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.
Apstra to Demonstrate Intent-Based Data Center Network Automation with VMware vSphere Integration at VMworld
James Green first got a look at Apstra back at Networking Field Day in 2016. The company offers an intent-based networking solution based on their Apstra Operating System. They’ll be presenting at VMworld next week, and James looks at their newly announced vSphere integration. This now allows for viewing the relationships between workloads, applications, tenants, and virtual networks,with specific interfaces, CPUs, and links, to all co-exist in the same graph representation.
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VMworld 2018 – Where’s Gabe?
Gabe Maentz has had experience with Tech Field Day Extra events both as a presenter and a delegate. At VMworld US 2018, he’ll be on the delegate side again, hearing from a variety of presenters from the show. In this post, he outlines what he’s looking forward to seeing from JetStream Software, Quali and Runecast. Make sure to watch along with Gabe on our live stream from the event.
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I’ll be at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018 and Future:net
We’re excited to have Ed Horley coming to Tech Field Day Extra a VMware US next week. We’ve got a full lineup of presenting companies, so make sure you follow along with Ed and the other delegates on our live stream.
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I'll be at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018 and Future:net
Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
Nick Janetakis wrote up a piece looking at how developers should approach microservices. For Nick, this is something that should be organically grown into over time, not something you seek to create from the first line of code. He uses the example of LightStep to illustrate how this grows naturally in development, and when it’s worth it to pursue. Look for Nick to speak on a similar topic on an upcoming On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, recorded at Cloud Field Day this month.
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Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
EP14:- A chat bout #CFD4, news and what to look forward to
On the OpenTechCast, Ather Beg talks about his experience at Cloud Field Day earlier this month. He looks at his experience signing up as a delegate, and reviews the companies he heard from. He highlights what stood out with LightStep, Cohesity, Aviatrix, and others. He also details a delegate trip to SETI Institute and some of the other activities not on our typical live stream.
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EP14:- A chat bout #CFD4, news and what to look forward to
Aviatrix – Cloud Networking Made Easy
Ather Beg was impressed by what he saw from Aviatrix at Cloud Field Day this month. They showed how their cloud networking approach can greatly simplify hybrid architectures, while keeping everything secure and scalable. Ather sees their solution as vital for organizations where cloud teams don’t have networking expertise, but have traditional networking needs when moving across clouds.
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Aviatrix – Cloud Networking Made Easy
Aviatrix Simplifies Public Cloud Networking
In this piece, Keith Ward looks at how Aviatrix’s software-defined cloud routing is helping to make public cloud networking manageable and simple. After hearing from them at Cloud Field Day this month, Keith thinks their approach should find a ready home in enterprises with cloud-scale routing needs.
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Aviatrix Simplifies Public Cloud Networking
Aviatrix, the Cloud Networking solution designed around real-life use cases
Pietro Piutti was introduced to Aviatrix before Cloud Field Day this month, but he really got a deep dive into the company at an event. In this post, he looks at how the company makes Cloud Networking fast, easy and manageable. He then reviews some use cases for their solutions, and even looks at their possible solution for IPSec encryption bandwidth limitations.
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Aviatrix, the Cloud Networking solution designed around real-life use cases
13 Things You Need To Do at VMworld 2018
VMworld can be a packed an intimidating event. Luckily Scott Lowe wrote up a list of things to should do so you don’t miss anything big. One of them is making sure to catch the Tech Field Day Extra events happening at the presentation. If you’re not going to be in Vegas for the event, be sure to watch along with all the Tech Field Day Extra activity on our live stream!
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13 Things You Need To Do at VMworld 2018
Big Switch is Changing the Cloud Game
Rita Younger looks at how Big Switch enable customers to build a self-service data center private cloud. They do this by approaching it from a cloud-first strategy to make an automated environment via their virtual private clouds. This was presented during Big Switch’s presentation at Networking Field Day last month.
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Big Switch is Changing the Cloud Game
SoftNAS Cloud: Cloud Unlocker Storage?
