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.
AirCheck G2 v3.0; Building on a Wifi Testing Stalwart
Mitch Dickey digs into the upcoming v3.0 firmware for NETSCOUT’s AirCheck G2, which he initially got a look at during Mobility Field Day this summer. This firmware adds a lot of new features, including support for over-the-air updates, device profile sharing via Link-Live, and improved packet capture.
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AirCheck G2 v3.0; Building on a Wifi Testing Stalwart
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to prove skeptics wrong
Chin-Fah Heoh got to hear from Oracle at Tech Field Day earlier this month. They gave a detailed look at their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, outlining recent enhancements and updates to the service. Despite some corporate baggage, Chin-Fah found the product messaging remarkably focused, with OCI seeking to offer the highest performance, enterprise-grade IaaS on the market. What impressed Chin-Fah the most was OCI’s willingness to break with legacy in order to do what’s best for customers.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to prove skeptics wrong
Oracle Cloud, Better Than You Might Think
Enrico Signoretti was like a lot of IT professionals when he heard about Oracle Cloud, looking at it with a healthy dose of skepticism. This came both from the competitive public cloud landscape, and past experiences with the company that weren’t exactly positive. But after hearing Oracle Cloud present at Tech Field Day earlier this month, he found the team had an exciting mix of humility and audacity. He outlines how Oracle is focusing on bare metal performance and “amazingly good” SLAs to offer a compelling service.
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Oracle Cloud, Better Than You Might Think
Netapp Insight 2018 – TFDx- HCI Revealed! Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud?
Roger Lund was at NetApp Insight as a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra presentation. At the event, he got a deep dive into NetApp’s HCI solutions. NetApp has gone to great lengths to define specifically what their intent is behind developing HCI, designed around solving actual customer challenges. Roger reviews the features and how it fits into the company’s overall Data Fabric vision.
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Netapp Insight 2018 – TFDx- HCI Revealed! Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud?
The Network is Still the Computer
DriveScale first came to Chin-Fah Heoh’s attention when NFS guru Brian Pawlowski joined their team earlier this year. At Tech Field Day earlier this month, he got a deeper dive into how the company’s scale-out architecture is designed to address the needs of webscale data processing. He got a look at their virtual cluster framework and how they use a advanced switching fabric to bridge compute and storage with extremely low latency. Chin-Fah came away impressed with the engineering talent at the company.
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The Network is Still the Computer
The Dell EMC Data Bunker
At Tech Field Day, Dell EMC announced a new product to the delegates, the Cyber Recovery solution, coming from their Data Protection BU. Chin-Fah Heoh wrote up his thoughts after seeing the announcement as a delegate at the event. He frames Cyber Recovery as a data bunker, isolating mission critical secondary data, while preserving the integrity of the copy. Chin-Fah thinks this falls more into the security camp rather than the storage side, but it appears to line up well with enterprise security standards.
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Violin Systems is acquiring X-IO Storage
Andrea Mauro looks at the recently announced plans for Violin Systems to acquire X-IO. Andrea is well familiar with X-IO having recently seen the company present at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe. Violin Systems is getting X-IO ISE business with its mature service process and organization. Meanwhile, X-IO’s new edge computing platform, Axellio, will be spun out as a separate company.
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Violin Systems is acquiring X-IO Storage
NetApp Insight 2018 – Hello Stranger, We Meet Again
Max Mortillaro is coming to Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018. He’s hoping to reconnect with a company he’s hasn’t directly worked with. On the eve of 2019, he thinks the company’s transformation is more than just PR, and seems to represent substantive change. He’s excited to get more details during the Tech Field Day Extra presentations.
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NetApp Insight 2018 - Hello Stranger, We Meet Again
What Wi-Fi Tools are MetaGeek and Oscium Cooking Up Together?
MetaGeek and Oscium recently announced a new partnership at the 20178 Wi-Fi Tek Conference. Lee Badman has seen MetaGeek at a number of Tech Field Day presentations over the years, so he’s excited to see what the two have cooking up.
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What Wi-Fi Tools are MetaGeek and Oscium Cooking Up Together?
