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.
Have You Heard About HER?
Claire Chaplais is an organizer for Mobility Field Day Exclusive at Aruba Atmosphere 2019. She doesn’t usually write about the experience, but had to share her excitement about the session “Experience the Power of Her”, featuring Zoë Rose. Zoë is a recent Security Field Day delegate and Claire is interested to hear her speak to the audience at the event.
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Meet the #ATM19 Influencers: Keith Parsons
Keith Parsons is definitely no stranger to the wireless community, so it’s not surprising to see him profiled by Aruba for their Meet the Influencers interview series. He talks about the best tech he’s ever bought, what he thinks the big thing in wireless will be in 2019, and career highlights. Be sure to catch Keith as a delegate on our live stream for Mobility Field Day Exclusive at Aruba Atmosphere 2019.
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Meet the #ATM19 Influencers: Keith Parsons
Meet Field Day Delegate – Alex Neihaus
There are a number of new delegates coming to Cloud Field Day next week, and we’re excited that Alex Neihaus is one of them. Before the event, be sure to get a little more detail about Alex’s background in this Meet the Delegates post from Gestalt IT. You can find out how Alex got started in IT, where he sees it going, even his first computer. It’s a great way to learn a little more about the faces around the delegate table at the event.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Alex Neihaus
Intel’s Crossover Point: A 3D Spork?
Stephen Foskett will definitely be watching what Intel is presenting at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. In this post, he looks at the current state of Intel Optane. After a blunted debut in a SSD format, the new DIMM form factor comes closer to what the promise of 3D Xpoint was initially. But for Stephen, it still seems stuck in an uncanny valley in the current classical computing model between storage and memory.
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Intel's Crossover Point: A 3D Spork?
Meet Field Day Delegate – Brian Gleason
We’re thrilled to have Brian Gleason joining us for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Before watching what Intel is presenting, be sure to get to know all the new faces around the table. Gestalt IT has been interviewing all our new delegates for the event, and Brian is no exception. Be sure to check out his interview to get some background, where he sees IT going in the near term, and what he does when he’s not working in IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Brian Gleason
Meet Field Day Delegate – David Ball
David Ball is heading to Cloud Field Day next week. It’s always great to bring new faces and perspectives to Field Day, and we can’t wait to hear what David thinks of the event. Before you see him around the delegate table, be sure to check out Mel Zura’s interview with him for Gestalt IT’s Meet the Delegates series. Find out how he got into IT, his first computer and more.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - David Ball
Meet Field Day Delegate – Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend is no stranger to Field Day. But after having a stint on the company side, he’s back on the independent analyst beat. Before he goes to our Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day, Mel Zura got to know him a little better for Gestalt IT’s Meet the Delegates series.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Keith Townsend
Meet Field Day Delegate – Denny Cherry
Denny Cherry is joining us for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. As a new delegate, Gestalt IT got to ask him to question to introduce him to the larger IT community. Find out how he got into IT, his first computer, and more.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Denny Cherry
Voices in Data Storage – Episode 11: A Conversation With Renen Hallak
This episode of Voices in Data Storage features an interview with VAST Data founder and CEO Renen Hallak. Host Enrico Signoretti saw VAST Data during their Storage Field Day presentation last month, and was impressed by what he saw. The company set out to “redo” storage, offering Tier 1 performance without the accompanying price tag. They discuss how emerging technologies like QLC flash and storage class memory are at the core of their new architecture.
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Voices in Data Storage – Episode 11: A Conversation with Renen Hallak
WekaIO Continues to Evolve
WekaIO definitely made an impression on the Storage Field Day delegates last month, and Dan Frith is no exception. In this post, he looks at WekaIO Matrix. This is a feature rich software-defined storage solution that can run across a breadth of environments, offering performance faster than a local system. The do this with a storage architecture built to take advantage of the native capabilities of flash, without worrying about legacy HDD. Dan thinks they made a compelling case to move people who need the performance of DAS with the benefits of distributed storage.
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Device Validation Security in Service Provider Networks
At Networking Field Day Exclusive with Cisco’s Service Provider, Cisco went into some detail about their approach to Service Provider Security. A lot of what they presented on comes from the company’s recent acquisition of Skyport Systems, another former Tech Field Day presenter. For Tom Hollingsworth, this brings in sophisticated tools around device validation and trust. This gives Cisco better tooling for SPs, where the network itself is the target, rather than just the data on it.
