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.
Policy Enforcement an End to End Game
Dominik Pickhardt was at Cisco Live Europe this year, where he was also a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra presentations at the event. During one of the sessions, he got a deep dive from Cisco on their policy offerings. This isn’t siloed to one product or service, but rather showed a consistent strategy across their entire portfolio. This allows for administrators to maintain scalable best practices as their infrastructure grows.
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Policy Enforcement an End to End Game
Podcast #3 – Chris & Matt Review the SFD18 Presenters
In this podcast episode, Chris Evan and Matt Leib did an off the cuff rundown of the Storage Field Day presenters. The event was jam packed with interesting IT companies, and the two do a great job of running through what stood out from Cohesity, Datera, IBM, NetApp, StorPool, VAST Data WekaIO and Western Digital.
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Podcast #3 - Chris & Matt review the SFD18 presenters
Fortinet SD-WAN at Network Field Day 20
Brian Gleason got to hear from Fortinet at Networking Field Day earlier this month. The timing couldn’t be better, as the company has achieved a bit of prominence due to the recent rash of massive security breaches. For Brian, solutions like Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer are critical for the complext task of monitoring and acting on attack signatures. In this post, he looks at the company’s overall architecture and digs into the technical details of how they provide solutions across SD-WAN, security, endpoint protection, WiFi, and switching.
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Fortinet SD-WAN At Network Field Day 20
Networking Field Day 20 Is Here
Snehal Patel joined us at Networking Field Day as one of our industry delegates. At the event, he got to hear from a jam packed selection of prominent networking companies and emerging startups. Be sure to check out our fully edited videos from each of presentations to see the same deep dives that Snehal did at the event.
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Networking Field Day 20 Is Here
NetApp Active IQ – A Logical Next Step in Maintenance
Nathaniel Avery wrote up his thoughts on NetApp’s Active IQ, something he saw quite a bit about at Tech Field Day earlier this month. This service offers configuration suggestions based on a massive dataset of anonymized data the company collects on deployments, which are then processed by machine learning algorithms to look for larger trends. Active IQ also lets customers compare configuration efficiencies with similar customers, which is key to making sure you’re getting the most for your money. Throwing around terms like ML made Nathaniel a little skeptical, but he came away impressed by the capabilities.
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NetApp Active IQ - A Logical Next Step in Maintenance
Vlog4 TFD
Keiran Shelden is back is balmy Australia and put together a vlog post reviewing what he saw from Tech Field Day earlier this month. He runs through a review of the event in general, and emphasizes the value in being able to have in-depth, direct, technical discussions with the presenting companies. This isn’t just a benefit to the delegates, but has meaningful value for the companies as well.
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Join Western Digital for Storage Field Day 18 on Feb 28th
Western Digital is a familiar name in the storage space, so it’s great to see them presenting again at Storage Field Day next week. You can watch their presentation on our live stream, where they’ll be talking about their NVMe SSDs, memory extension drives to NVMe-over-Fabric composable infrastructure, and enterprise NVMe all-flash arrays.
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Join Western Digital for Storage Field Day 18 on Feb 28th
Storage Field Day 18, Here I Come!
Paul Woodward is making the trip to Silicon Valley next week for Storage Field Day, his second full Field Day event. If you want to watch all the same presentations as Paul, be sure to stay glued to our live stream throughout the event. Plus, get involved with the conversation with #SFD18 on Twitter.
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Storage Field Day 18, Here I Come!
Kemp Technologies Adds Visibility, Predictive Analytics for Third-Party Load Balancers
Kemp Technologies has a long legacy in the load balancing market, but at Networking Field Day, they were showing off new features for Vison 360, their monitoring and analytics service. Drew Conry-Murray runs down what was presented in this piece. He particularly highlights the ability of this cloud service to ingest data from 3rd party load balancers. For Drew, this is key for Kemp to stay relevant in a rapidly changing market.
