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.
AI Acceleration, Chip Competition & Market Overheating
The Techstrong Gang explores the intensifying competition within the AI chip market, highlighting how this rivalry is leading to innovations and challenges, including market overheating. They examine the impact on businesses and their technology strategies, particularly focusing on the acceleration of AI capabilities and its implications for industry standards. They also discuss the implications of AI on security, as recently discussed during the Microsoft Security special event with Tech Field Day.
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AI Acceleration, Chip Competition & Market Overheating
AI-Ready Storage Explained: Hammerspace’s Unified Data Solution
Hammerspace offers a unified data solution for AI workloads, aggregating storage infrastructure into a single namespace for high-speed data access and improved GPU utilization. They are also leading the Open Flash Platform initiative for efficient exabyte-scale data storage. Read more coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day on Techstrong AI!
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AI-Ready Storage Explained: Hammerspace's Unified Data Solution
The Principle of the Hidden Key
1Password’s approach to agentic AI security emphasizes deterministic authorization, ensuring every action is traceable and secure. Their Security Principles for AI prioritize keeping secrets secret, ensuring auditability, and minimizing exposure. This is implemented through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows AI to interact with systems without accessing credentials, and partnerships like Browserbase for secure autofill. Read more coverage of Security Field Day by Vriti Magee on her blog!
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The Principle of the Hidden Key
When Networks Learn to Flow
Nile’s Zero Trust architecture simplifies enterprise security by integrating it directly into the network, eliminating the need for complex overlays. Their approach, based on the “Power of Zero,” emphasizes Zero Trust, Zero Touch, and Zero CapEx, ensuring every device is secure by default and operations are autonomous. By focusing on identity-based security and removing unnecessary human dependency, Nile aims to make network security as seamless as possible. Read more Security Field Day coverage on Vriti Magee’s blog!
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Inside the Tab
Vriti Magee follows SquareX’s Security Field Day presentation on Browser Detection and Response. They focused on understanding browser-based attacks by observing user interactions within the browser. Their architecture, consisting of a browser extension and a web policy platform, enables real-time threat prevention by enforcing policies at the browser runtime. This shift from control to understanding emphasizes the importance of context-based visibility in cybersecurity.
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How CTERA Plans to Fix What’s Breaking Enterprise AI
CTERA is tackling the complexities that hinder enterprise AI by enhancing data management and storage solutions, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure. By focusing on fixing bottlenecks related to data accessibility and management, CTERA aims to streamline operations and support advanced AI deployments. For more coverage of CTERA’s initiatives, follow updates by Jack Poller and others on Techstrong AI.
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How CTERA Plans to Fix What's Breaking Enterprise AI
AI Safety Rules and the Future of Data Centers
In this episode of Techstrong Gang, the panel explores the emerging dialogue around AI safety rules and their anticipated impact on future data center operations, addressing growing concerns over AI reliability and security. They also examine the potential influence these regulations could have on architectural and strategic shifts within data center ecosystems. The episode includes coverage of the recent AI Infrastructure Field Day event in a long segment.
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AI Safety Rules and the Future of Data Centers
The AI Infrastructure Paradox: When Buying GPUs Is Just the Beginning
Rafay is an AI cloud enabler that automates the AI stack, simplifying infrastructure orchestration and reducing costs for large enterprises. It offers multi-tenancy, standardization, and application-centric delivery, empowering organizations to operationalize AI without extensive internal development. Watch for more coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day on LinkedIn!
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The AI Infrastructure Paradox: When Buying GPUs Is Just the Beginning
Transforming GPU-as-a-Service into AI Cloud with Rafay
The conversation around AI infrastructure often focuses on hardware, but the real opportunity lies in bridging the gap between renting raw GPU power and delivering a true, self-service AI cloud experience. A true AI cloud must offer self-service consumption, robust multi-tenancy, and an application-centric approach to simplify infrastructure complexity. Rafay’s platform helps GPU providers and enterprises build and operate AI clouds, offering automation, governance, and cost-effective solutions tailored for AI infrastructure. Watch for more coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day on Techstrong AI!
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Transforming GPU-as-a-Service into AI Cloud with Rafay
My First Cartel Meeting (and What It Taught Me About DNS)
Vriti Magee shares a fascinating narrative of an unconventional encounter that illuminated the complexities of DNS, showing its pivotal role in online security and network operations. Through this personal experience, Vriti highlights the significance of understanding DNS not just as a technical component, but as a crucial part of broader cybersecurity strategies. For more insights following Security Field Day, subscribe to Vriti’s blog!
