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.
Commvault and Services
At Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018, Stephen Foskett got to talk with Sabrinath Rao and David Ngo. They discussed some of the exciting new products from Commvault, including the company’s new as-a-Service offerings. These represent not just a simple change in payment, but rather give companies the cloud-native flexibility to consume Commvault data management on-demand.
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Let there be light with Commvault Activate
At Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018, Chin-Fah Heoh heard about Commvault Activate, the company’s new data insights platform. For Chin-Fah, this brought back a flood of memories on the importance of storage resource management. For him, Commvault Activate’s ability to search, discover and learn about different types of data, data context and relationships within the organization is vital for anyone embracing modern data management or digital transformation.
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Let there be light with Commvault Activate
Ookla Acquires Ekahau – The Future of Wi-Fi Design is Speedy!
Tom Hollingsworth examines the recent acquisition of Ekahau by Ookla. We last heard from Ekahau at Wireless Field Day 2, and Tom outlines how the companies platform and solutions have remained focused on helping wireless professionals do their job. From there, he looks at how Ookla can make use of the assets from the acquisition.
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Ookla Acquires Ekahau - The Future of Wi-Fi Design is Speedy!
From the Edge to the Air, Fortinet’s Full Stack End to End Solution
Mitch Dickey might be hesitant to admit it, but he can’t deny that Fortinet isn’t just a security or wireless company (thanks to their Meru acquisition). Instead, this posts outlines how the company is a true end to end solution, from their FortiGate, through switching, and into wireless.
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From the Edge to the Air, Fortinet’s Full Stack End to End Solution
Day 2 – Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018
We were thrilled to have Al Rasheed as one of our delegates for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018. In this post, he looks at the Commvault presentations made at the event, including some pre-embargo announcements just for the delegates. The presentations discussed new products, including a Commvault as a Service offering, customer testimonials, changes in licensing, and more.
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Day 2 – Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018
Day 1 – Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018
In this post, Al Rasheed looks at day one of his experience at Commvault GO 2018. As part of the event, he also attended Tech Field Day Exclusive presentations at Commvault GO. We’re glad the trip and accommodations all went smoothly!
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Day 1 – Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018
NGD Systems from #SFD17
Aaron Strong got a look at how NGD System’s computational storage solutions hope to deal with the coming deluge of large data sets. At Storage Field Day, they showed how putting ARM CPUs directly on the storage layer, combined with their In-Situ suite to expose the compute, can help offload and distribute workloads, saving latency and energy.
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Commvault GO 2018 with Tech Field Day
Al Rasheed will be joining the rest of our delegates at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018 this week. He’s hoping to learn more about Commvault’s refreshed solutions, expand his network, and grow his overall knowledge base. We can’t wait to see his takeaways from the event.
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Commvault GO 2018 with Tech Field Day
Scality Zenko Product Brief
In this paper, Chris Evans outlines Scality’s Zenko platform. This acts as a storage controller across object stores, whether on-prem or in the cloud. This draws on much of what Chris saw from Scality at Storage Field Day last year.
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CTS 141: Analytics Data & Wi-Fi
Rowell Dionicio gives an overview of what he saw from Nyansa at Mobility Field Day this year. Nyansa Voyance gathers together a massive amount of information across the network to represent a full client experience within their dashboard. All of this helps drill down to the root cause of problems, and surface actionable solutions.
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CTS 141: Analytics Data & Wi-Fi
Komprise: Data Management Made Easy
Max Mortillaro considers that while data management and secondary storage are big concerns in modern IT, they are far from a solved problem. At Storage Field Day last month, he heard a presentation from Komprise, which seeks to bring a real world focus to data management. Max outlines how they can help slay the serpent de mer traditionally associated with data management.
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Komprise: Data Management Made Easy
Analyzing analytic offerings
Sam Clements reviews some of the recent analytics solutions, including many from Mobility Field Day earlier this year. He looks at solutions from Nyansa, Mist Systems, Meraki, Aruba, and Cisco.
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Meraki Is Now In The “F’ACK” Game
Jim Palmer wants his readers to know that Meraki’s FAST-ACK as presented at Mobility Field Day last month isn’t the same as fracking. Instead, this patented technology designed to speed up content from a remote device. He digs into the use of ACK in a traditional Ethernet network, and how Meraki is innovating on this for wireless networks.
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Meraki Is Now In The “F’ACK” Game
“Thirteen hundred APs, no open support tickets” – achieving quality in wireless networks
Amy Arnold takes a look at what Mist Systems presented at Mobility Field Day last month. Utilizing a cloud-based micro-services architecture along with a smattering of AI, Amy looks at how Mist can provide customer focused reliability, visibility, and proactive troubleshooting for wireless networks.
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“Thirteen hundred APs, no open support tickets” – achieving quality in wireless networks
Heading to Commvault GO 2018 with Tech Field Day
It’s been too long since Dave Henry graced one of our events. Luckily he’ll be joining us at our Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2018. Make sure to watch our live stream of their event presentation to follow along with Dave.
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Heading to Commvault GO 2018 with Tech Field Day
NGD Systems Help Make Cat Searches Go Faster with Better Results at SFD17
NGD Systems’ computational storage solution certainly left an impression on the Storage Field Day delegates, including Jeffrey Powers. In his post on their presentation, it looks at how moving compute to the storage layer provides for better scaling and can be useful for complex application workloads.
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NGD Systems Help Make Cat Searches Go Faster with Better Results at SFD17
NGD Systems Are On The Edge Of Glory
Dan Frith got to see NGD Systems at Storage Field Day last month. In this post, he writes up his thoughts about how NGD is approaching the problem of edge computing. Their approach isn’t simply to move the compute layer to a remote location, but rather to move compute directly onto the storage layer. This provides a cheaper alternative than moving the data to a central location, with massive latency and parallelism benefits as well. You don’t have to be “Gaga” to see the benefits in that.
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NGD Systems Are On The Edge Of Glory
Monitoring Data Translation As a Service – Blue Medora
Alastair Cooke heard from Blue Medora at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018 earlier this year. In this piece, he looks at how the company provides Bindplane, a solution that serves as a sort of Rosetta Stone for all of the “single pane of glass” monitoring that ends up siloed among teams. Bindplane isn’t just another monitoring tool, it’s the glue to stick together multiple data sources that can be commonly viewed and have additional tools work on in unison.
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Monitoring Data Translation As a Service – Blue Medora
GraphDBs and Network Automation
In this post Nicola Arnoldi clears up some confusion. For him, when network automation is vital for any organization, it’s important to keep in context what things like Ansible are. This isn’t SDN or an orchestration framework. Instead, taking a cue from Ansible’s recent Networking Field Day presentation, this is just one tool to accomplish automation. These kind of tool are perfect for building a Graph DB of your network resources. This is what underlies Apstra’s intent-based networking, as demoed at Networking Field Day last year.
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GraphDBs and Network Automation
Tech Field Day Extra VMworld 2018 – JetStream Software
Joe Houghes got to hear from JetStream Software at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US this year. The company showed off their three solutions, Migrate, Accelerate, and Data Protection. In this post, Joe focuses on Migrate, which provides a robust bulk-migration utility to move virtual machines from one site to another.
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