Ather Beg wrote up his thoughts on SoftNAS after seeing the company at Cloud Field Day this month. He found their SoftNAS Cloud solution to be interesting for organizations that need to get to the cloud, but don’t have the resources or the will to rearchitect their applications. For those customers, SoftNAS Cloud looks to be the “perfect solution.”
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SoftNAS Cloud: Cloud Unlocker Storage?
Move Your Data into the Cloud NOW with SoftNAS
Ken Nalbone got to hear from SoftNAS at Cloud Field Day this month. He thinks the question of whether the company offers a “cloud native” solution is less interesting than what their solution actually does: Enable customers to move large amounts of data without refactoring their applications for the public cloud. This has the potential to remove one of the biggest barrier of entry to the cloud.
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Move Your Data into the Cloud NOW with SoftNAS
Data Platform: the Cohesity solution to manage and optimize the fruition of enterprise data
Raff Poltronieri gives an overview of the Cohesity DataPlatform that he saw at Cloud Field Day this month in this piece. This is central to Cohesity’s vision for secondary storage, providing a unified space to access secondary data across a variety of uses, rather than have the same data replicated all over the place. All of this is exposed to open APIs, making it ideal for additional automation and orchestration.
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Data Platform: the Cohesity solution to manage and optimize the fruition of enterprise data
First Impressions and Hands On With Cohesity
Chris Colotti may be a new hire for Cohesity, but that’s not stopping him from firing up Cohesity Virtual Edition in his home lab to get ready for VMworld. He agrees with what he heard from some of our Cloud Field Day delegates during the company’s presentation this month, the Cohesity Virtual Edition interface offers an impressively unified way to manage a cluster. In this post, he walks through deploying the software and some basic job set ups.
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First Impressions and Hands On With Cohesity
Why I’m going to VMworld 2018 Las Vegas
It’s been a while since Marco Broeken had a chance to attend VMworld US. A lot has changed since 2012. He’s interested in catching up on VMware’s HCI, multi-cloud, and NSX portfolios, as well as reconnecting with the community. As part of that, he’ll be attending Tech Field Day Extra presentations at the event. Make sure to watch along with Marco on our live stream.
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Why I'm going to VMworld 2018 Las Vegas
What I’d Like to See at MFD3
Drew Lentz may not be at Mobility Field Day next month, but that hasn’t tempered his enthusiasm. He’ll be watching the live stream and following #MFD3 on Twitter. In this post, he looks at the presenting companies and watch he wants to see from each.
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How SoftNAS Is Like the U.S. Marines
If you were designing a business from scratch, adopting a cloud native strategy might be obvious. But what about everyone else left on the cloud adoption spectrum? Keith Ward covers SoftNAS’s presentation from Cloud Field Day as an ideal solution for those companies. In his mind, they approach a “leave no man behind” approach to going to the cloud.
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How SoftNAS Is Like the U.S. Marines
What Next for Violin Systems?
Chris Evans takes a look at the current state of Violin Systems, a company he got to see at Storage Field Day back in 2016 when it was known as Violin Memory. The company has gone through more than just a name change since that time, having significant financial and management shakeups. Chris overviews what made them an early all-flash storage leader, and where he sees their technology taking the company going forward.
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Tech Field Day – An Amazing Experience
Ather Beg attended his first Field Day event with Cloud Field Day this month. He definitely found it to be a rewarding experience. In this post, he outlines some of the behind the scenes elements that don’t get live streamed. This includes a look at what makes this event especially appealing for “techies”, trips to SETI Institute and In-n-Ou, and recording episodes of the On-Premise IT Roundtable. Overall the title of the post says is all, an amazing experience.
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Tech Field Day – An Amazing Experience
Aviatrix Systems – Simplicity for Cloud Networking
Liselotte Foverskov was excited to hear from Aviatrix at Cloud Field Day earlier this month. They are an early leader in the emerging cloud router market, which Liselotte thinks is vital for organization trying to implement a multi-cloud infrastructure while keeping complexity manageable. Their cloud routers also do more than just simplify connectivity. They also include integrations for visibility and analytics tools like Splunk, SumoLogic, Syslog, ELK and Datadog.
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