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.
Liqid to Bring Industry-Leading Composable Infrastructure Platform to Global Enterprises
We got a technical deep dive from Liqid during Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World. They showed off their architecture and implementation of their composable infrastructure vision. At the event, they also announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies OEM & IoT Solutions. This will use Dell’s PowerEdge portfolio to deliver Liqid’s software-defined, composable resource allocation solution. Be sure to watch their presentation video to see what they can do.
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Liqid to Bring Industry-leading Composable Infrastructure Platform to Global Enterprises
All-In With SD-WAN and Fortinet
Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the Fortinet presentation from Networking Field Day and discusses how ASICs may be the key to Foritinet finding their ante in the SD-WAN market. Can SD-WAN innovate through software alone? Or can custom hardware ASICs make the difference in performance? Tom discusses.
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All-in with SD-WAN and Fortinet
Dell Technologies World 2019 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
Dan Frith made another sojourn across the ocean to attend Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World. He got to hear presentations from Big Switch, Liqid, and Kemp. Be sure to watch all the presentations to get a sense of the event. In this post, Dan discloses where he went and what he had while attending the overall conference.
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Dell Technologies World 2019 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
VeeamON 2019
Al Rasheed is heading to VeeamON 2019 as part of the Veeam Vanguard Program and is excited to go. He’ll be particularly well prepared, as he got a technical deep dive from the company at Cloud Field Day last month. He’s looking forward to the networking and expertise at the conference. Be sure to get caught up with the company’s latest by watching their full presentation video.
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Liqid Enables Industry-First Unified Multi-Fabric Support for Composable Infrastructure
Liqid has been a company to watch in the emerging composable infrastructure market. They recently announced their new unified multi-fabric support for composability across all major fabric types, including PCIe Gen 3, PCIe Gen 4, Ethernet, and Infiniband. They recently presented on their managed fabric at length during Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World.
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Liqid Enables Industry-first Unified Multi-Fabric Support for Composable Infrastructure
Security Field Day – The Non-Conference
The Tech Field Day team started the Security Field Day event because they recognized that security is just as vital to IT operations as storage, networking, or virtualization. In this post, Tom Hollingsworth talks about how it distinguishes itself in the world of security event, by being the non-conference. That means no crowds, in-depth technical discussions, and live streamed for all to see.
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Security Field Day - The Non-Conference
It’s Your Data!
At Cloud Field Day, Al Rasheed got to hear a presentation from Veeam. The covered the dramatic business growth the company has seen over the last few years, which is a result of delivering on their core mission of simplicity, reliability, and flexibility for your data. The presentation focused on data portability in the cloud, always allowing organizations to access and use data that belongs to them. Al has another post coming on their presentation, so be sure to read all his thoughts in this piece.
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Cloud Field Day 2019 – It’s a Wrap
Datrium is no stranger to presenting at Field Day events, and it was great to have them at Cloud Field Day last month. By converging data services onto a single platform, they are able to offer simple, secure, consistent experience across their on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Their presentation focused specifically on how it can enable a true multi-cloud experience with sophisticated orchestration. Be sure to watch the full presentation video to get caught up.
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Cloud Field Day 2019 - It's a Wrap
Achieving Disaster Recovery SLAs in Minutes With Cohesity
Cohesity presented at Cloud Field Day last month, where the company announced workflows to leverage the Cohesity platform for disaster recovery. In this post, Jon Hildebrand digs into one of the options for the shortest recovery SLA option, Failover/Failback. He gives in overview of how this is handled on the platform, and how it enables a much more simplified DR method.
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Achieving Disaster Recovery SLAs in Minutes with Cohesity
Droplet Computing Product Walk Thru: Not Just Another Droplet in the Ocean
Michelle Laverick first saw Droplet Computing when they presented at Cloud Field Day last year. In this post, she walks through the experience of using their container-based technology, which allows applications to be installed “as-is” without special packaging. Running on an older MacBook, the overall performance was comparable to a local virtual machine in testing. For a 1.0 release, Michelle found it a robust solution.
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Droplet Computing Product Walk Thru: Not just another Droplet in the ocean
Layered Security Isn’t About Devices
Tom Hollingsworth got to hear an excellent Ignite Talk at Security Field Day from Wolfgang Goerlich, looking at what it really means to have defense in depth on a network. For Wolfgang, this is less about putting more appliances and services on the network. Instead, he suggests looking at it like a tower defense game, where the resources you have are only useful if you deploy them strategically.
