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.
MEDIA ALERT: Delphix Hosts Gestalt IT’s Cloud Field Day 3, Exploring the Relationship Between “Data and the Cloud”
We’re looking forward to hearing from Delphix at Cloud Field Day this week. Their presentation will focus on the relationship between “Data and the Cloud” in today’s era of digital transformation. Watch the live stream and join the conversation on Twitter using #CFD3.
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Heading to Cloud Field Day 3
We’re thrilled to welcome first time delegate Chris Porter to Cloud Field Day this week. He’s crossed the pond to join his fellow delegates for three days of presentations from a loaded group of cloud companies. He’s excited to hear from established companies that are refocusing to cloud like Oracle, NetApp, Riverbed and Veritas. Make sure to watch along on the live stream and send in any questions on Twitter using #CFD3.
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To Vegas And Back with Keith R Parsons
Keith Parson and the WiFi of Everything crew were recently in Vegas for Aruba Atmosphere. In this panel, they discuss what they saw at the show, and the experience of Mobility Field Day Extra.
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To Vegas And Back with Keith R Parsons
Considering The Future Of Juniper’s Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten
Greg Farro runs down the implecations of OpenContrail moving from a more Juniper Networks controlled open source project to the Linux Foundation. To accompany this change, OpenContrail is being rebranded to Tungsten Fabric. Greg compares this to what he saw of Juniper’s main Contrail platform, which continues to add features specifically for the enterprise market to make it viable in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.
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Considering The Future Of Juniper's Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten
My thoughts on Aruba’s Atmosphere 2018
Robert Boardman shares his thoughts from Aruba Atmosphere 2018 in this post. He enjoyed seeing more of NetInsight, the analytics platform that came out of Aruba’s acquisition of Rasa Networks. He also enjoyed the roundtable discussions coming out of Mobility Field Day Extra held at the event.
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My thoughts on Aruba's Atmosphere 2018
CFD3 Prep Post: Riverbed
Justin Warren continues his preview posts for the upcoming presenters at Cloud Field Day, turning now toward Riverbed. He reviews how the company has grown from one focused on WAN optimization solutions, to SD-WAN and acquiring Xirrus. He’s looking forward to hearing their cloud story, including how they can extend their unified network fabric as an extension of their SD-WAN implementation.
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What is Redfish?
Andrea Mauro wrote up on explainer of Redfish, the open industry standard specification, API and schema that specifies RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and Data. He highlights why it’s designed to supplant the Intelligent Platform Management Interface due to its extensive support of scripting languages and RESTful APIs. He sees it as mature enough to replace IPMI or proprietary solutions like Dell’s iDRAC.
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OpenContrail & dNOS Join The Linux Foundation, Get New Names
Drew Conry-Murray highlights the addition of two projects to the Linux Foundation, OpenContrail and dNOS. Drew got to hear about developments on OpenContrail at Networking Field Day from Juniper Networks, which is an open source derivation of their proprietary Contrail software. Drew isn’t sure if either project will become a major disruptor in the enterprise networking space, but he thinks the increasing move to open sourcing these projects will lead to “breaking the stranglehold of legacy vendors on how networks are built and operated.”
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OpenContrail & dNOS Join The Linux Foundation, Get New Names
Huawei Dorado – All about Speed
At Storage Field Day last month, Chin-Fah Heoh and the other delegates got to hear Huawei present for the first time. The presentation went into an architectural deep dive on Dorado V3, their premiere all-flash storage array. Chin-Fah was impressed with the speed the array is capable of, even with triple parity RAID. He’s looking forward to seeing more from the company going forward.
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Huawei Dorado – All about Speed
Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Veritas
Chris Evans gives a preview of Veritas ahead of their presentation at Cloud Field Day this week. The company is traditionally associated with storage, so Chris is interested in hearing their cloud story, particularly around CloudMobility and CloudPoint. He’s interested to hear how they differentiate these offerings from competing companies in their space.
