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.
CTS 184: Cisco @ Mobility Field Day 4
François Vergès joined us a Mobility Field Day this year, and seemed to really find a lot of interesting content. In this episode of the Clear to Send podcast, he reviews what Cisco presented at the event. They showed off their new Catalyst wireless routers and APs, which run IOS-XE. They also gave details on their latest IoT and OpenRoaming offerings. Be sure to listen to the podcast for all the details.
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CTS 184: Cisco @ Mobility Field Day 4
Pure Accelerate 2019: What I’m Hoping to See
Matthew Leib is a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares his thoughts about what he wants to see at the event. Follow Matthew’s series to learn more about Storage Field Day.
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Pure Accelerate 2019: What I’m Hoping to See
We’re Not Here to Talk About Storage!
At NetApp’s Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019 presentation, Andy Banta wanted to…not talk about storage. Al Rasheed was a delegate at the presentation, and he heard Andy discuss Enhanced Data Center Workloads. This started with a look at the history of the data center, then got into modern considerations of allocating compute, memory, and storage resources.
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We’re not here to talk about Storage!
Mission: Project Pacific
At VMworld US 2019, VMware showed off Project Pacific, their integration of Kubernetes into vSphere. Al Rasheed was at the event, and attending VMware’s Tech Field Day Extra presentation there, where they got into a technical deep dive on Project Pacific. Be sure to check out his thoughts on this exciting move by the virtualization giant.
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Commvault Buys Hedvig for $225 Million to Take on Secondary Startups
In this post, Justin Warren gives another look at Commvault’s recent acquisition of Hedvig. Both companies are familiar to the Tech Field Day audience, having presented at past events. Justin thinks the acquisition provides a great exit for Hedvig on the business front. Whether it will pay off for Commvault will depend on how well it integrates Hedvig’s exciting software-defined storage platform.
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Commvault Buys Hedvig For $225 Million To Take On Secondary Startups
Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Morpheus Data and HashiCorp
Ned Bellavance will be joining us at Cloud Field Day later this month. To get ready, he’s looking at all of the announced presenters. In this post, he’s digging into Morpheus Data and HashiCorp. He looks at his own history with the two companies, what solutions they currently offer, and what he hopes to see from them at the event.
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Cloud Field Day 6 Prep – Morpheus Data and HashiCorp
Commvault Acquires Hedvig for $225M, What Should We Expect?
Commvault and Hedvig are no strangers to presenting at Tech Field Day. After the former bought the latter, Max Mortillaro considers what to expect from the acquisition. Max breaks down Hedvig’s software-defined storage stack, which offers hardware agnostic block, file and object storage support across private and public clouds, designed for massive scale. This appears to be a solid technological acquisition and should allow Commvault to continue to expand the scope of their business.
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Commvault Acquires Hedvig For $225M, What Should We Expect?
Pure-Ly My Pre-Attendance Thoughts for Accelerate
Writer and Technologist, Becky Elliott, shares her anticipation about Pure Accelerate 2019. As a delegate and active community member, Becky explains why this is a FOMO-inducing event for her, as she covers her pre-attendance hopes, thoughts, and expectations of this year’s Accelerate. Follow Becky’s post series on Gestalt IT and on her blog.
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Pure-ly My Pre-Attendance Thoughts for Accelerate
VMware Entering the IT Infrastructure Composability Game
Enrico Signoretti found VMworld US 2019 to be full of fascinating announcements. It showed VMware making serious inroads into composability for virtualized servers, with the ability to now virtualize GPUs over the network. Enrico sees this working similar to how VMware treats NVMe storage resources in vSphere and VSAN. He doesn’t see this completely disrupting the current composable infrastructure market, but its an important step for VMware. Be sure to check out all the video from Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019 for all the technical deep dives on this!
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VMware Entering the IT Infrastructure Composability Game
No FOMO Here: Watch Highlights From #MFD4
It was great to have Aruba presenting at Mobility Field Day this summer. They brought their usual wireless A game to the event with fascinating presentations and thoughtful demos. Be sure to check out the full video from their presentation to get caught up!
