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.
What’s The Deal With Containers, Anyway?
In this keynote from Deltaware Data Solutions’ 2016 Emerging Technology Summit, Stephen Foskett gives essential background on the emerging trend of containerization of enterprise applications. What are containers and how will they affect enterprise IT? Why is Docker so important? Foskett addresses both the technical and architectural questions, discussing which applications will be containerized, the benefits and costs, and what it means for IT operations.
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What's The Deal With Containers, Anyway?
Tech Field Day: Seven Years Later
Tech Field Day is seven years old! Organizer in Chief Stephen Foskett looks back on how it got started, how its grown, and what the future looks like (spoiler: awesome)!
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Tech Field Day: Seven Years Later
Hardware has set the pace for latency, time for software to catch up
Jon Klaus thinks software needs to catch up to SSDs for reducing application latency. Initially, SSDs were limited by storage processors and buses build with spinning disks in mind. This has largely been remedied, so where’s the next big performance bottleneck? Latency. Jon looks at how Intel’s Storage Performance Development Kit, presented at Storage Field Day in October, effects latency by replacing the traditional Linux kernel in storage controllers.
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Hardware has set the pace for latency, time for software to catch up
Tech Field Day 12
John White writes about going from attending the OpenStack Summit in Austin earlier this year to attending Tech Field Day Extra in Vegas this August. Now he’s been invited to Tech Field Day next week, and he calls it a “dream come true.”
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A Warning in Time – PRTG
Alastair Cooke joined the Tech Field Day delegate panel at both VMworld US and Europe this year, and he used the Barcelona experience to get PRTG up and running. Good thing he did! PRTG caught a disk capacity issue before he ever noticed it! Uploading 80 videos in 3 days will do that. vBrownBag + Tech Field Day + PRTG = great!
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Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Igneous Systems
Matt Crape is a first-time Tech Field Day delegate but he’s jumping in with a series of blog posts about the presenters. Here’s his take on Igneous Systems, which seems to be getting a lot of delegate interest! Matt details their dataBox storage device, which can leverage local storage for cloud-native apps to provide improved speeds for users, as well as mitigating privacy and security concerns.
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Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Igneous Systems
Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Rubrik
First-time Field Day delegate Matt Crape takes a look at Rubrik, a familiar face at the event series. He talks about their various configurable “briks” hardware appliances and their scale-out approach, which allows for superior dedupe and compression rates compared to legacy systems. He then dives into their Firefly release (announced at Tech Field Day 10) and how data can be managed by policy to promote simplicity. Watch Matt’s blog and twitter during and after Rubrik’s Nov. 16 presentation to learn more!
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Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Rubrik
DriveScale set to make first ever Tech Field Day appearance!
Mike Preston takes a look at DriveScale, a company founded in 2013 by former executives from Nuova, Sun Microsystems, and Silicon Image, but just out of stealth mode this May. He tries to make sense of their scale-up/scale-out pitch, which allows them to add compute or capacity vertically or horizontally with access arbitrated by software defined physical nodes and DriveScale’s Management Server, with connectivity via 10 Gb Ethernet. Mike is really looking forward to a deep dive into the product at Tech Field Day in November!
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DriveScale set to make first ever Tech Field Day appearance!
Igneous bringing the cloud to you at Tech Field Day
Mike Preston continues his investigation into Tech Field Day presenters with a look at Igneous.IO, a “true cloud for local data”. The Igneous solution is like nothing we’ve seen before – a hardware cloud system deployed inside a data center but with pay-as-you-go pricing. Best of all, they install and manage the system throughout its lifetime. It’s compatible with Amazon and Google API’s, so it should work with existing applications. It sounds like Mike and the Field Day delegates are very interested in learning more!
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Igneous bringing the cloud to you at Tech Field Day
Intel SPDK – A foundation block for new generation storage
Max Mortillaro tackles the topic of storage latency in his latest post. Inspired by the Intel Storage presentation at Storage Field Day, he discusses the history of storage latency and presents the need for faster software. He then discusses Intel’s Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK), which might allow software latency to approach the performance of modern solid-state storage.
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Intel SPDK - A foundation block for new generation storage
Drill Baby, Drill! (into NetFlow with Kentik)
After being introduced to Kentik at Networking Field Day in August, Dustin Beare got some hands-on time with the tool. Now that he’s had a chance to use Data Explorer, what does he think? Overall, Dustin came away impressed, citing Data Explorer’s simplicity in viewing traffic flowing into a network. Kentik made it easy to pull specific queries out of NetFlow data.
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Drill Baby, Drill! (into NetFlow with Kentik)
Networking Field Day 13: Previewing the Sponsors Part 2
Networking Field Day 13: Previewing the Sponsors Part 2
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Networking Field Day 13: Previewing the Sponsors Part 2
TFD 12 Primer: Cohesity
TFD 12 Primer: Cohesity
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Il Tech Field Day
Il Tech Field Day
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StorageOS to take the stage at Tech Field Day 12
StorageOS to take the stage at Tech Field Day 12
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StorageOS to take the stage at Tech Field Day 12
Public cloud IaaS: is it really that cheap?
Public cloud IaaS: is it really that cheap?
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Public cloud IaaS: is it really that cheap?
Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
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Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
#TFDx at VMworld EU 2016 – Nimble Storage
#TFDx at VMworld EU 2016 – Nimble Storage
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#TFDx at VMworld EU 2016 – Nimble Storage
The Future of NAS is Object Storage
The Future of NAS is Object Storage
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The Future of NAS is Object Storage
Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?
Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?
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