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.
CFD2 Prep: Accelerite
Getting ready for Cloud Field Day, Justin Warren introduces Accelerite. He focusses on Accelerite’s Rovius and is especially curious about its hybrid nature. Justin is looking forward to what Accelerite has to offer and what they focus on at Cloud Field Day.
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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: NetApp
Julian Wood previews NetApp in preparation for their Cloud Field Day presentation. He gives a quick history and talks about NetApp’s expansion into cloud. He is interested to see what the storage giant will offer in the cloud realm.
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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: NetApp
Cloud Field Day 2 – First Time Caller
Bryan Krausen is thrilled to be attending Cloud Field Day event this month. In this post, he expresses his excitement to be a delegate, lists the presenting companies, and talks about the logistics of the event.
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Cloud Field Day 2 – First Time Caller
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Accelerite
With Cloud Field Day just around the corner, Julian Wood gives a preview of Accelerite. Here he talks CloudPlatform, Rovius, and IoT, saying, “Accelerite has much bigger dreams than being “just” a cloud management platform.” Julian is excited for Field Day and looking forward to hearing more from Accelerite!
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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Accelerite
Quick take: A conversation with Opengear at Cisco Live US in Las Vegas
Robert Novak shares his thoughts on Cisco Live US and Opengear. He discusses Opengear’s story, the evolution of console server/terminal server technology, and some more general technology perspectives. And he makes a reference to Tech Field Day at Cisco Live way back in 2013!
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Quick take: A conversation with Opengear at Cisco Live US in Las Vegas
Cloud Field Day 2: Preparing to rock!
Preparing for Cloud Field Day, Lino Telera outlines what he’s looking forward to at the event. He focuses on HPE Nimble Storage’s multicloud storage, ServiceNow’s approach to providing tools for compliance during task execution without impacts, and Gigamon’s network monitoring tactics.
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Cloud Field Day 2: Preparing to rock!
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Nirmata
Julian Wood gives a brief history of Nirmata in preparation for their presentation at Cloud Field Day. Then he asks the question, “why would you chose to go with Nirmata?” He looks forward to learning more about Nirmata to answer this question completely, but for now his answer praises their managed app catalogue for enterprise.
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Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Nirmata
Mobility Field 2 Shows Evolving Nature of WLAN Industry
Lee Badman says that the upcoming Mobility Field Day shows the evolution of the WLAN industry saying ” MFD2 is more about performance measurement and alternatives to the WLAN same-old.” He also notes that the market is changing with several big players relegating their WLAN parts to non-headline status, as well as Extreme Networks buying up the other players and reducing the number of competitors.
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Mobility Field 2 Shows Evolving Nature of WLAN Industry
One week to MFD2: What’s in store
Less than a week from Mobility Field Day, Jake Snyder introduces what he will be looking forward to from each presenter. This includes Mist Networks’ approach to big data analytics, Cape Networks’ cloud based wireless network monitoring, as well as the future plans of Nyansa, Mojo Networks, and Netscout.
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One week to MFD2: What's in store
10 on Tech Episode 023 – Andrew Sullivan on Enabling Customers with Open Source
In this episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, James Green from ActualTechMedia interviews Andrew Sullivan and Brendan Wolfe of NetApp. They discuss why enterprise technology vendors invest in open source projects for the benefit of their customers, how strategic commitment from vendors to certain open source projects gives customers a sense of security, and NetApp’s “Trident” storage provisioner for Kubernetes.
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10 on Tech Episode 023 - Andrew Sullivan on Enabling Customers with Open Source
Cisco SDA – Moving Software Defined to the Access Layer
Brandon Carroll attended Cisco Live US and Tech Field Day Extra where he saw a presentation on Cisco’s “The Network Intuitive.” Here, he describes what Software-Defined Access is and how it works as well as what he thinks of Cisco’s plan. He writes, “Complex network functions could be simplified if Cisco truly delivers SD-Access in they way they’ve described it… this could be a turning point for Cisco where they have a serious opportunity to be leaders in software defined network.”
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Cisco SDA – Moving Software Defined to the Access Layer
X-IO Technologies Axellio At SFD13
Brandon Graves gives some background on X-IO’s founding and company history before discussing their new, unique, and specialized storage solution, Axellio. He goes into the hardware specifics, architecture, and performance of Axellio, then provides his own opinion saying X-IO “are one of the few companies that are doing something different when all the storage products are starting to look the same.”
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X-IO Technologies Axellio At SFD13
WISP/FISP Design – Building your future MPLS network with whitebox switching
IP Infusion presented at Networking Field Day in April. Here, Kevin Myers discusses the role of whitebox in a WISP/FISP MPLS core and compares whitebox to the traditional vendor. He also says, “whitebox is poised for rapid growth in the network world, as the climate is finally becoming favorable – even in larger companies – to use commodity hardware and not be entirely dependent on incumbent network vendors.”
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WISP/FISP Design – Building your future MPLS network with whitebox switching
Long Term Data Retention – What do I do?
Prompted by StorageCraft’s presentation at Storage Field Day, Alex Galbraith answers questions about long term data retention. This includes describing what the regulatory requirements are for long-term data retention as well as the consequences of losing said data. He also discusses StorageCraft’s latest backup software iteration which includes a local cache with cloud integration and the added ability to spin up a disaster recovery environment in the event of an outage to your primary data center.
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Long Term Data Retention - What do I do?
Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?
Based on Dell EMC’s presentation on Unity at Storage Field Day, Alex Galbraith poses the question: “Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?”
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Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?
Pure1 META – Analytics for Pure Storage Arrays
After Pure Accelerate 2017, Chris Evans analyzes Pure Storage’s new storage array analytics solution, Pure1 META and its interesting testing applications.
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Pure1 META – Analytics for Pure Storage Arrays
Cisco Live 2017, engineering awesomeness
Amy Arnold reflects on her experience at Tech Field Day and Cisco Live US, reviewing OpenGear’s new API, Paessler’s new monitoring solution, and NetApp’s FlexPod SF.
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Cisco Live 2017, engineering awesomeness
Off The Cuff – Conferences And Social Media For Engineers
The Network Collective Podcast panel at Cisco Live US discusses the career changing value of conferences and social media for network engineers.
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Off The Cuff - Conferences And Social Media For Engineers
NetApp: Old Dogs Learning New Tricks
After attending their Tech Field Day presentation, Jon Hildebrand reviews the transformation of NetApp saying, “the goal is easier accessibility by those that aren’t traditionally data center specific personnel. I really believe that NetApp is on the right path in being able to do so.”
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Not The Cisco of John Chambers Anymore
Based on his experience at Cisco Live US, Tom Hollingsworth discusses signs of a very different Cisco under new CEO Chuck Robins. Robins’ focus on software over hardware and a more hands on leadership style will lead to big changes within this iconic company.
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