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Kemp Technologies Adds Visibility, Predictive Analytics For Third-Party Load Balancers
Network Field Day 20 Recap – Juniper’s Hedging Their Bets
Nick Shoemaker was impressed by the frankness that Juniper Networks presented with at Networking Field Day earlier this month. The company made a compelling case that network automation isn’t just a hip buzzword, it’s a vital skill that network engineers need to have right now. To that effect, Juniper showcased their EngNet community to provide resources to engineers learning about automation. This was further enforced by the Juniper NRE Labs platform, which is a browser-based way to test automation out.
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Network Field Day 20 Recap – Juniper’s Hedging Their Bets
NFD20 – Juniper
Networking Field Day saw the return of Juniper Networks as a presenting company. Rodrigo Rovere was a delegate at the event and found what he saw interesting. From a deep dive into their automation solutions, to a look at their EngNet community, it definitely had a lot to offer.
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A Packed Field Day
Enrico Signoretti is no stranger to the Field Day family, and he’ll be attending his first event of the year with Storage Field Day next week in Silicon Valley. He’s looking forward to the mix of storage industry stalwarts and intriguing startups that will be presenting, and finding out just who the secret company is. Be sure to tune into the live stream to find out for yourself.
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California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
Becky Elliott is returning to the delegate roundtable, coming to Storage Field Day out in Silicon Valley next week. At her third event, she’s looking forward to reconnecting with some fellow delegates, and getting deep dives from the presenting roster of companies. She’s even compiled all the past presentations by company if you want to do a little homework before next week. We can’t wait to hear what she thinks of this event!
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California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
PathSolutions Presents
Brian Gleason was a delegate at our recent Networking Field Day event. He and the other delegates got to hear from PathSolutions among the many presentations. Despite having a UI that could charitably called functional, Brian was impressed by what he saw from their TotalView monitoring solution. This looks at all interfaces on a network device and polls 19 interface counters to give a complete picture of health, and presents it in a logical layout.
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Network Break 222: SnapRoute Launches Network OS; Carbonite Buys Webroot
In this episode of Network Break, the podcast crew looks at SnapRoute’s CN-NOS Demonstration from Networking Field Day, which was previously profiled in their Briefings in Brief show as well. Be sure to give it a listen to get their take on the event.
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Network Break 222: SnapRoute Launches Network OS; Carbonite Buys Webroot
Datera and Modern Data Center
Marina Ferreira takes a look at the software-defined storage solution from Datera that was presented at Tech Field day earlier this month. What was interesting was the effort that Datera took in the presentation to show what their idea of a modern data center looked like. This was important to contextualize how Datera is serving this modern architecture.
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Juniper NRE LAB
Mario Gingras got a look at Juniper Networks’ NRE Lab at Networking Field Day. This software portal provides a way for network admins to learn device configuration automation without having to install or configure additional modules on your workstation.
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SolarWinds Takes on Security
Security might not be top of mind when thinking of SolarWinds, but after seeing their presentation at Tech Field Day, Nathaniel Avery is starting to consider them in a new light. They demoed their SolarWinds Access Rights Manage for Microsoft Active Directory, trying to solve the classic problems of account and permission management. Combined with their large existing customer base, and their consistent UI across products, Nathaniel thinks they can make an aggressive move into the security market going forward.
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Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!
Ken Nalbone wrote up an interesting post considering what he saw from VMware at Tech Field Day earlier this month. The company focused on how they can provide solutions for IT infrastructure beyond the travails of Day 0, into Day 1 and beyond. For Ken, this might not be the most exciting, but it’s probably more critical for organizations.
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Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!
A Day in the Life of a Packet
Al Rasheed is back with another excellent write up from a Field Day presentation, this time focusing on what he saw from Forward Networks at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe this year. The intent-based networking company focused on their Forward Enterprise tier on the presentation, showing use cases for Application Team Self-Service and Change Window Assistance. Al was really impressed by how well prepared the presenters are, and agrees with Ivan Pepelnjak that the presentation was “awesome”.
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