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.
BiB009: Pluribus Insight Analytics Platform
On an episode of the Briefings in Brief podcast, Ethan Banks discusses what he saw from Pluribus Networks at Networking Field Day last month. This includes not only their switching portfolio, but their Insight Analytics platform.
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BiB009: Pluribus Insight Analytics Platform
Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
Keith Townsend looks at the implications of one of the biggest announcements from DockerCon Europe 2017, the inclusion of Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise Edition. Since launching, Docker has been developer focused, but often lacked management tools to manage workloads at scale. As the industry has converged on Kubernetes as an orchestrator, Keith looks at how Docker can still differentiate by including in in Docker EE.
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Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
The challenge of doing data management at scale
Ahead of being a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2017, Max Mortillaro looks at problems of data management. This centers around the creation of isolated data silos, which Max refers to as data archipelagos. These may simplify some operational considerations, but also inherently cause sprawl and overall inefficiency of resources. However the opposite, the dream of a global namespace is often impossible due to regulatory and data sovereignty requirements. In this light, Max considers if data management isn’t a necessary evil, but a business enabler to bridge these two extremes into something more functional.
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The challenge of doing data management at scale
CTS 089: Mojo Networks & The Client Journey at MFD2
On the latest episode of the Clear to Send podcast, the crew takes a look at Mojo Networks’ presentation from Mobility Field Day this summer. They talk about hearing from CEO Rick Wilmer, Mojo’s work with open standards, and the new Mojo Aware client visibility feature they offer.
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CTS 089: Mojo Networks & The Client Journey at MFD2
Back to SFO for Storage Field Day 14! – FastStorage
Storage Field Day is coming up next month, and we’re happy to have the inimitable Jon Klaus returning! Returning for his seventh Storage Field Day, expect plenty of probing questions, quality analysis and stroopwafels from Jon as he sees presentations from Dell EMC, E8 Storage, and Scality.
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Back to SFO for Storage Field Day 14! - FastStorage
NetApp at DockerCon – What’s that about then?
For Ian Sanderson, he thought of NetApp as just another storage vendor. After seeing their Tech Field Day Extra presentation from DockerCon EU, he’s definitely changed his tune! He was impressed with the company’s efforts to fully support containers across their product portfolio, as well as putting in lots of open source code via The Pub.
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NetApp at DockerCon - What’s that about then?
Looking at Commvault GO 2017
The 2nd annual Commvault GO conference takes place in Washington DC November 6-8. Rich Stroffolino takes a look at the speakers, sessions, and other highlights announced. The conference may be new, but seems laser focused on the company’s data management vision.
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MoSMB, Less Problems
MoSMB from Ryussi offers a proprietary SMB3 alternative to SAMBA for Linux and Unix systems. Rich Stroffolino looks at it’s feature set and why this may be the sweet spot for many NAS vendors looking for something more robust than SAMBA.
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SNIA Hops on DePop with Hyperscalers
SNIA presented at Storage Field Day, discussing how hyperscalers are effecting the storage industry as a whole. These businesses command so much storage that they can exert direct feature requests to component makers due to their unique scale. Rich Stroffolino looks at the effects of low percentage tail latency on application performance, and the DePop standard that was developed to address it.
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SNIA Hops on DePop with Hyperscalers
AOS Bridging Two Worlds
At Networking Field Day last month, Apstra showed off version 2.0 of AOS, with a focus on how the OS can be used by developers. Previously Apstra had focused on operation applications of AOS, but with this new persona developers are able to create sophisticated AOS application products for operators to use on the platform. In this piece, Apstra’s Jeremy Schulman makes the case that this allows for businesses to stay agile and help operations and develops stay in step across network functions.
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No Strings Attached Show E64 – Wireless AI
On the latest No Strings Attached Show Blake Krone sits down with Bob Friday from Mist Systems. They discuss what AI means for wireless networks and engineers alike discussing how AI will help not replace the Wireless engineer.
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Notes from Dockercon 2017 – Copenhagen
For Alex Ellis, DockerCon Europe 2017 was well worth some expensive Copenhagen coffee. The big announcement from the show was that Docker Enterprise Edition will now be bundled with Kubernetes. He also enjoyed talking with various Docker Captains, as well as presenting on OpenFaaS at a Tech Field Day Extra presentation.
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Notes from Dockercon 2017 - Copenhagen
InfiniBox: solving the enterprise storage cost vs performance equation?
Infinidat will be presenting at Storage Field Day next year, but Max Mortillaro has an extensive preview of the company out now. He gives an overview of their software-defined storage solution, InfiniBox. Max sees it as an interesting solution for primary storage than offer petabyte-scale solution, high availability, and efficient caching without the expense of an AFA.
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InfiniBox: solving the enterprise storage cost vs performance equation?
Understanding Serverless Computing
Serverless computing doesn’t mean there are no servers involved. Instead, as Keith Townsend explains in this post, it abstracts the infrastructure away from a developer, letting them focus on code not on what it will run on. He further explains how this leads to more efficient consumption of cloud resources, which are only used when a function is called.
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Understanding Serverless Computing
Automated Testing & Intent Verification for Network Operations
Jason Edelman considers why networks often lack the robust testing tools that are the bedrock of software development. He recently saw a solution from Veriflow at Networking Field Day that might move networking closer to having better preemptive testing. They offer built in consistency and intent-based checks to define the state of the network and when something appears out of compliance. He also likes that their platform exposes all of this functionality via a RESTful API.
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Automated Testing & Intent Verification for Network Operations
DataCore Divides & Conquers to Increase SQL Server Performance
DataCore Software’s newly released MaxParallel for SQL Server offers an interesting IO optimization feature to help prevent bottlenecks. Matt Crape thinks the solution has some interesting application for distributing an otherwise heavy workload to make it more manageable. He’s interested in learning more about it in the future and getting into the weeds on how it works.
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DataCore Divides & Conquers to Increase SQL Server Performance
Cisco auf dem Tech Field Day Extra der DockerCon EU 17
Jens Soeldner shares his experiences from DockerCon Europe from earlier this month. He attended Tech Field Day Extra sessions for OpenFaaS and Cisco. German readers, make sure to check it out!
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Cisco auf dem Tech Field Day Extra der DockerCon EU 17
#CiscoChampion Radio, S4|Ep.14: All About Tech Field Day
Cisco presented at last month’s Tech Field Day and Networking Field Day events, and has a long history of excellent presentations. Stephen Foskett was their guest on their Cisco Champion Radio podcast and discussed what makes the events special.
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#CiscoChampion Radio, S4|Ep.14: All About Tech Field Day
Apstra: Networking by Intent
Pete Welcher got to see more from Apstra at last month’s Networking Field Day. The company is pushing back on other companies jumping on the intent-based networking bandwagon, calling it “intent washing”. Pete remains impressed that the company clearly defines what they mean by intent, remain firmly hardware agnostic, and approaching their intent fabric as a single managed entity. This presentation focused on how developers can use Apstra’s intent-based features, which impressed Pete with the versatility for a number of different network roles.
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Cape Networks Sees Into the WLAN- and Deeper
Lee Badman takes some inspiration from They Might Be Giants to look at what he saw from Cape Networks at Mobility Field Day this past July. Their wireless monitoring solution uses a variety of tests to give visibility into WLAN/LAN/ISP functionality. Lee’s impressed by how Cape has refined their offerings, consistently providing new features with updates and improving the granularity of their dashboard.
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