Storage Field Day 18 – Wrap-Up and Link-O-Rama
It’s always a pleasure to have Dan Frith at an event, and the most recent Storage Field Day was no exception. As always Dan provides a comprehensive list of not just the posts he’s written, but those from all the other delegates as well. If you want to get caught up on all the delegates thoughts from the event, it’s a great place to start!
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Storage Field Day 18 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
The Foundation of the Future With Barefoot Networks
Tom Hollingsworth is impressed by some of the recent announcement from Barefoot Networks. The first was announced at OCP which saw new support for P4 and Tofino in the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. Then there was the company’s announced partnership with IP Infusion (another Networking Field Day presenter). Finally Barefoot announced partnerships with Xilinx and Kaloom to bring Tofino and P4 to their switching platforms. For Tom, this sets the company on a firm foundation for the future, one where they don’t try to bring customers to use cases that might not apply, but instead meet customers where they already are.
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The Foundation of The Future with Barefoot Networks
Developing Data Protection Solutions in the Era of Data Management
IBM returned to Storage Field Day this year, providing an update to the delegates on IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. In this context, Max Mortillaro provides some historical perspective on data protection and management, emphasizing that every organization is on a different path on the journey toward better data management. In this, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a laudable effort build from scratch to address modern data protection needs. While it may not be as feature rich as competing solutions, for those organizations with a strong history with IBM, it should serve them well as they navigate their own data management journey.
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Developing Data Protection Solutions in the Era of Data Management
Datera and the Rise of Enterprise Software-Defined Storage
In this post, Dan Frith takes a look at what Datera presented at Storage Field Day earlier this year. This isn’t the first time Dan has looked at their “Enterprise Software-Defined Storage” solutions, and he remains impressed how the company blends continuous optimization with high availability. This positions them as a unique value proposition in an otherwise crowded software-defined datacenter world. They seem to have the right blend of product and messaging to bridge the glacial inertia typical of enterprise storage with top-down management trying to move to the cloud.
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Datera and the Rise of Enterprise Software-Defined Storage
Fast Friday – Aruba Atmosphere 2019
Tom Hollingsworth is definitely excited for Aruba Atmosphere 2019. First, there will be a great Mobility Field Day Exclusive at the event. But he’s also interested to hear about how Aruba is innovating around IoT networking, discussions with the OpenConfig community, and seeing Security Field Day delegate Zoë Rose keynote the Aruba HER session.
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Fast Friday – Aruba Atmosphere 2019
Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day
Al Rasheed will join the delegates ranks again for a very exciting event, Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. We’re all excited to hear what Intel will be talking about at the event. We’ve got a live stream and Gestalt IT will be live blogging everything, so be sure to join us for the event.
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Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day
Cloud Field Day – Kemp
Hard to believe, but Cloud Field Day is coming up next week. Among the delegates, we’re thrilled to have Ned Bellavance returning to the event. One of the companies he’ll get to hear from is Kemp Technologies. Ned first came across this company a while ago on a client site, and has kept up with the company as they’ve transition into cloud-focused solutions. He looking forward to finding out how the company plans to support cloud native applications, Kubernetes and container integrations, and how the company is capturing metrics in the cloud. Sounds like it should make for an excellent dialogue during the presentation.
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Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day
Nathaniel Avery will be a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. While Intel has put out some releases regarding the event, a bit of a mystery still remains. Nathaniel is looking forward to getting some more details at the event. You can watch along on the live stream to get the full details with Nathaniel!
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Tech Field Day Exclusive At Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day
Cloud Field Day – Datrium
Ned Bellavance is nothing if not diligent, doing research on the presenting companies before heading out to Silicon Valley. In this post, he’s giving Datrium a closer look. He looks at the companies major products including On-Prem DVX, Cloud DVX, and CloudShift. The latter really piqued his interest with it’s DR as a Service approach. He’s got questions about cloud exclusivity, recovery outside of VMC, and container workloads that he’s looking foward to asking at the event.
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Meet the #ATM19 Influencers: Richard McIntosh
This post features Aruba’s Jamie Easley interviewing Richard McIntosh about attending Atmosphere 2019. They talk about the unique community at the event, the pros and cons of coming to Vegas, and what he’s expecting to emerge in networking this year. We’re excited to have Richard as a delegate for Mobility Field Day Exclusive at Aruba Atmosphere 2019.
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