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.
Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
Extreme Networks and Juniper Networks made an impression with Tom Hollingsworth after Networking Field Day in January. For him, the Extreme Networks showed why they lead the way in their bottom-up approach to automation. He then breaks down how Juniper distinguishes themselves with their top-down orchestration tooling.
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Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
Back to Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 15
Storage Field Day kicks off 2018 in Silicon Valley next week. Lino Telera will be in attendance and a delegate. He’s looking forward to hearing from first time presenters like Huawei and IBM. Make sure to follow along with all the delegates on our live stream, as well as joining the conversation on Twitter with #SFD15.
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Back to Silicon Valley for Storage Field Day 15
Storage is boring
After hearing from DellEMC on their XtremeIO and VMAX solutions at Tech Field Day, Keith discusses why storage is boring. Of course, for the enterprise, boring is not a bad thing.
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Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
Tech Field Day delegates Keith Townsend and Sonia Cuff discuss he concept of cloud access security broker, or CASB. This is done in light of a presentation by Forcepoint at the event.
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Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
Solarwinds Orion Integration
At a recent Tech Field Day event, Keith Townsend was able to talk to Solarwinds Orion Product Manager Michael Yang about some of the integration points between their extensive portfolio of products.
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The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions
Andy Bechtolsheim is no stranger to anyone familiar with IT networking infrastructure co-founding Sun Microsystems and Arista Networks among many other ventures. In this piece, Timothy Morgan looks at a recent Tech Field Day presentation by him with a roadmap to 400 Gb/sec Ethernet switching in the datacenter.
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The Road To 400G Ethernet Is Paved With Bechtolsheim’s Intentions
#TFD16 Wrap Up: How the OpenManage Team Met 12 IT Bloggers…
Dell EMC’s OpenManage team presented at Tech Field Day a few weeks ago. In this piece, Dell EMC’s Jeremy Erwin shares some of the video segments from their session, as well as highlights some of the great conversation between our delegates and the company.
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#TFD16 Wrap Up: How the OpenManage Team Met 12 IT Bloggers...
Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
We had the priviledge to have Scott Delandy present with Dell EMC at Tech Field Day last week. He discussed the evolution of high end storage over the last three decade. This included a look at the “boring because it just works” VMAX updates, and why boring is actually cool.
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Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Storage Field Day 15
We’re happy to see Dukagjin Maloku returning for his second Storage Field Day event next month. He’s looking forward to the full schedule of presenting companies and getting to discuss the presentations with his fellow delegates. Make sure to follow #SFD15 on Twitter to follow the conversation.
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Security at Scale: User Behavioral Analytics
Forcepoint presented at Tech Field Day last week, and Edward Haletky shares his impressions in this post. He focuses on the company’s user and entity behavioral analytics tool that’s used to determine what behaviors are “risky” for a given user. This is vital for organizations trying to stay secure at scale.
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Security at Scale: User Behavioral Analytics
Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
Chris Evans published another post in his ongoing series about data mobility in hybrid cloud. In this post, he looks at Global NAS and other distributed storage solutions, and includes a consideration of how to deal with data consistency. Solutions from NooBaa, Qumulo, Weka, Elastifile, Hedvig and Datera are included in this overview.
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Data Mobility - Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 15
Dan Frith will be traveling from Australia into the land of yesterday to attend Storage Field Day in Silicon Valley next month. The event has a good mix of new and familiar companies for Dan. He’s sure to have up some quality coverage soon after the event, stay tuned!
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Storage Field Day – I’ll Be At Storage Field Day 15
What to expect from Tech Field Day 16
It was exciting to have Sonia Cuff at Tech Field Day this time around. Make sure to check out all of her coverage, including this Tech Field Day 101 post!
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What to expect from Tech Field Day 16
Here’s your next storage IPO. Rubrik gets its revenue and leadership ducks in a row
In this post, Ben Kepes looks at recent moves by Rubrik as indicative of an upcoming IPO. This includes adding Microsoft’s John Thompson to their board, naming former Atlassian CFO Murray Demo to the same position, and strong sales numbers. We’ll be keeping an eye on the company to see if 2018 is the year of their IPO.
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Here’s your next storage IPO. Rubrik gets its revenue and leadership ducks in a row
Tech Field Day Culture and Values
Alastair Cooke is out in Austin for Tech Field Day this week. He’s no stranger to the events, so he shares some of his personal rules and best practices to get the most out of the event. We’re looking forward to seeing what he thinks of the presentations this time around.
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Tech Field Day Culture and Values
Holistic full stack monitoring with Uila
Andrea Mauro originally heard of Uila at Tech Field Day last year. He’s been following the company’s holistic full stack monitoring and visualization since then. In this post, he shares some updates the company has released since that presentation.
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Holistic full stack monitoring with Uila
My dilemma of stateful storage marriage
Chin-Fah Heoh has been thinking about stateful data in stateful storage containers and how they would interact with distributed applications containers and functions-as-a-service. This led to a consideration of what a distributed data systems would look like, wherein the idea of a “data center” seems like an oxymoron. He’s seen some past Storage Field Day companies offer pieces on how to get to a distributed data system. Chin-Fah will be at Storage Field Day next month, and looks forward to seeing how Hedvig and WekaIO will offer more pieces to this puzzle.
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My dilemma of stateful storage marriage
Storage Field Day 15 – Introduction
We’re looking forward to having Chan Ekanayake return for his second Storage Field Day in Silicon Valley next month. In this preview of the event, he looks at what he expects from each of the presenting companies. He’ll be seeing some familiar Storage Field Day delegates, and meeting many new ones as well. Make sure to follow Chan’s posts after the event to see what he thought of the presenters.
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Storage Field Day 15 – Introduction
Tech Field Day 2017: An Enthusiastic Retrospective
When Nikki Schnupp joined the Tech Field Day team, she was greeted with two events back to back within a week of starting. Much like a delegate at the event, she drank from the IT firehose, learning about the personalities and technology as presented. It was a singular experience. Make sure to check out her entire look back in this piece.
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Tech Field Day 2017: An Enthusiastic Retrospective
Converged Infrastructure died a long time ago, right?
Should converged infrastructure have died a long time ago? Keith Townsend discusses on this CTO Advisor video, in light of the release of the Dell EMC VxBlock 1000. He argues that while CI might not be the hot new trend in IT, lots of customers still want and need it, especially in cases where applications aren’t certified to run on HCI. Keith is excited to hear more from Dell EMC on this at Tech Field Day next week.
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