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Layered Security Isn't About Devices
The Intel Event and What It Means for the Future
Nathaniel Avery attended Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day as a delegate for our Tech Field Day Exclusive. He not only got to hear all the big announcements from it, but see in-depth technical presentations as well. For Nathaniel, any one of the announcements would have been big news. By launching major new products and updates across compute, persistent storage, and networking, he sees it as a huge overall leap in server capability.
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The Intel Event and What it Means for the Future
Imposter Syndrome Alive and Well at Tech Field Day 19
Jim Palmer will be joining us next month for Tech Field Day and we can’t wait. One of the great things about Tech Field Day is it allows us to gather experts from across the various data center disciplines. This allows for conversations from various perspectives that are truly unique in IT. With Jim’s background in wireless, we can’t wait to see what he thinks of the presentations.
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Imposter Syndrome Alive and Well at Tech Field Day 19
Sysdig – Monitoring via eBPF
Sysdig recently presented at Cloud Field Day, and we were fortunate to have Ned Bellavance around the table as a delegate. Sysdig was founded by the co-author of Wireshark based on the idea that packet capture on the wire is dead. Sysdig instead aims to capture all traffic information from containers for analysis. They do this with a lightweight container on each host that can access a extended Berkeley Packet Filter running on the kernel. Ned found this a compelling architecture for the monitoring challenges that cloud-native applications introduce.
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Put All Your Data on Flash With VAST Data
Jon Klaus remembers when flash storage become affordable as a performance tier back in 2012. Since then, we’ve seen all-flash arrays becoming increasingly common, but the spinning disk remains for a variety of reasons. At Storage Field Day, VAST Data demoed how their novel architecture is designed to finally kill the spinning disk. They are able to do this by using cheap low endurance QLC flash, which doesn’t wear out quickly thanks to 3D Xpoint SSDs used as a write buffer. Jon runs through more fo the technical details of VAST’s approach, but he thinks its a radical rethink of storage based on the latest emerging technologies.
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Put all your data on flash with VAST Data
Datera and the Move Towards Software Defined Storage in the Enterprise
When discussing modern applications, infrastructure is often not given much though except to say that it should be easy to provision according to the needs of the application itself. Those who provide the infrastructure to applications developers and end users know this is no trivial task. Ken Nalbone looks at how Datera’s software defined storage platform helps bridge the this gap, which he got a close look at during Storage Field Day earlier this year.
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Datera and the Move Towards Software Defined Storage in the Enterprise
Defeating DDoS in the Network With Nokia
Denial-of-Service attacks are growing in size and number, especially as IoT devices become more commonplace. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at a new solution from Nokia using Deepfield and analytics to stop this malicious traffic in transit, which they discussed at Networking Field Day earlier this year.
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Defeating DDoS in the Network with Nokia
Hear. Engage. Relate.
In this post, Zoë Rose shares her experience giving the keynote address for Aruba’s H.E.R., which stands for Hear, Engage, Relate. She related her experience in discovering security. For her, the name of the conference set the tone for success much more than the typical Women in Tech or Diversity conventions. Her keynote was excellent, so please be sure to checkout the video.
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TFDx @ DTW ’19 – Get to Know: Big Switch
Adam Post is a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies World this week. He’s hearing from Big Switch at the event, and in this post, he’s giving an overview of the company and a preview of what he wanted to hear more about. In his view, Big Switch’s recent partnership with Dell EMC to OEM Big Switch products is another signal of Dell’s commitment to open networking. He reviews some of their recently announcement hardware along those lines, and how it interacts with Big Switch Networks Big Cloud Fabric.
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TFDx @ DTW ’19 – Get To Know: Big Switch
TFDx @ DTW ’19 – Get to Know: Kemp
Ahead of the Tech Field Day Extra presentations at Dell Tech World 2019, Adam Post is taking a look at some of the presenters. In this post, he focuses on Kemp. Ahead of the show, the company announced it had the only load balancer to be certified under the Dell EMC Select program for use with Dell EMC’s Elastic Cloud Storage. Adam runs down why load balancing is needed in a scale-out storage solution, and he’s looking forward to a deep dive on it during their presentation.
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