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.
Cumulus Linux and NetQ
Richard McIntosh saw a presentation from a whitebox company for the first time at Networking Field Day in January, and it left an impression. Cumulus Networks presented on their Cumulus Linux and NetQ. What struck Richard is that the entire system is just a Linux distribution. This allows admins to use familiar tools for their networking, rather than have to adapt to a proprietary solution.
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Storage Field Day 15 – Watch Live Here
For those not able to attend Storage Field Day this week, never fear. The entire event is live streamed, with full video available soon after on YouTube and Vimeo. Chan Ekanayake shared the live stream on his blog. Make sure to watch, and ask any questions using #SFD15 during the event.
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Storage Field Day 15 – Watch Live Here
Starwind software: SFD15 preview
The first Storage Field Day of 2018 kicks off this week in Silicon Valley. Arjan Timmerman will be in attendance and wrote up a preview of one of the presenters, Starwind. This is their second time presenting, during their first presentation at Storage Field Day, they discussed HCI solution, AcloudA, Veeam VTL and Cloud replication. Arjan is interesting in hearing what they have to say this time around.
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Starwind software: SFD15 preview
ScaleIO Becomes Software Defined on Hardware
Chris Evans got to see a bit from Dell EMC’s ScaleIO division last year. But the company has decided to shake up the offering by taking the former software product, and tying it directly to VxRack hardware. This comes after a reorganization for the company, that seems to show them focusing more strictly on hardware sales.
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ScaleIO Becomes Software Defined on Hardware
Security has failed! Forcepoint has not.
Raff Poltronieri was struck by Forcepoint’s presentation at Tech Field Day. It isn’t often and security company will be upfront with a statement like “security has failed” to lead their presentation. This talk outlined the failings of traditional security, and illustrated how Forcepoint is User Enhanced Behaviour Analysis to give better insights into potential security vectors.
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Security has failed! Forcepoint has not.
Data In The Context of Digital Transformation
James Green got to get a close look at SolarWinds’ Pingdom Visitor Insights at Tech Field Day last month. In the past, James might have looked at this as a simple uptime monitor for websites. However after getting a closer look, he realizes that what Pingdom enables isn’t just data collection of uptime, but the contextual information to tie technical metrics to behavior.
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Data In The Context of Digital Transformation
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