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My First Cartel Meeting (and What It Taught Me About DNS)
How Broadcom’s Three-Chip Strategy Tackles AI’s Biggest Networking Bottleneck
Broadcom’s innovative three-chip strategy addresses significant networking bottlenecks in artificial intelligence (AI) by optimizing data movement efficiency across different network layers. Utilizing a combination of its Tomahawk, Jericho, and Ramon chips, the strategy enhances compute and storage connectivity, ensuring faster and more reliable data handling essential for AI applications. Find more coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day by Jack Poller, watch Techstrong AI!
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How Broadcom's Three-Chip Strategy Tackles AI's Biggest Networking Bottleneck
Celona’s Private Cellular Vision: Redefining Enterprise Connectivity at Scale
Celona’s presentation at Mobility Field Day 13 outlined their innovative approach to private cellular networks, emphasizing how they can redefine enterprise connectivity with improved scalability and control. They demonstrated their capabilities in deploying enterprise-specific 5G networks that promise to support critical applications with reliability, simplified operations, and enhanced performance. For more coverage of Mobility Field Day 13, please visit Techstrong IT.
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Celona’s Private Cellular Vision: Redefining Enterprise Connectivity at Scale
How Arista is Unifying Campus Networks with Wi-Fi 7, AIOps and Zero-Trust
Arista is advancing its campus network solutions by integrating Wi-Fi 7 technology, enhancing their AIOps capabilities, and incorporating zero-trust security strategies. These innovations aim to streamline network management and improve security protocols, aligning with modern enterprise needs for robust and efficient networking. For further insights on Mobility Field Day 13 coverage, visit Techstrong IT.
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How Arista is Unifying Campus Networks with Wi-Fi 7, AIOps and Zero-Trust
From GPU Gold Rush to Revenue Reality: How Mirantis k0rdent Transforms AI Infrastructure Dreams into Dollars
In the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence, Mirantis is making waves with its k0rdent platform, revolutionizing how businesses capitalize on GPU-intensive workloads. This transformative tool not only optimizes AI infrastructure but also significantly enhances the operational efficiency and revenue streams of enterprises engaged in AI and machine learning endeavors. Additional insights and coverage on this topic have been provided by Jack Poller on Techstrong AI.
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68 Days Ahead: Turning DNS Data into Compliance and Cyber Resilience
Marian Newsome explores how utilizing DNS data can enhance compliance and cyber resilience, providing organizations with a strategic advantage in preempting security threats. Through efficient data analysis, businesses are not only able to meet regulatory requirements but also fortify their defenses against potential cyberattacks. Discover more insights on this topic by Marian Newsome on LinkedIn Pulse.
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68 Days Ahead: Turning DNS Data into Compliance and Cyber Resilience
What If Your Storage Knew How to Talk Back?
Vriti Magee recently posted on LinkedIn following MinIO’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 23. PromptObject allows developers to interact with unstructured data using natural language prompts, retrieving structured JSON responses. This integration with LLM APIs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes AI agent interactions with storage, enabling functions like listing buckets and generating dashboards.
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What If Your Storage Knew How to Talk Back?
Behind the Exabytes: A Field Note from Inside the Cloud
In this article, Vriti Magee takes a look at Sality’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 23. Scality’s RING platform, a practical storage architecture for data-intensive organizations, supports exabyte-scale growth and internal cloud services. Its disaggregated architecture allows independent scaling of compute, storage, and metadata, managing 12 exabytes of data with low latency and high reliability. Scality’s architecture supports native erasure coding, geo-distributed availability zones, and asynchronous replication, making it a backbone for regulated enterprises building internal clouds.
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Behind the Exabytes: A Field Note from Inside the Cloud
Glean Insights & Value from Unstructured Data With Qlik Answers
In a recent article by Jim Czuprynski, he explores the capabilities of Qlik Answers, a tool designed to help organizations extract meaningful insights from unstructured data. The article highlights how Qlik Answers uses advanced analytics and AI to simplify data processing, ensuring businesses can make informed decisions quickly. For more coverage of similar topics, check out Jim’s blog!
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Glean Insights & Value from Unstructured Data With Qlik Answers
Hammerspace and the Open Flash Platform at #AIIFD3
In this article, Ray Lucchesi discussed Hammerspace’s collaboration with the Open Flash Platform, highlighting its role at the AIIFD3 event. The focus was on how this partnership might leverage AI to enhance data management and storage solutions. For more in-depth coverage of AI Infrastructure Field Day, visit Ray Lucchesi’s blog on Silverton Consulting.
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Hammerspace and the Open Flash Platform at #AIIFD3
How Mainframe Observability Bridges Legacy and Modern Systems
This article discusses the vital role of mainframe observability in integrating legacy systems with modern technological infrastructures, focusing on its importance in maintaining robust system health and efficiency. It covers the challenges organizations face when connecting old and new computing environments and how observability tools help overcome these obstacles. Learn more about Broadcom’s WatchTower tools and insights from SHARE at Techstrong IT.
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How Mainframe Observability Bridges Legacy and Modern Systems