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.
Join us at Tech Field Day 18
At Tech Field Day events, we like to get a wide swath of companies to present. Some are unknown startups, who can offer an interesting and insurgent perspective. But it’s also just as important to hear from industry stalwarts, like VMware. They presented at Tech Field Day last week, doing a deep dive on vSAN and vSphere Health specifically. You’ll need to check out the full video of their presentation to hear all the details.
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Tech Field Day 18 is Feb 6-8 2019 – Look out Austin!
Ed Horely has been attending Tech Field Day events for over half a decade, originally joining the delegate fold back in 2013. He most recently returned at Tech Field Day in Austin last week, getting to drink for the IT firehose for two days. We’re looking forward to what Ed though of the event in future posts. Be sure to watch all the Tech Field Day video on our YouTube channel.
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Tech Field Day 18 is Feb 6-8 2019 - Look out Austin!
NetApp buys into Kubernetes Orchestration with StackPointCloud
Chris Evans breaks down the reasons behind NetApp’s recent acquisition of StackPointCloud. The company gained a management Kubernetes provider that works across clouds. Now they are using it to run their own NetApp Kubernetes service. This is another vital step for the company from transforming from selling storage hardware and software into a storage service provider.
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NetApp buys into Kubernetes Orchestration with StackPointCloud
Time to say goodbye to Barcelona
Kim Pedersen had to write up a post as she was finishing up her first Tech Field Day Extra experience at Cisco Live Europe 2019. After the days of informative company presentations and delegate networking, it was tough to say goodbye to Barcelona. We’re looking forward to reading Kim’s deep dives into the presentations going forward!
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Time to say goodbye to Barcelona
Cumulus VX Spine and Leaf
In this post, Marina Ferreira details how she used the Cumulus Linux Demo Framework from Cumulus Networks to built her own spine and leaf architecture in about ten minutes. She was impressed by the amount of work being done in the background, even if the setup did require a bit of Linux backend knowledge. It also uses a Ansible playbook to push the configuration to the spine and leafs, as well as adding new interfaces. Along with a healthy amount of demos, she found this whiteboard session by Pete Lumbis at Networking Field Day to be invaluable.
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Privileged Account Management with CyberArk
For Chris Grundemann, one of the best ways to protect a cloud service is to implement a rock-solid security solution. To truly achieve this, privileged account management must be a primary concern. At Security Field Day, he heard from CyberArk how they are implementing this for their customer base. The company was originally founded in 1999, and have used their experience guarding secrets to trickle down an excellent PAM solution to customers.
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Privileged Account Management with CyberArk
BLOG – Tech Field Day 20 – Estaremos lá!!!
It’s always great to expand the delegates that attend Field Day events. We’re really looking forward to seeing what Rodrigo Rovere thinks of Networking Field Day next month. He introduces the event series and introduces what he expects to see at the event in this post. With nine companies set to present, it should be an event packed with great content.
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BLOG - Tech Field Day 20 - Estaremos lá!!!
Zerto: The Road to IT Resiliency
Arjan Timmerman attended Storage Field Day this summer, and one of the companies he heard an in-depth technical deep dive from was Zerto. The company has had an intriguing solution for replication of virtual workloads on vSphere, expanding to other hypervisors and public clouds over time. Arjan reviews the technical merits of their solution, and looks at how this has enabled them to create a backup solution as part of their IT resiliency portfolio.
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Zerto: The Road to IT Resiliency
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