What Is Your Edge?
Alastair Cooke and Charles Uneze got to talking about Edge Compute in lieu of our upcoming Edge Field Day! In Alastair’s post, he covers his thought on near-edge, far-edge, IoT, and Edge Population. Be sure to check out his thoughts before tuning into February’s Edge Field Day!
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2022 Year in Review
Field Day delegate Ned Bellavance was up to a lot this past 2022! From Cloud Field Day to the HashiCorp Academy, Ned kept himself busy! Check out the other events and conferences he attended and see what he will be up to this 2023!
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VVols, Oh VVols, Wherefore Art Thou VVols?
The Pure Storage presentation at VMware Explore 2022 inspired Alastair Cooke to start thinking more about VVOLS. During this presentation, Alastair was wondering “is this event still a thing”, and soon realized that many storage vendors are actively using VVOLS and vSphere 7! He goes into details on VVOLS and VMFS, check out his thoughts here and how it will help your storage design.
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VVols, Oh VVols, wherefore art thou VVols?
Networking Into the Future With Networking Field Day 30
We kicked off 2023 with Networking Field Day where we had presentations from Anuta Networks, Juniper Networks, Aryaka, Cisco, Arista, Fortinet, and Selector AI! All videos from Networking Field Day have been published on the Tech Field Day website, head on over to check them out!
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Networking Into The Future with Networking Field Day 30
The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast: Tom Hollingsworth
Our very own Tom Hollingsworth joined Field Day delegates Chris Grundemann and Zoe Rose on their new Imposter Syndrome Podcast. They discussed Tom’s role as an Event Lead for Tech Field Day and what his day-to-day operations looks like for tech events. Check out what he has to say!
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The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast: Tom Hollingsworth
2023 New Year, New Opportunities
Girard Kavelines was a delegate at both Tech Field Day and Security Field Day last year and attended January 2023’s Networking Field Day! In this post, he talks through some highlights of last year and shares a few plans for the upcoming year. Check out what he has to say!
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2023 New Year, New Opportunities
2022: The End of the Beginning
Chris Grundemann recapped on his accomplishments of 2022. Not only did he attend March’s Security Field Day, he attended a whirlwind of different events and even launched a new Podcast with Field Day delegate, Zoe Rose, on The Imposter Syndrome Network! Check out his recap here and see what he has coming up this year!
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2022: The End of the Beginning
Network Monitoring in Real Time With Arista CloudVision
Sulagna Saha writes about Arista CloudVision, a multi-domain management platform that simplifies management and monitoring of network assets with real-time telemetry and turnkey automation. Read her article on the Gestalt IT website or watch the live presentation on the Tech Field Day website.
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Network Monitoring in Real Time with Arista CloudVision
Integrated Networking and Cloud-Delivered Security With Fortinet
Sulagna Saha talks about FortiSASE, an integrated networking and security solution that delivers the best of cloud-based security and SD-WAN connectivity to customers. Read her thoughts on Gestalt IT, or head over to the Tech Field Day website for a deep-dive presentation on this.
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Integrated Networking and Cloud-Delivered Security with Fortinet
ML-Driven Monitoring With Selector AI
Sulagna Saha talks about Selector AI, an AI platform that performs full-stack network monitoring through automation. Selector AI provides operational intelligence and self-serve analytics making decision-making swift and easy for operators. Read her thoughts on the Gestalt IT website or check out the Tech Field Day website to watch Selector’s deep-dive presentations from the recent Networking Field Day event.
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ML-Driven Monitoring with Selector AI
Aryaka – An All-In-One Solution for Networking and Security
Sulagna Saha talks about Aryaka’s all-in-one networking and security solution that combines SD-WAN, SASE and managed services, all into one integrated service. Read her review on the Gestalt IT website. To watch Aryaka’s live presentation of the Unified SASE solution at the recent Networking Field Day event, check out the Tech Field Day website.