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Device Validation Security In Service Provider Networks
Cloud Field Day – Cohesity
Ned Bellavance is doing his research ahead of Cloud Field Day next month. In this post, he’s giving Cohesity a closer look. While many cloud folks might think of Cohesity as a backup or data management company, Ned makes the case why they are becoming a major data aggregator. This starts with something like backup, or perhaps managing secondary storage. But for Ned, now that the company has that data, why not index and do more with it, which is exactly the capability Cohesity is building out. He’s excited to see what the company will present at Cloud Field Day.
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VAST Data – No More Tiers Means No More Tears?
Dan Frith is shedding no tears for tiers after seeing VAST Data come out of stealth at Storage Field Day last month. Leveraging a greenfield architecture built around NVMe over fabric and Storage Class Memory, they claim to offer Tier 1 performance at scale without the actual cost of Tier 1 storage. Dan was definitely impressed by the ambition of their approach, and thinks their disaggregated share-everything approach to storage is impressive.
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VAST Data – No More Tiers Means No More Tears?
Tech Field Day Exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day
Matt Leib is looking forward to hearing from Intel at their Data-Centric Innovation Day. Although the content will be a surprise, he expects that it will be quite interesting!
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Tech Field Day exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day
Dell and the Power of Influencing Influencers
Chin-Fah, HEOH is very impressed by how Dell is handling influencer relations, and discusses his reaction to being invited to Dell Technologies World at the end of April. Chin-Fah has been a Field Day delegate as well and says their work with influencers reminds him of how we do things here at Gestalt IT. Thanks!
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Dell and the Power of Influencing Influencers
Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Arceneaux
We’re getting to know our new Field Day delegates! Mel Zura of Gestalt IT asked Chris Arceneaux about how he got into IT, what the future holds, and more. You’ll see Chris at Cloud Field Day 5 in April.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Chris Arceneaux
How To: Clone Windows 10 From SATA SSD to M.2 SSD (& Fix Inaccessible Boot Device)
Jon Klaus received a Western Digital Black SN750 M.2 SSD for testing at Storage Field Day. Naturally, he wanted to use this fast little NVMe drive as his Windows Boot disk. What he thought was going to be a simply clone and swap from an older SSD turned into anything but. If you’re considering swapping out a drive on an old Windows install, it’s a good idea to read Jon’s post to understand the UEFI vs BIOS when it comes to setting up boot drives. Who knew it could get so complicated?
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How To: Clone Windows 10 from SATA SSD to M.2 SSD (& fix inaccessible boot device)
Can the WekaIO Matrix File System Be Faster Than DAS?
Direct Attached Storage (DAS), offers a lot of advantages in terms of speed and latency, but comes with a suite of problems. If nothing else, it forces applications to deal with data integrity and resiliency issues instead of having it as part of SAN. Chris Evans looks at how WekaIO addresses the shortcomings of DAS while keeping the high-performance and low latency. At Storage Field Day last month, they showed how their scale-out parallel file system can provide exceptional performance that’s only limited by the bandwidth of the network card. By rewritting at the file system layer and lower, WekaIO is able to offer distributed storage built to take full advantage of modern storage media.
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Can the WekaIO Matrix file system be faster than DAS?
Drive Your Own Demo With Riverbed
As the organizer of Networking Field Day, and a former delegate himself, Tom Hollingsworth has seen his fair share of demos at our events. At last month’s event, Riverbed really stood out with how they presented their demo section. They opted for a “hands-on” demo, discussing with the delegates as they interacted with the product in real time. For Tom, it can be a risk proposition, but he thinks the benefits of seeing how people learn and build muscle memory in the application far out weights the potential pitfalls.
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Drive Your Own Demo with Riverbed
The Full Force of Western Digital
Chin-Fah Heoh saw Western Digital present at Storage Field Day over three weeks ago, and he’s still wrapping his head around everything he saw. That’s because the company offers an incredible breadth of solutions, being one of the rare “silicon to system” companies in IT. From updates to NAND flash to storage subsystems, what stood out was the shift in Western Digital from a company that just provides drives and storage, to one that’s thinking about how to solve customer’s big data and fast data problems.
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