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.
Au Revoir OpenIO and Welcome Back Juku!
Enrico Signoretti will be attending his first Storage Field Day event in a while. He recently rejoined the independent analyst ranks, and we’re looking forward to seeing him around the table and asking questions with the other delegates. Make sure to check out his post announcing this, and his blog, for more Storage Field Day coverage.
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Au Revoir OpenIO and Welcome Back Juku!
Dell EMC Data Protection for vCloud Director – A Seamless Approach
John Marrone attended Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US as a first time delegate this year. He heard quite a bit from Dell EMC’s data protection team, and came away impressed. In this post, he digs into what the company presented around vCloud Director and why it’s an intriguing solution for Service Providers.
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Dell EMC Data Protection for vCloud Director – A Seamless Approach
A Matter of Perspective
Tom Hollingsworth considers the importance of perspective, and how the delegates around a table can shape a Tech Field Day presentation. This first came to mind seeing Aviatrix present their Cloud Routing solutions, first at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US, then at Cloud Field Day. For the networking focused audience at the first event, Aviatrix was interesting, but seemed to largely align how they expected networking to work when moved from the data center to the cloud. For the Cloud Field Day delegates, the networking Aviatrix showed was met with acclaim. Tom further saw this in action from Arista Networks, who presented at Mobility Field Day for the first time, discussing how they were integrating the recently acquired Mojo Networks.
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Cohesity – One Software Platform for Multiple Cloud Use Cases
We were happy to have Dukagjin Maloku join us as a delegate at Cloud Field Day last month. At the event, he got to hear the latest from Cohesity. In this post, he looks at Cohesity’s DataPlatform, and considers some multi-cloud use cases he heard at the event. Overall Dukagjin thinks they have what it takes to be dominant in the secondary storage market, and is definitely a company to watch.
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Cohesity – One Software Platform for Multiple Cloud Use Cases
Barefoot Networks and Fully Programmable Switches
Keith Ward got to hear from Barefoot Networks at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld. In this post, he shares a video talking with Director of Product Management Roberto Mari, about how the company’s Tofino programmable switch makes programming a network as easy as programming a server.
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Barefoot Networks and Fully Programmable Switches
#MFD3 Day 1 Recap
Scott Lester posted a summery of what he saw at the first day of Mobility Field Day. Mist Systems impressed scott with their AI-driven infrastructure, and the unique way they are able to proactively advise customers about issues. Arista Networks also provided an interesting presentation. The company recently acquired Mojo Networks, and their presentation focused on the marriage of cognitive networking and cloud driven wireless.
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Mist Enhances Machine Learning Capabilities To Improve WLAN Performance, Troubleshooting
Drew Conry-Murray wrote up what Mist Systems presented on at Mobility Field Day this week. He looks at how the company uses a large number of data points per AP to feed information to their AI-driven infrastructure. Key to this is the refinement of Marvis, the company virtual network assistant. The company showed how they are working to allow admins to interact and resolve issues with Marvis using natural language recognition.
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Mist Enhances Machine Learning Capabilities To Improve WLAN Performance, Troubleshooting
Arista Networks/Mojo- It’s Waaay Early
Lee Badman was interested to hear from Arista Networks at Mobility Field Day this week. The company had recently added WLAN to their portfolio with the acquisition of Mojo Networks. The company showed off CloudVision topology running on a Mojo C-130, which offered some interesting visualizations. Lee is interested to see Arista present again, after the Mojo acquisition has completely coalesced.
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Arista Networks/Mojo- It’s Waaay Early
Enterprise-Class Public Cloud
Chris Evans takes a look at what “enterprise-class” cloud computing would look like, which he heard about extensively from Oracle at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure provides a more managed environment than other public clouds, making it well suited for enterprises that can’t completely rewrite applications. For Chris, there is definitely a market for a cloud provider that doesn’t strictly take a hyperscaler approach.