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No FOMO Here: Watch Highlights from #MFD4
Apstra’s VMworld US 2019 Experience
Apstra presented at Tech Field Day Extra at VMWorld US 2019 earlier this month. They are no stranger to the Field Day audience and delegates, having presented at several Networking Field Days in the past. In this post, Apstra’s Rami Rammaha reviews some of their announcements and highlights from the event and their presentation.
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Apstra’s VMworld US 2019 Experience
A Software First Approach
Tech Field Day delegate stalwart Al Rasheed heard an update from Apstra at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019. He was familiar with the company based on their prior presentation at Networking Field Day. They presented on how companies often take a hardware-first approach to infrastructure transformation. This locks them into specific solutions and reduces their agility long term. Apstra demonstrated why they advocate a software-first approach to infrastructure, one that gives organizations the most option to meet their business needs over time.
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VMware Project Pacific – First Impressions
VMware announced their plan to integrate container management into vSphere with Project Pacific at VMworld US 2019. Chris Evans got to hear more details about the thought behind the project during VMware’s Tech Field Day Extra presentations at the event. Be sure to check out his blog post with more thoughts on this ambitious effort.
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VMware Project Pacific - First Impressions
Random Short Take #21
Dan Frith shares another of his great lists of “short takes” on the news. This includes mention of the upcoming Pure Accelerate conference in Austin, which will include a Tech Field Day session, as well as coverage of the Commvault/Hedvig acquisition and VMworld’s Project Pacific launch.
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Is VMware Project Pacific ‘Kubernetes Done Right’ for the Enterprise?
Joep Piscaer got details about VMware’s Project Pacific at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2019. This is VMware’s effort to re-architect ESXi and vCenter to natively use the Kubernetes APIs to drive platform operations. After hearing the details Joep is definitely excited for the new solution, as its far more than a simple bolt on to add a Kubernetes checkbox. This is a major recognition on the part of VMware where they were lacking, and shows a clear technical roadmap how they can take the lead in managing Kubernetes like they have with VMs.
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Is VMware Project Pacific 'Kubernetes done right' for the enterprise?
Mist Systems Unveils an Environmental Sensor That Is Also a Wi-Fi 6 AP
At Mobility Field Day this summer Mist Systems, now part of Juniper Networks, showed off their latest AP43 access points, which now support Wi-Fi 6. This AP offers dual 5GHz capability, a 802.3bz NBASE-T port with 802.3bt power capabilities that pairs nicely with Mist’s own BLE sensor. They also contain sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and angle/orientation, adding environmental monitoring to their already extensive capabilities. Jonathan Davis breaks down the full capabilities in this post.
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Mist Systems Unveils an Environmental Sensor that is also a Wi-Fi 6 AP
MFD Series: Cisco’s Modular Approach for WLCs
Manon Lessard heard extensively from Cisco at Mobility Field Day. She focused on their IoT and wireless offerings in this post. At the event, they detailed their Catalyst 9800 series of controllers, all running on IOS XE. Because this code base is modular, different system components can be updated, allowing admins more control and stability, which hopefully means they update more often.
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MFD series: Cisco’s modular approach for WLCs
NetApp, Workloads, and Pizza
While attending VMworld US 2019, Dan Frith was able to attend some Tech Field Day Extra presentations going on at the event. One of them was from NetApp, a company Dan is well familiar with but one that never fails to have something new to show. During the presentation, NetApp’s Andy Banta presented on the future of the data center, which will involve persistent memory, microvisors, and more specialized cores. It gave Dan a lot to think about, be sure to check out his post for details.
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Metageek Plus/Pro and Rampart
Jake Snyder is a familiar face at Mobility Field Day and we were thrilled to have him return for our event over the summer. He’s been familiar with MetaGeek for a while, and had kind of wrote off their solutions set. But after seeing their presentation at Mobility Field Day, but was really impressed by the value of their Rampart tool as part of their Metageek Plus and Pro subscriptions. Be sure to check out the post for the details that changed Jake’s mind on the company.
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Pure Accelerate 2019: What I’m Hoping to See
Matthew Leib will be a delegate at Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019 in Austin, TX. In this post, he shares his thoughts as he anticipates the event. Follow Matthew’s series on Gestalt IT to learn more about Storage Field Day.
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