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.
Achieving a New Level for Data Storage and Cloud Fluidity
Matt Leib has seen Pure Storage at a few Field Day events. In this post, he builds off the previous discussions the company had around NVMe to illustrate how the companies forward thinking approach to an all-NVMe portfolio enables greater density at the scale required for the largest enterprises.
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Achieving a New Level for Data Storage and Cloud Fluidity
Netrounds
Richard McIntosh was impressed with what he saw from Netrounds at Networking Field Day earlier this year. Using a series of network agents, they offer testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting, reporting back to a Control Center in a nicely put together GUI. They showed a demo using their API to deploy seven agents in seven countries with reporting starting to Control Center in under a minute. That kind of active monitoring is invaluable for modern networks.
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A Glimpse at Two Approaches to Segment Routing
Networking Field Day Exclusive with Cisco Service Provider provided a unique opportunity speak to an even more specialized audience than a typical Field Day event. Ethan Banks certainly found it interesting. Cisco went into detail about hardware support for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6), as well as support in IOS-XR 6.1. Cisco seems to be driving this standard, with a message around network simplification. Be sure to get Ethan’s full take in the piece.
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A Glimpse At Two Approaches To Segment Routing
BLOG – NFD20 – Kemp Technologies
Rodrigo Rovere got to hear from Kemp Technologies at Networking Field Day earlier this year. The traditional load balancing company presented on a more holistic vision for application delivery. This includes their 360 Vision solution, a cloud offering that can take in information from various load balancers and ADCs. The goal of all of this is to provide better predictive analytics, correlation, and monitoring for customers.
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BLOG - NFD20 - Kemp Technologies
VAST Data Must Be Something Special
It’s always a unique experience when a company comes out of stealth at a Field Day event. At Storage Field Day last month, the delegates, including Chin-Fah Heoh, got to be part of the public unveiling for Vast Data. Aside from having a very amiable tech evangelist, Chin-Fah was impressed by their unique architecture, which uses stateless compute nodes running the Vast Universal File System in containers, which connect to Databoxes that store metadata via Intel Optane. Their data reduction was just as impressive, and left Chin-Fah with a very positive impression about this emerging company.
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VAST Data must be something special
Monitoring Customer Data With Machine Learning
Justin Warren wrote up this piece looking at how IT companies are using machine learning to better monitor customer data. He specifically cites HPE’s InfoSight and NetApp’s Active IQ interesting examples, the latter of which he saw at Tech Field Day last month. He notes that collecting and processing information across customers allows Active IQ to notice systemic issues earlier.
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Monitoring Customer Data With Machine Learning
Voices in Data Storage – Episode 9: A Conversation With Stephen Foskett
In this episode of Voices in Data Storage, Enrico Signoretti interviewed Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett. Enrico has now seen the event from both a presenting company side, and as a delegate. The two talk about current trends in storage and go into detail about the Tech Field Day event series.
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Voices in Data Storage – Episode 9: A Conversation with Stephen Foskett
Storage Field Day 18 – Day 0
Dan Frith is no stranger to Storage Field Day, but it’s still always a treat when he decides to cross the ocean and join as at the event. In this post, Dan previews the events, includes a full schedule, and even links to the video. Be sure to check out our full event playlist to see all the same presentations as the illustrious Mr. Frith.
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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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