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.
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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I will be at Storage Field Day 17! Wait, what is a “Storage Field Day”?
We’re happy to have the bon vivant Max Mortillaro joining us again for Storage Field Day later this month. This will be Max’s sixth Storage Field Day, and with that experiences, he’s dropping some knowledge about it. He looks at what makes Field Day events unique, namely the engaged conversation between delegates and company presenters. If you’ve ever wondered about becoming a delegate, you can always sign up right on our site!
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I will be at Storage Field Day 17! Wait, what is a "Storage Field Day"?
Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018
Adam Fisher was able to join as a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018. He shares his experience in this post, including how he got involved as a delegate, the TFD Vegas Suite experience, and hearing from Dell EMC’s data protection team. Overall he had an “amazing experience” and found it the perfect way to cap off the best conference he’s attended to date.
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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018
Zerto facilitates IT resiliency with a single VM replication platform
Jon Klaus heard from Zerto at Storage Field Day in Boston earlier this year. In this post, he digs deep into their block level, continuous hypervisor-based VM replication. Their approach allows you to rewind your VM to a specific point in time and recover the exact state. For Jon, this removes many of the problems of VM replication he’s come across in other solutions. It doesn’t use snapshots, and uses a single IO Filter that’s easily configured. Overall he’s interesting in testing it out and learning more.
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Zerto facilitates IT resiliency with a single VM replication platform
Management Frame Detection?
Samuel Clements considers the acronym MFD. What could be better than Management Frame Detection? Mobility Field Day of course! He’s heading out to the event later this month. In this post, he reviews the announced presenters and what he expects to hear about from each. Remember, you can follow along with all presentations during the event on our live stream, and engage with the conversation on Twitter using #MFD3.
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LightStep: application performance management for the new stack
For Joep Piscaer, seeing LightStep [x]PM at Cloud Field Day this month at first seemed pretty routine. It seemed to be a run of the mill, if functional, Application Performance Management tool. But after watching their presentation, it becomes clear that [x]PM is different. It’s built by a team that knows how to deal with extremes of scale and concurrency from Google, but with the vision that most organizations don’t need to operate at a Google level of scale. In a world obscured by microservices, [x]PM offers something unique, a tool that tells a coherent story on transactions across the distribution and concurrency, abstracting away those complexities and surfacing the right information and insights.
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LightStep: application performance management for the new stack
Mobility Field Day 3
We’re excited to have Aruba Networks presenting at Mobility Field Day this September. Make sure to mark your calendar for September 14th, they’ll be presenting on autonomous networking, as well as touching on new standards like WPA3 and 802.11ax.
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Contemplating Mist Systems and Mobility Field Day 3
Ahead of heading out west to Mobility Field Day in September, Lee Badman is considering the latest updates from Mist Systems. With Artificial Intelligence being one of the signature buzzwords of 2018, Lee is curious how exactly Mist will demonstrate a meaningful implementation. He’s intrigued to learn more, but he’ll definitely have a lot of questions for their presentation.
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Contemplating Mist Systems and Mobility Field Day 3
Cohesity at #CFD4 – Secondary Storage is now Cloud Enabled
Pietro Piutti has been familari with Cohesity for a while, but their Cloud Field Day presentation this month struck him with their completeness of vision. In that presentation, the company did a deep dive into their cloud use cases. Just as the company has done for secondary storage on-premises, their cloud use cases seek to unify secondary storage, and prevent the cloud from becoming an expensive data silo with no visibility. With support for native cloud backup, access to the major public clouds, and an architecture that ensures data mobility, Pietro found their presentation compelling.
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Cohesity at #CFD4 – Secondary Storage is now Cloud Enabled
Cohesity: Much More than Hyperconverged Secondary Storage
At Cloud Field Day this month, Cohesity was able to broaden their conversation into new use cases than we’ve heard at their previous Field Day presentation. Ken Nalbone was impressed by the cloud functionality of the Cohesity Data Platform, including being able to create archives on multiple cloud providers, with individual and collective bandwidth caps, from a single policy. Overall, Ken found that Cohesity’s solutions have expanded considerably from their original “Hyperconverged Secondary Storage” offering.
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Cohesity: Much More than Hyperconverged Secondary Storage
Improving Network Management Tools
In this post, Pete Welcher considers how to improve network management tools. The problem with these is that they are often sold to customers without any consideration for their use-cases and needs. He considers some of the path tracing tools he saw from SolarWinds at Networking Field Day as a great way to frame that information, and suggests that other network management tools would do well to adopt that methodology for other metrics.
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Improving Network Management Tools
Cohesity – Harnessing the Power of Data
Ather Beg was able to have his cake and eat it too at Cloud Field Day. The cake came courtesy of Cohesity, but luckily it wasn’t even close to the best part of their presentation. In this post, he outlines the features, benefits and questions he has about the Cohesity DataPlatform, which was presented extensively at the event.
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Cohesity – Harnessing the Power of Data
Cloud Field Day 4: Cohesity Wows Delegates (and Twitter!) with Cloud Demos
Cohesity’s Chris Colotti wrote up a post about his experience at Cloud Field Day this month. It was his first chance to be involved with a Field Day event, and came away finding it well worth it. Chris found it interesting for a company generally associated with secondary storage to make a case to the Cloud Field Day audience. He shares some live delegate responses from Twitter, and looks forward to continue engaging with the delegate community.
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Cloud Field Day 4: Cohesity Wows Delegates (and Twitter!) with Cloud Demos
VMworld 2018 Is Around The Corner
Matt Allford will be joining the other delegates out in the desert for Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018. Matt is a new delegate, but not new to Tech Field Day. When a change in employment caused Matt to become more familiar with VMware and the community around the company, he discovered our library of video content and began diving in. It’s great to have Matt along, keep an eye out for coverage from the event!
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VMworld 2018 Is Around The Corner
Multi-Cloud, DevOps, and Storage
From the presentation from NetApp at Cloud Field Day earlier this year, Ned Bellavance and Stephen Foskett wrote an in-depth article looking at the challenges of applying DevOps concepts to storage, especially in a multi-cloud environment. NetApp addressed this challenge with Cloud Volumes, which they see as providing the flexibility demanded by DevOps without sacrificing the functionality of robust data services.
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