Hammering Next Gen Hybrid Clouds
Chin-Fah Heoh looks at Hammerspace, a company that came out of stealth at Tech Field Day this week. Chin-Fah sees them offering Metadata-as-a-Service, delivering just the right data needed for applications, using metadata to determine those requirements, and delivering it in the cloud of on-premises. The company has an impressive data-as-a-service portfolio at launch, but Chin-Fah was impressed by this capability in itself.
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Hammering Next Gen Hybrid Clouds
Commvault “Thinks Different” About Data
Luigi Danakos was a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018. He got to see all the keynotes and announcements from the event, looking at how Commvault is moving the company into the broader world of data management. This includes a new focus on partner relationships and a vastly streamlined licensing model.
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Commvault "Thinks Different" About Data
Mojo (Arista) Answers The Layer 2 Situation for WLAN Migration To Cloud
Lee Badman has been looking at how wireless companies are dealing with the Layer 2 Situation, where cloud-controlled APs become hard to manage as volume increases. Lee thought Mojo Networks, recently acquired by Arista, had a good hybrid solution for this in their Multiservice Platform. He definitely hopes Arista maintains this approach going forward.
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Mojo (Arista) Answers The Layer 2 Situation for WLAN Migration To Cloud
Nyansa; A Clearer Picture From a Data Gathering Powerhouse at #MFD3
Nyansa made a return to Field Day presentations last month, presenting at Mobility Field Day. Mitch Dickey looks at how Nyansa’s Voyance analytics platform is able to ingest massive amounts of data, creating a full client picture of wireless performance and experience. Mitch seemed particularly interested in how Voyance can help bring visibility and sense to the increasing volume of IoT devices on networks.
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Nyansa; A Clearer Picture From a Data Gathering Powerhouse at #MFD3
NetApp Provides Insights for Women in Tech
Ahead of NetApp Insight 2018, Rich Stroffolino previews what should be one of the more interesting session at the event, the Women In Technology Panel. Now in its sixth annual iteration, this session brings together women from NetApp and other prominent IT companies to discuss the topic.
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NetApp Provides Insights for Women in Tech
Has Arista lost its Mojo?
Scott Lester was looking forward to seeing what Arista would announce at Mobility Field Day, following their acquisition of Mojo Networks. Scott had high hopes for the presentation, but the traditional data center networking company didn’t exactly announce anything revelatory. In his post, Scott breaks down what was missing, and what he’d like to see Arista do with the Mojo Networks assets.
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Secondary Data and Komprise with Krishna Subramanian by Data Driven Talk
In this episode of Data Driven Talk, host Enrico Signoretti discusses the challenges of secondary data. His guest, founder and COO of Komprise, Krishna Subramanian, discusses the current state of the secondary storage market, what it is, and how best to address it.
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Secondary Data and Komprise with Krishna Subramanian by Data Driven Talk
9 Years of Tech Field Days with Stephen Foskett
In a recent TotalPackets video, Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett was interviewed by Kori Younger. They discussed why Tech Field Day resonates with both presenting companies and the larger IT community of experts.
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9 Years of Tech Field Days with Stephen Foskett
Anticipating Network Field Day 19 (NFD19)
The inimitable Pete Welcher returns as a Networking Field Day delegate next month. In this post, he previews the presenting companies. The roster is stacked for the event, including networking stalwarts like Cisco and Riverbed, emerging startups like Barefoot Network, Apstra, and Illumio, and those that Pete wants to see more from like Silver Peak, Kentik, and Bluecat Networks. You can catch all their presentation on our live stream during the event.
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Anticipating Network Field Day 19 (NFD19)
Why Have I Joined Apstra?
One of former Networking Field Day delegates, Jeff Tantsura, recently became the Head of Networking Strategy for Apstra. Jeff got a technical deep dive on the company at Networking Field Day last year, where he was immediatelty struck by the massively scalable and distributed design of their platform. In the end, the company had exciting technology and just the right people for Jeff to accept the role.
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Day 4 – Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018
Al Rasheed documented his days at Commvault GO 2018, having attended as a delegate of a Tech Field Day Exclusive event. The day was filled with keynotes, a visit to the GO Village, and appearance on two different podcasts. Even outside the Tech Field Day presentations, Al Rasheed found a lot of value from the event.
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