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.
Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS
Max Mortillaro looks at Druva’s acquisition of CloudRanger, which offers a data protection solution for AWS. Max got to see a lot from Druva at their recent Cloud Field Day presentation, and thinks the acquisition will offer a nice compliment to the company’s existing Data Management as a Service portfolio.
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Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS
Looking at the Internet with ThousandEyes
Rich Stroffolino wrote up an overview of ThousandEyes, based on their presentation at Networking Field Day earlier this year. The company provides an innovative approach for monitoring SaaS app performance. Instead of limiting monitoring to traffic within an organization, they provide a framework to monitor the Internet itself as a network.
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Looking at the Internet with ThousandEyes
Predictable VxLAN EVPN Scale with Mellanox Spectrum
Chris Grundemann takes a look at Mellanox’s Spectrum line of Ethernet switches, as presented at their recent Networking Field Day presentation. Mellanox’s innovative ASIC design allows these switches to scale while maintaining high performance.
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Predictable VxLAN EVPN Scale with Mellanox Spectrum
Extending Policy Control with NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud
Denise Donohue shared her look at the policy control features of VMware’s NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud. This allows admins to synchronize policy enforcement points with a single coordinated platform.
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Extending Policy Control with NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud
VMWare’s Virtual Cloud Network: Managing networks like magic
Sonia Cuff shares how VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network can help solve the challenges of a modern distributed workforce. This uses NSX SD-WAN to securely connect and monitor a network, while keeping management simple. For Sonia, invoking Arthur C Clarke, this approaches networking magic.
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VMWare’s Virtual Cloud Network: Managing networks like magic
Unlocking VXLAN with Mellanox
After seeing Mellanox present at Networking Field Day earlier this year, Tom Hollingsworth looks at how their hardware support for VXLAN could make the dream of fast, extensible and inexpensive ethernet a reality.
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Change Doesn’t Have To Be a Four Letter Word
Change to a network inherently exposes an organization to some risk of something going wrong. John Herbert looks at Cisco’s Network Assurance Engine, and how it helps admins do testing of a change state and extensive validation to help reduce that risk, and make change much more manageable.
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Change Doesn’t Have To Be a Four Letter Word
NetApp Cloud Volumes 101
Bhavin Shah takes a look at NetApp Cloud Volumes, after their recent announcement that it is now available on Google Cloud. Cloud Volumes provides cloud-native enterprise-class file services to users, all based around a familiar usage-billing model. He walks through how to get started using Cloud Volumes, and previews where NetApp is expanding it after watching their Cloud Field Day presentation.
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Head in the Clouds: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Jon Hildebrand takes a look at what Oracle presented at Cloud Field Day last month. They specifically focused on their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He appreciate what Oracle is trying to do with their infrastructure SLAs, which can represent significant risk reduction for more timid organizations. Overall he found their messaging and solutions should keep them relevant in the overall cloud infrastructure conversation.
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Head in the Clouds: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Running Native Applications in a Browser with Droplet Computing
Nick Janetakis saw the launch of Droplet Computing last month at Cloud Field Day. He found the company’s mission to run native applications online or offline in a browser on any device to be genuinely cool technology. Using their Universal Container Runtime, they can run applications without worrying about the underlying OS or architecture. Most importantly, this isn’t just a concept. While still early days, Droplet disclosed that their tech is being used by companies in production. Nick was definitely intrigued by what he saw.
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Running Native Applications in a Browser with Droplet Computing
Episode 54: Get up, eat omelet, throw chair
On this episode of the Buffer Overflow podcast, Ned Bellavance talks about what he saw from Droplet Computing with their company debut at Cloud Field Day. They utilize browser-based containerization using Web Assembly to run applications independent of OS or architecture.
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Episode 54: Get up, eat omelet, throw chair
My Life as a Tech Impostor
Being invited to Cloud Field Day caused Ned Bellavance to think about Imposter Syndrome. He’s found that in technology, not knowing every thing doesn’t make you an imposter, because everyone is in the same boat. Instead of worrying about being an imposter, he leaves the piece with some great advice: Know what you know. Learn what you can. Be generous those willing to learn. Learn from those willing to share.
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Veritas 360 – CloudPoint
Following a presentation by Veritas at Cloud Field Day, Ned Bellavance wanted to try out CloudPoint, their cloud-native backup solution. In this post, he documents how to get through setup and install of CloudPoint. After a few hiccups, he walks through backing up and recovering VMs on Azure. Ned sees a lot of interesting ideas in CloudPoint, and hopes that Veritas will continue to invest in it to get it production ready.
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Innovate or Die? Three Ways to Cloud Enablement
At Cloud Field Day last month, Ned Bellavance got to thinking about how companies approach cloud enablement. After seeing a variety of approaches, he highlights three ways for companies to succeed at this difficult task.
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Innovate or Die? Three Ways to Cloud Enablement
ThinkPiece: Cloud Field Day: Can an old dog, learn new tricks?
At Cloud Field Day Michelle Laverick saw some encouraging sign from established companies adapting to the reality of the cloud. NetApp, Oracle, and Veritas all showed that despite being incumbent companies, they have identified how to be competitive against newer cloud-focused startups. This often involved spinning up entirely new teams that can operate with agility. Not every company was convincing in their cloud play, but Michelle was definitely impressed to see older companies making moves to stay competitive with the cloud giants.
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ThinkPiece: Cloud Field Day: Can an old dog, learn new tricks?
Pure Storage – You’ve Come A Long Way
With Pure Accelerate coming up next week, Dan Frith takes a look back at how Pure Storage has evolved, but stayed true to their core focus since debuting their first products in 2011. He’s looking forward to seeing what they have in store for this year’s event.
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Pure Storage - You’ve Come A Long Way
VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network Fulfills the SDN Promise
At Networking Field Day Exclusive with VMware, Jordan Martin saw how the company’s Virtual Cloud Network integrates different domains into a coherent orchestration and policy engine. For him, it delivers on the initial promises made by software-defined networking.
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VMware's Virtual Cloud Network Fulfills the SDN Promise
Step by Step – Install Veeam Availability Orchestrator
Karel Novak wrote up a step-by-step guide on how to get up and running with Veeam’s Availability Orchestrator. The original post is in Czech, but there’s an English translation available here: https://goo.gl/TQpjtP
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Step by Step – Install Veeam Availability Orchestrator
VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network: Riding the Wave of Digital Transformation
Eyvonne Sharp takes a look at Virtual Cloud Network, which she saw at length during Networking Field Day Exclusive with VMware last week. For her, this represents the first glimpse into how the company will integrate their VeloCloud acquisition into their already robust software stack.
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VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network: Riding the Wave of Digital Transformation
PowerMax, VMAX, XtremIO – the Agony of Choice
Chris Evans looks at Dell EMC’s newly announced PowerMax, an all-NVMe storage array. When fully configured, PowerMax can hit up to 10 million IOPS at under 300 microseconds of latency, while still being able to access the mature data service of their VMAX line. Chris raises a similar to point to Dell EMC’s XtremeIO presentation at Storage Field Day last year, that with many families of storage arrays, Dell EMC needs to be very clear which line is best for prospective customers.
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