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.
You may say I’m a dreamer…
Al Rasheed has been to a few Field Day events stretching back into last year. For 2019, he’s very excited to see what’s on tap for Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe. He’ll be joining what he calls the “Dream Team” of delegates for the event (we’ll leave it to Al to tell us which one is Christian Laettner). He continues to be amazed at how participating in Field Day events has opened new doors and opportunities. We’re just glad to have such an insightful and knowledgable delegate around the table.
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Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 18
World traveler and storage guru Dan Frith will make his way from Down Under to join us for Storage Field Day in late February. While in Silicon Valley, he’ll get to hear from long time storage veterans like Western Digital and NetApp, along with disruptive startups like Cohesity, Datera, and WekaIO. Dan is no stranger to the event, and we’re looking forward to his thoughts on the presentations. Be sure to mark your calendar and watch along on our live stream!
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Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 18
Enable your Data: Komprise
At Storage Field Day late last year, Arjan Timmerman got to see Komprise show off their data management solution. For Arjan, it was important to position this as an important difference between data management and what has become the secondary storage market. What Arjan saw was a very thoughtful software solution that enables organizations to transform their data without disrupting existing hardware or operations.
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Cisco SP Nails It at NFDx
John Herbert was at our Networking Field Day Exclusive event with Cisco’s Service Provider business unit this week, and he felt their presentations were excellent. They delved into segment routing, zero touch provisioning, OpenConfig support for their IOS XR platform, and more. If you want to catch all the technical deep dives, full video of the event has been posted. Check it out!
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Microsegmentation: Worth Implementing Over a Host-Based Firewall?
In this post, Ken Nalbone looks into VMware’s NSX microsegmentation implementation as they presented at Security Field Day. He looks at the benefits of that approach vs a more typical host-based firewall. He breaks down the performance, security, and governance advantages of using this hypervisor-based approach for modern enterprises.
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Microsegmentation: Worth Implementing Over a Host-Based Firewall?
Evaluate Before You Purchase- Especially For Enterprise Wi-Fi
Trusting the word of companies that want to sell you your enterprise Wi-Fi. Lee Badman breaks down all the promises that he’s heard in his purchasing travails, and what the truth often looks like. He recommends evaluating before you buy, and looking for companies willing to endure the scrutiny of events like Tech Field Day.
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Evaluate Before You Purchase- Especially For Enterprise Wi-Fi
BiB 068: Aporeto’s Identity Based Workload Segmentation
In this episode of the Briefings in Brief podcast, host Ethan Banks looks at what he heard from Aporeto at Security Field Day late last year. What he saw was far from another also-ran security startup. Aporeto distinguishes itself by looking at application security as separate from network security. They provide a cryptographic identifier to all hosts, containers, processes, functions, and users, which is used as the basis for a robust policy engine. This decoupling of network and workload security is key for a true defense-in-depth approach.
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BiB 068: Aporeto's Identity Based Workload Segmentation
Using Identity To Secure Workloads with Aporeto
Security issues with digital identity are only going to increase with time. At Security Field Day, Aporeto presented on how they help organizations manage this in a scalable way. Tom Hollingsworth looks how they offer digitally sign containers. This allows organizations to trust a workload, from which you can build robust policy automation around that foundation of trust.
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Using Identity To Secure Workloads with Aporeto
Security through Virtualization (brought to you by VMware)
Chris Grundemann got to hear from VMware at multiple events this year, bookending the year with at Networking Field Day in January and Security Field Day in December. They outlined their vision for a business network fabric that can connect all applications to users virtually with full visibility into endpoints and control over connections. The two presentations left Chris pretty excited with where VMware is heading right now.
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Security through Virtualization (brought to you by VMware)
Cisco SD-WAN: On-Ramp to the Cloud
Phil Gervasi always has his radar up to detect marketing FUD from IT companies. But at Networking Field Day last year, a lot of what he heard from Cisco about SD-WAN rang true. The category is hardly new, and Cisco’s acquisition of Viptela is 2017 validated it as an area of focus for the company. For Cisco, they tie mass SD-WAN adoption to cloud adoption, with an overall theme of how to on-ramp to and manage a multi-cloud topology. Phil runs through what they presented and how it enables that for organizations.
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Cisco SD-WAN: On-Ramp to the Cloud
Tech Field Day @ CiscoLive Europe 2019
Cisco Live Europe kicks off this month, and we’ll be in Barcelona with Tech Field Day Extra presentations. Joining us around the table will be Kim Pedersen. It’ll be interesting to get a first time delegate’s experience at the event.