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Aryaka - An All-in-One Solution for Networking and Security
Micron Authenta: A Safety Seal for the Digital Age
Brian Knudtson reviewed Micron’s Authenta, which provides automatic, silicon-level integrity for a zero trust architecture. This article on Gestalt IT, sponsored by Micron, provides a review of Authenta following their presentation at Security Field Day in November 2022. Learn more about Micron Authenta by reading Brian’s article and watch their presentation videos on the Tech Field Day website!
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Micron Authenta: A Safety Seal for the Digital Age
Introducing Graphiant: The Future of Network-As-A-Service
In his recent post, Tony Mattke gives us an in-depth overview of Graphiant’s presentation at September’s Networking Field Day. He writes that Graphiant has a unique approach to networking; by advancing technologies like SDN and NFV they can provide a flexible and secure network experience. Tony believes that Graphiant is a significant player in the NaaS world, check out more thoughts from him here!
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Introducing Graphiant: The Future of Network-as-a-Service
Network Monitoring Made Easy With Progress WhatsUp Gold
Sulagna Saha talks about Progress WhatsUp Gold, an all-in-one network monitoring solution that discovers and maps networks instantly, and watches every asset with eagle eyes. Packed with a full spectrum of advanced monitoring solutions, WhatsUp Gold is a software designed for network operators to find and fix problems fast in a dynamic network. Read her article or check out Progress’ deep-dive presentations on WhatsUp Gold at the Tech Field Day website.
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Network Monitoring Made Easy with Progress WhatsUp Gold
FortiReady- Securing the Future One Solution at a Time
Girard Kavelines tuned in live for the Fortinet presentation at this past Security Field Day, now he is sharing his thoughts on his personal blog. He goes into detail on both the FortiRecon and FortiDeceptor technologies that are changing the game in the way we detect, respond, and remediate multiple threats! If you want to learn more from Girard about Fortinet’s newest platforms, check out his article here!
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FortiReady- Securing The Future One Solution At A Time
Hardware Still Has to Matter
Ned Bellavance took a special interest in Alastair’s Cooke point of view at the most recent Intel Tech Field Day Showcase where he focused on the relevance to hardware today. People tend to think of cloud as an abstracting hardware, but Ned believes quite the opposite. He says that we should embrace the public cloud so the more and varied hardware will now be closer to the consumer to help them transform their application. For more from Ned about the Intel Showcase, visit the Gestalt IT website.
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The Perfect Configuration Gives You the Edge
Melissa Palmer writes on the Gestalt IT site about the latest Intel Tech Field Day Showcase! She goes into detail on a route to the perfect configuration that is set on building the optimized sum of gains extracted out of all the components that make it. Intel brings their performance and several other critical features to this architecture! Check out more from Melissa on the Gestalt IT website!
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The Perfect Configuration Gives You the Edge
Preventing a Secret Sprawl With HashiCorp’s Vault
Sulagna Saha reviews HashiCorp’s Vault, a secrets management solution designed with a zero-trust architecture. Vault secures sensitive credentials aka secrets in the environment, making sure all accesses are secure and authorized. Read her review on the Gestalt IT website, or check out in-depth presentations on Vault by HashiCorp on the Tech Field Day website.
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Preventing a Secret Sprawl with HashiCorp's Vault
The Road to SecOps Automation With Swimlane
Sulagna Saha discusses Swimlane’s Security Automation Maturity Model. This newly launched framework helps organizations measure the maturity level of their security operations and pave the path to security automation with a detailed five-stage program. Check out the article to read her review of the model. To watch the presentation recorded live at the latest Security Field Day event, be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website.
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The Road to SecOps Automation with Swimlane
Querying Observability Data at Edge With Cribl Search
Sulagna Saha discusses the newly launched Cribl Search – a search function available to users on Cribl Cloud. Cribl Search reimagines the conventional search process by allowing administrators to search observability data at the edge. To read her thoughts, check out the article on the Gestalt IT website. For a complete demo of Cribl Search, be sure to watch the Cribl presentations from the recent Security Field Day on the Tech Field Day website.
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