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Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Veritas
Wireless Thoughts From Aruba Atmosphere
Tom Hollingsworth recently got back from Tech Field Day Extra at Aruba Atmosphere. In this post, he shares some initial thoughts from the event, including how the Rasa Networks assets showing up in Aruba NetInsights, interesting security applications, and awesome demos.
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Wireless Thoughts From Aruba Atmosphere
IT Security Is a People Problem
Forcepoint had a rather unique presentation at Tech Field Day in February. The company focused on the failing of traditional security, and how they have solutions to address the largely ignored risk of security breaches inside an organization. Alastair Cooke wrote up his thoughts on their User and Entity Behaviour Analytics. Provided an organization discloses that these kind of analytics are being done, Alastair found it an interesting addition to an organization’s security toolset.
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IT Security Is a People Problem
Storage Field Day 15 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
Dan Frith finishes up his posts from Storage Field Day with his usual “Link-o-rama”, containing his extensive series of posts, as well as sharing pieces from his fellow delegates. If you missed any of the event, make sure to checkout Dan’s reviews of the presentations.
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Storage Field Day 15 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama
Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Druva
Chris Evans continues his previews of Cloud Field Day presenters, ahead of next week’s event. In this post, he turns his eye toward Druva. He outlines how the company began in endpoint protection, but now with their Druva Cloud Platform protects Iaas, PaaS and SaaS applications. He thinks the company’s direction has promise, and he’s looking forward to seeing them at Cloud Field Day.
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Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Druva
Druva Announces Cloud Platform Enhancements | penguinpunk.net
Dan Frith takes a look at the Druva Cloud Platform. This provides data management as a service, allowing you to provide protection for all your assets within a single service and interface. Dan first saw the company at Tech Field Day Extra VMworld US in 2017, and is looking forward to getting reacquainted next week when they present at Cloud Field Day.
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Druva Announces Cloud Platform Enhancements | penguinpunk.net
Own the Data Pipeline
In this post, Chin-Fah Heoh takes a look at NetApp’s Data Pipeline, which they outlined during their Storage Field Day presentation earlier this month. Chin-Fah puts the idea of a data pipeline into historical context, and looks at how NetApp is using it for AI workloads.
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California here I Come – Cloud Field Day
We’re excited to have Michelle Laverick coming out to Silicon Valley for Cloud Field Day next week. She’ll be seeing a wide range of companies in the cloud infrastructure market, including two “secret companies”! It’ll be a week full of presentations and insightful questions. Be sure to watch along on our livestream, as well as joining the conversation on Twitter using #CFD3.
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California here I Come – Cloud Field Day
CFD3 Prep Post: Oracle
Justin Warren is excited to be coming to Cloud Field Day. In this preview, he provides some background on Oracle, a seemingly surprising entrant at a cloud focused event. Justin outlines the recently changes in Oracle’s strategy, as well as key acquisitions, that have made the company one to watch in the cloud market.
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Hedvig’s Evolution
When he first saw Hedvig in 2016, Dan Frith already thought they had a good story around scalable, software-defined storage. After seeing them again at Storage Field Day this month, he found increased maturity around their interface and data protection features. Instead of having to drop into the CLI, all tasks during the presentation were easily handled in their GUI. He thinks the improvements shown demonstrate a company that listens to the needs of their customers.
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Datrium Cloud DVX – Not Your Father’s Cloud Data Protection Solution
Datrium presented at their second Storage Field Day, providing details on their Cloud DVX solution. Dan Frith wrote up his thoughts on it, and whether it lives up to Datrium’s claim of being “Cloud Backup Done Right”. Compared to a lot of “cloud-ready” data protection solution, Dan found Cloud DVX to be an “elegant solution”, with a lot of efficiency that should be very appealing to Datrium customers.
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Datrium Cloud DVX – Not Your Father’s Cloud Data Protection Solution