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Tech Field Day @ CiscoLive Europe 2019
EP11 – Data Management with Komprise: Transformation without Disruption – with Krishna Subramanian
This episode of the TECHunplugged Podcast digs into one of the presenters from Storage Field Day last year, Komprise. Hosts Arjan Timmerman and Max Mortillaro both attended the event. They’re speaking with Komprise President and COO Krishna Subramanian about how the company helps organizations get the best value out of their file-based storage investments.
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EP11 – Data Management with Komprise: Transformation without Disruption – with Krishna Subramanian
My brain will be melting at Storage Field Day 18!
Storage Field Day is fast approaching in February, and we’ve already started to announce the presenting companies and invited delegates. We’re thrilled to have Jon Klaus returning to the event. He’s looking forward to what should prove to be a packed event, with stalwarts like Cohesity, WekaIO and Western Digital all making returns. We’ll be posting more delegates and companies as we get closer to the event. Stay tuned!
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My brain will be melting at Storage Field Day 18!
Aruba and the Need for WPA3 with OWE
At Security Field Day, Aruba did a deep dive into a key feature of WPA3. Aruba had a lot of input into the successor to the long in the tooth WPA2, and detailed the optional Opportunistic Wireless encryption in the standard. This provides encryption for open wireless networks for information passed in the clear outside of the application payload. Tom Hollingsworth makes the argument that this should be a mandatory part of the standard, providing true defense in depth for traffic that falls outside SSL/TLS.
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Aruba and the Need for WPA3 with OWE
Visual Networking At It’s Finest with Apstra
Apstra is no stranger to Networking Field Day, and it was great to see the company present at our most recent event in November. Tom Hollingsworth organized the event, and got a first hand look at the latest from this innovative company. What stood out for Tom this time was the key work Apstra is doing in network visualization. The advent of intent-based networking means that operators now have direct visibility into all devices in their control zones. Apstra not only innovates in their area of intent, but finding ways to visualize and break down this information into meaningful insights.
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Visual Networking At It’s Finest with Apstra
Enterprise Secrets + Privileged Account Management
It was great to have Jeff Wilson along as a delegate for our inaugural Security Field Day event this past December. He’s knows the pains associated with managing enterprise privileged accounts. Given the number of hacks in 2018, it’s definitely top of mind for any security professional. That’s why Jeff found CyberArk’s presentation so interesting. He found their Privileged Access Security Suite remarkably mature and refined, which is no surprise given their 20 year history in the space. They provide a solution for a key problem most IT teams don’t know they have: Security and technical debt from years of tactical, rather than strategic, IT investments.
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Enterprise Secrets + Privileged Account Management
New Year, New Post, NFDx!
John Herbert is back on the blogging path in early 2019 and he’s excited! He’ll be starting off the year with a Networking Field Day Exclusive from Cisco’s Service Provider group. You can watch the event along with John on January 15th, or check out his coverage of what he saw afterward. We’re looking forward to both!
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The Power of a Great Demo with Illumio
It’s one thing to have a great Tech Field Day presentation, filled with technical overviews, architectural deep dives, and a killer slide deck. But putting together a great demo is a different beast. Tom Hollingsworth got to see a demo from Illumio at Networking Field Day last year that definitely left an impression. They showed off their new PCE Supercluster, and simulated a truly impressive amount of real workloads to truly show off its capabilities.
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The Power of a Great Demo with Illumio
Security Field Day @San Jose
We were fortunate to have Enrico Sorge along as a delegate for our inaugural Security Field Day event. In this post, he previews some of his coverage to come about the individual presentation. The Field Day experience is definitely unique, as Enrico found as they hopped around Silicon Valley in a limo. But most importantly, he found the event to be a valuable melting pot of ideas from delegates and presenting companies alike. We can’t wait to read more of his impressions about the presenters!
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The Flux Reactor
Al Rasheed wrote up his thoughts on Kentik’s presentation from Networking Field Day late last year. The company offers full resolution of network traffic, with the goal of providing network administrators enriched data that’s easy to understand. They’ve found use cases with network performance, congestion, security, DDOS detection and forensics. Al was particularly impressed by some of the tools Kentik provides for service providers, which enriches data from multiple sources via API and pairs it with routing table data live.
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