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.
The Future of Networking: Bringing Developer, Network and Security Admins Together!
Networking is coming! And Future:NET Is coming to San Francisco to celebrate its 4th Year! In this post, Christopher Kusek makes the case why this should be an event added to your IT roster. Future:NET stands out because presentations can come from anywhere within the IT stack from Developer, to Security or Network Admin to general practitioner IT Jack of all trades. He takes a look at what is on tap this year.
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The Future of Networking: Bringing Developer, Network and Security Admins Together!
Meet Field Day Delegate – Wences Michel
It’s not every day that you meet a mariachi singer at a tech conference, but that’s just what you’ll get with Wences Michel! Mel Zura spent some time getting to know him prior to our Tech Field Day Extra event at VMworld, and we think it’s worth your time too!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Wences Michel
Banyan and Zero Trust in a Post VPN World
At Security Field Day, Nate Avery heard from Banyan. They offer a VPN alternative built on the idea of bringing the least privilege access model to remote access. Instead of setting a list of patch requirements like older secure remote access solutions, Banyan uses reputation scores to determine worthiness of access, can work with mobile devices, and can continuously check the posture of a device. Nate think the security and efficiency implications of this might make it the approach to use in the future.
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Banyan And Zero Trust in a Post VPN World
Dreams, Hopes and Expectations on the Way to MFD4
Manon Lessard is at Mobility Field Day this week, her first time participating in the event as a delegate. In this post, she runs down how she got introduced to the Field Day events and community. It started by listening to the Packet Pushers podcast, and proceeded down a rabbit hole of blogs and other IT content. She runs down the presenters and technology she’s looking forward to seeing at the event. We can’t wait to hear her thoughts after she drinks from the Mobility Field Day fire hose!
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Dreams, hopes and expectations on the wa is at y to MFD4
Cohesity Looks to Exploit Secondary Data Value With MarketPlace
Since emerging as a secondary storage startup, Cohesity has continued to innovate in how to deliver the full value of data to their customers. In this post, Chris Evans looks at the latest implementation of that approach with Cohesity MarketPlace. This firmly moves the company into the data management sphere, with the ability to run AI/ML, analytics or other data-intensive applications on content stored in the Cohesity DataPlatform.
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Cohesity looks to exploit secondary data value with MarketPlace
Stopping Network Blame With Kemp
How does you load balancing solution stack up? Do you blame the network when everything goes down? Or does the cloud make you anxious? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Kemp and how their per-application solution can give you peace of mind and how it can be used in practical application with offerings demonstrated at Networking Field Day earlier this year.
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Stopping Network Blame with Kemp
Rooted in Security With Banyan
Any security solution you deploy today needs strong roots. But what if you need it to be distributed? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at what Bayan Security presented at Security Field Day and discusses how they can build a strong root of zero trust just like their namesake tree does.
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Rooted In Security with Banyan
Fun Forecasted at VMworld
One of Becky Elliott’s favorite things about a big conference like VMworld US is being surrounded by inspiring people with a shared interest and expertise. One part of that even will be Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US. There Becky will not only be surrounded by inspiring people, but she’ll get to hear in-depth technical presentations and create meaningul conversations around it. We can’t wait to see her there.
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128 Technology Takes a Unique Approach to Routing. Should You Care?
128 Technology has a a clever software router that takes a unique approach to getting your traffic from source to destination. In this piece, Drew Conry-Murray points out that what they offer sounds a lot like a SD-WAN solution. But 128T wants that to be part of their overall router, not a product in and of itself. He thinks the company has good ideas of approaching routing differently. The challenge is how to communicate the benefit of that to customers that are more familiar with traditional solutions.
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128 Technology Takes A Unique Approach To Routing. Should You Care?
Pure Storage Accelerate 2019 – Everything’s Faster in Texas
Max Mortillaro is heading out to Pure Accelerate next month, and he’s looking forward to the Tech Field Day Exclusive event presentations happening there as well. In this post, he runs down some of the exciting updates he’s expecting at the event, including DirectFlash Fabric, and the keynote from astronaut Leland Melvin.
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Pure Storage Accelerate 2019 - Everything's Faster in Texas
Say Hello to NetAlly- A New Old Friend
The secret company is one of the most anticipated parts of a future Field Day event. Mobility Field Day was no exception. But now the cat is out of the bag, and we know that the newly spun off NetAlly will be a presenter. Lee Badman looks at what this new, more focused, company with an extensive analysis and tools portfolio might present.
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Say Hello to NetAlly- a New Old Friend
Meet Field Day Delegate – Jennifer (“JJ”) Minella
Mobility Field Day has a lot of new faces around the delegate table, including Jennifer Minella. We got to know her a little better in this interview before the event. Be sure to check it out and look for JJ on the event live stream!
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Jennifer ("JJ") Minella
Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Haydn Andrews
In between designing networks for the Australian Army, the Northern Territory government, universities and retailers, Haydn Andrews made time to come out as a delegate for Mobility Field Day. This interview with Aruba digs into his background, how the industry can encourage more people to get into STEM, and how the advent of 5G will impact mobility.
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Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Haydn Andrews
Meet Field Day Delegate – Timothy Dennehy
Tim Dennehy is a first time delegate for Mobility Field Day, so we decided to get to know him a little better. In this interview, we found out how high school typing class got him into programming, and from there into the Navy and IT. He has a lot of great perspective over his career, and we can’t wait to hear that insight during the Mobility Field Day presentations.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Timothy Dennehy
Meet Field Day Delegate – François Vergès
The team at Gestalt IT decided to interview a first time delegate at Mobility Field Day, François Vergès. They discussed how he got into tech and IT, what was his first computer, and what are the current biggest challenges in IT.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - François Vergès
Meet Field Day Delegate – Haydn Andrews
It’s always important to get new voices and faces around the table for our delegates at Field Day events. This year at Mobility Field Day, we have a number of new people attending, including Haydn Andrews. In this interview with Gestalt IT, they dig into his background and IT outlook to better inform where he’s coming from during the company presentations.
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Meet Field Day Delegate - Haydn Andrews
The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay – Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
This episode of the Contention Window sees hosts Scott Lester and Tauni Odia talking with Mobility Field Day organizer Tom Hollingsworth and Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett. They’re talking about the upcoming Mobility Field Day event and the overall background of the event series.
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The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay - Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
Mobility Field Day 4 – Here I Come
In this post, Haydn Andrews give a preview of what he’s looking forward to at Mobility Field Day this week. He wrote the post just before hopping on a plane for a 15 hour ride across the ocean, so we hope he gets a lot out of it. Be sure to tune into the live stream to watch along with Haydn during the entire event.
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Mobility Field Day 4 – Here I Come
Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Tim Dennehy
Tim Dennehy is heading out to Mobility Field Day this week, his first event around the delegate table. In this interview with Aruba, he discusses why he loves wireless, how to encourage people to get into STEM, and how he ended up being selected as a Field Day delegate.
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Meet the #MFD4 Delegates: Tim Dennehy
Another Mobility Field Day Is Here. Is It Anything to Get Excited About?
You can always count on Drew Lentz for two things: deep insight into the wireless space and a strong GIF game. He delivers both in this post, looking at what he’s expecting from Mobility Field Day. The key for Drew is to keep the focus on new technology, rather than talking about big announcements from last year. He’s also interested in who the mystery company will be! Be sure to watch along on the live stream to see for yourself.
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Another Mobility Field Day is here. Is it anything to get excited about?