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.
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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California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
Becky Elliott is returning to the delegate roundtable, coming to Storage Field Day out in Silicon Valley next week. At her third event, she’s looking forward to reconnecting with some fellow delegates, and getting deep dives from the presenting roster of companies. She’s even compiled all the past presentations by company if you want to do a little homework before next week. We can’t wait to hear what she thinks of this event!
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California Dreamin’ My Way to Storage Field Day 18
PathSolutions Presents
Brian Gleason was a delegate at our recent Networking Field Day event. He and the other delegates got to hear from PathSolutions among the many presentations. Despite having a UI that could charitably called functional, Brian was impressed by what he saw from their TotalView monitoring solution. This looks at all interfaces on a network device and polls 19 interface counters to give a complete picture of health, and presents it in a logical layout.
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Network Break 222: SnapRoute Launches Network OS; Carbonite Buys Webroot
In this episode of Network Break, the podcast crew looks at SnapRoute’s CN-NOS Demonstration from Networking Field Day, which was previously profiled in their Briefings in Brief show as well. Be sure to give it a listen to get their take on the event.
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Network Break 222: SnapRoute Launches Network OS; Carbonite Buys Webroot
Datera and Modern Data Center
Marina Ferreira takes a look at the software-defined storage solution from Datera that was presented at Tech Field day earlier this month. What was interesting was the effort that Datera took in the presentation to show what their idea of a modern data center looked like. This was important to contextualize how Datera is serving this modern architecture.
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Juniper NRE LAB
Mario Gingras got a look at Juniper Networks’ NRE Lab at Networking Field Day. This software portal provides a way for network admins to learn device configuration automation without having to install or configure additional modules on your workstation.
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SolarWinds Takes on Security
Security might not be top of mind when thinking of SolarWinds, but after seeing their presentation at Tech Field Day, Nathaniel Avery is starting to consider them in a new light. They demoed their SolarWinds Access Rights Manage for Microsoft Active Directory, trying to solve the classic problems of account and permission management. Combined with their large existing customer base, and their consistent UI across products, Nathaniel thinks they can make an aggressive move into the security market going forward.
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Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!
Ken Nalbone wrote up an interesting post considering what he saw from VMware at Tech Field Day earlier this month. The company focused on how they can provide solutions for IT infrastructure beyond the travails of Day 0, into Day 1 and beyond. For Ken, this might not be the most exciting, but it’s probably more critical for organizations.
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Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!
A Day in the Life of a Packet
Al Rasheed is back with another excellent write up from a Field Day presentation, this time focusing on what he saw from Forward Networks at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe this year. The intent-based networking company focused on their Forward Enterprise tier on the presentation, showing use cases for Application Team Self-Service and Change Window Assistance. Al was really impressed by how well prepared the presenters are, and agrees with Ivan Pepelnjak that the presentation was “awesome”.
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A Cloud-Native NOS, at Last!
Nicola Arnoldi was excited to hear form Snaproute at Networking Field Day last week. That’s because the company demoed their CN-NOS (Cloud Native NOS) for the first time. This uses a Kubernetes-API-centric approach to attempt to breakdown the wall between NetOps and DevOps. Nicola thinks this is as much a cultural as a technical divide, but CN-NOS provides a compelling tool to get everyone speaking on the same terms.
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A Storage Field 18 I Will Go – for the Fun of It
Chin-Fah Heoh proves that writing a blog post about a forthcoming Storage Field Day event doesn’t limit the author to simple prose. Channeling his inner Sondheim, he wrote a catchy little ditty about what he’s expecting to see at the event. Feel free to use it at your next karaoke night!
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A Storage Field 18 I will go – for the fun of it
Disclosure: Tech Field Day 18
We were fortunate to have Justin Warren along as a delegate at Tech Field Day earlier this month. He got to hear from a great selection of prominent IT companies and newer startups, getting technical deep dives and engaging in thoughtful dialogue. Be sure to check out all the video from the event to stay up to date with the latest in enterprise IT.
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Tech Field Day in Barcelona
Orhan Ergun joined us at Tech Field Day Extra a Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona this year. At the event, he got to hear presentations from Cisco on their Cloud ACI release, as well as visiting booths from companies that presented at past Networking Field Day events. Just as important was the networking he did with the other Field Day delegates at the event, whether it was trading technical expertise, or simply sharing stories from the IT trenches. We’re looking forward to having Orhan at more events in 2019!
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BLOG – Networking Field Day – Day 1
Rodrigo Rovere was a first time delegate at Networking Field Day earlier this month. It’s always exciting to grow the Field Day family of delegates, who always bring new experience and expertise to the conversation around the table. In this post, Rodrigo previews the event. Be sure to watch our recorded video of all the presentations to get up to speed with what he saw there.
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