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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018 – My First TFD Event
This year John Marrone attended his seventh VMworld. What could have been a routine event was given a breath of fresh air, when John attended some Tech Field Day Extra presentations. It was his first experience as a delegate, and after getting used so some of the particular logistics of being a delegate, had a “awesome time”. Not only were the presentations engaging, John enjoyed talking and networking with his fellow delegates.
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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018 – My First TFD Event
Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 17
Later this month, Dan Frith once again will make the sojourn from Down Under to Silicon Valley for his eighth Storage Field Day. He’ll be hearing from StarWind, Komprise, NGD Systems, and get the latest from Intel’s Optane group. That’s a lot to cover in an event, but if it’s anything like Dan’s previous Storage Field Day experience, he’ll have a number of blog posts with plenty of alacrity and insight.
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Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 17
My time at VMworld 2018
Even thought Brandon Graves had to deal with some travel gremlins along the way, he found attending VMworld this year to be a worthwhile experience. One of the highlights was attending a number of Tech Field Day Extra presentations at the event. He got to hear from Dell EMC, Blue Medora, Barefoot Networks, and Netscout over the course of two days. We can’t wait to see his takeaways from those sessions!
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Tech Field Day at VMworld (Las Vegas)
Al Rasheed got his first experience as a delegate while attending Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld. He got to hear from StorageCraft and NetApp at the event. He was impressed not just with his fellow panel of delegates, but by the performance of the presenters as well. He also shares some more Tech Field Day Extra posts from other delegates from the #vCommunity.
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Tech Field Day at VMworld (Las Vegas)
Cloud Storage – AWS, Azure, and Beyond
Ned Bellavance and Stephen Foskett break down the cloud storage options from AWS and Microsoft Azure. They then illustrate why the cacophony of choice from just those two providers make it almost impossible to do a true comparison of either performance or value. They see something like NetApp’s Cloud Volumes, which they saw at Cloud Field Day earlier this year, as a way to approach some consistency in the marketplace.
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Cloud Storage - AWS, Azure, and Beyond
MFD3 Sneak Peek!
Mobility Field Day is fast coming upon us next week. We’re excited to have Scott Lester joining us out in Silicon Valley for his first event. In this post, he gives a preview of what he expects to hear at the event. Make sure to follow along on our live stream to catch every presentation along with Scott.
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Post VMworld 2018
Tony Reeves got the delegate experience out in Vegas when he attended Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US this year. He heard presentations from StorageCraft, Netapp and Dell/EMC during a busy day of presentations. It was part of a very busy VMworld for Tony. We’re looking forward to seeing more of his thoughts from the presentations going forward.
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Mark Your Calendars: Mobility Field Day 3
In this video, Rowell Dionicio discusses coming back for his third Mobility Field Day. He discusses what he expects to hear from each of the presenters, including Arista, who recently acquired previous presenter Mojo Networks. There are a lot of new faces on the delegate side, and Rowell is looking forward to the discussions and perspectives that they will bring.
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Mark Your Calendars: Mobility Field Day 3
Dataset life cycle: Multi-cloud at Cohesity
Raff Poltronieri heard from Cohesity at Cloud Field Day last month. This presentation focused on the Cohesity DataPlatform, which Raff found pretty exciting. The presentation touched on how this could be used for long term retention and VM migration. Cohesity’s platform allows customers to avoid being locked in with a public cloud’s proprietary formats, giving great mobility and versatility.
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Dataset life cycle: Multi-cloud at Cohesity
Mobility Field Day 3 Approacheth
It’s been a long time since Jennifer Huber joined us for a Field Day event. Back then, she had attended Wireless Field Day. But later this month, she’ll join eleven other delegates for Mobility Field Day out in Silicon Valley. We’ve got a full slate of presenters announced, so make sure you mark your calendar for September 12-14 to watch the live stream.
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Mobility Field Day 3 Approacheth
Countdown to VMworld
It was great to have Brandon Graves as a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld. He saw a full slate of companies, with presentations from Dell EMC, Blue Medora, Netscout and Barefoot Networks. We can’t wait to see Brandon’s thoughts on the presentations. If you want to see them for yourself, we’ve posted all presentation video on the event page.
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