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.

Arista Lines Up Merchant Silicon-Based Routing Products for Service Provider Networks

There is a big debate among industry insiders about who comes on top between merchant and custom silicon. Writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses the presentation from Arista at this past Networking Field Day: Service Provider and how their merchant silicon-based routing products settle the debate in favor of merchant silicon. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on this inexpensive pricing for service network providers!

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Arista Lines Up Merchant Silicon-Based Routing Products for Service Provider Networks

Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning With Cisco’s New Implementation on IOS XR

Security is critical to any network, especially when it involves Zero-Touch Provisioning. Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses why secure device onboarding is a must to maintain a fully secure network. Luckily, Cisco brought an implementation on its IOS XR to the very first Networking Field Day: Service Provider this past December! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on how this function will bolster security in ZTP workflows!

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Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning with Cisco’s New Implementation on IOS XR

A Step Towards Ethical Facial Recognition With Oosto

With ethicality always being in question with facial recognition, it’s interesting to see that Oosto, formerly known as Anyvison, is working alongside Intel to mitigate the concerns of the users through ethical policies and bending to legal restrictions while bringing people solutions that are both intelligent and effective. Writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses Oosta’s demonstration on their new technology at this past Security Field Day! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on their clever facial recognition solutions here!

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A Step towards Ethical Facial Recognition with Oosto

Juniper Networks Is Simplifying Container Migration With Contrail

Juniper Networks presented a new approach to centralizing, automating, and ensuring security, load-balancing and migratability of architectures across cloud providers as well as within the corporate datacenter at this past Cloud Field Day! Writing for Gestalt IT, Matt Leib addresses the challenges presented by migrating containers, and the progress Juniper Networks has made in that direction through the release of Contrail software. Check out Matt’s thought here!

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Juniper Networks is Simplifying Container Migration with Contrail

Tying Cloud Provider Orchestration, Security, Performance, and Cost Management Together With Prosimo AXI at Cloud Field Day 12

Robert Novak, a field day delegate, attended the very first hybrid Cloud Field Day in San Jose, California this past November! He was impressed with Prosimo and their solution with the AXI Platform. Rob discusses the introduction to the problems Prosimo is working on solving, and some of the problems they’re not focused on. Check out Rob’s thoughts here!

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Tying cloud provider orchestration, security, performance, and cost management together with Prosimo AXI at Cloud Field Day 12

Threat Hunting for Exploits With Cisco

In the realm of enterprise security, it’s important to think about what threats are out there. Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth explains the framework that Cisco has put in place during their presentation at the latest Security Field Day. He discusses why you should dedicate a part of your bandwidth to this kind of threat so that it can reap benefits beyond your wildest dreams! Check out Tom’s thoughts about Cisco’s presentation here!

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Threat Hunting for Exploits with Cisco

Security Effectiveness Reaches New Heights With Juniper Security Director Cloud

At the latest Security Field Day, Juniper Networks presented on a solution to secure access with promises to make enforcement of ironclad security at the user end simple, easy, and effective. Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses the uncomplicated interface of the new Juniper Security Director Cloud. Check out her thoughts on this impressively efficienct high security platform.

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Security Effectiveness Reaches New Heights with Juniper Security Director Cloud

A Service Provider Network Is Not Your Enterprise Network

Join Gestalt IT’s, Tom Hollingsworth as he brings on Nick Buraglio, Chris Cummings, and Vince Schuele, a panel of service provider networking experts, for the latest On-Premise IT RoundTable. They will be dissecting the differences between the traditional enterprise network and a service provider or transit network. Find out the ultimate goals of your infrastructure and who the customer is for a service provider network.

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A Service Provider Network is Not Your Enterprise Network

Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!

We’re right at the end of 2021, but we couldn’t let it go without a special new event! The first ever Networking Field Day: Service Provider has finally arrived. This event has been requested by the community and the presenters for a few years and we wanted to make sure to do it right. Check out the presentations from DriveNets, Cisco and Arista here!

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Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!

Swimlane Security Operations Automation

Justin Warren attended this past Security Field Day as a delegate where Swimlane presented on a cloud-scale, low-code security automation tool. This tool is a combination dashboard that is aimed at security teams doing the daily work of responding to security threats. Check out Justin’s thoughts on Swimlane’s presentation as well as some ideas he has to further automate testing!

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Swimlane Security Operations Automation

GaiaX, the Cost of Data Breach, Lieferengpässe

In early November, MemVerge unveiled their Big Memory Cloud at Cloud Field Day! Kerstin Stief, a field day delegate, explains the heart of the system, the Memory Machine Cloud Edition, which can create an in-memory snapshot of a single application. Check out Kerstin’s thoughts on MemVerge here!

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GaiaX, the Cost of Data Breach, Lieferengpässe

Securing 5G and IoT With Betacom

Did you hear the big announcement from AWS re:Invent 2021? I’m sure you are all as excited as Tom Hollingsworth is for Amazon Private 5G services. Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom discusses how Betacom, a presenting company at this past Security Field Day, can help support and solve the newly enabled 5G systems from Amazon in the near future. Check out Tom’s thoughts here!

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Securing 5G and IoT with Betacom

Solving the Multi-Cloud Puzzle With Prosimo

Looking for a solution to the challenges of multi-cloud with a modern approach and the balance you need? Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth discusses Prosimo’s new AXI platform that was previously presented at November’s Cloud Field Day. AXI provides the transit that you need for your application to be multi-cloud enabled. Check out more from Tom and Prosimo here!

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Solving the Multi-cloud Puzzle with Prosimo

5G Security With Betacom

Wanting to learn more on industrial implementations of 5G and how security works with them? Justin Warren attended October’s Security Field Day, as a delegate, and discusses Betacom’s presentation on those two topics. Take a look at his thoughts here!

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5G Security With Betacom

Are You Swimming in a Secure Lane?

When swimming upstream against the rushing current of security alerts, requirements, and responsibilities, accessing APIs may be the only way to avoid being eaten alive. Bruno Wollmann, a Field Day delegate, discusses the demonstrations from Swimlane from this past Security Field Day and how the beautiful GUI is available through API. Take a look here for more on Bruno’s thoughts.

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Are You Swimming In A Secure Lane?

D://xprs0017: Processors in Italy, a British Comeback and the Email Celebrates Its Birthday

Kerstin Steif and Wolfgang Steif, Field Day delegates, lay out some interesting information that was leaked by AMD about the next generation EPYC processors. They discuss facts leaked about Intel, Versa Networks, Juniper Networks, and Apstra and what Field Day events a few of these companies presented at. Check out what Kerstin and Wolfgang are up to!

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d://xprs0017: Processors in Italy, a British comeback and the email celebrates its birthday

MemVerge Big Memory Cloud

Nico Stein attended November’s Cloud Field Day as a delegate in San Jose, California for the first hybrid Field Day event since the pandemic began. He took special interest into the Memory Machine Cloud Edition that MemVerge presented! Nico first learned about MemVerge and their Memory Machine at a past Tech Field Day event and was excited to see what more they had for him. Check out his thoughts here!

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MemVerge Big Memory Cloud

MemVerge Launches Big Memory Cloud

MemVerge has some very big ideas around taking the “software defined” concept to memory, allowing advanced optimizations and flexibility of instance memory usage. Jim Jones attended November’s Cloud Field Day as a delegate and took special interest into what MemVerge had to offer with their Big Memory Cloud announcement. Check out why Jim is looking forward to see what this can bring to providers in the future!

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MemVerge Launches Big Memory Cloud

D://xprs0016: IT-SA, XFD6 Und Ein T.I.D.

Kerstin Stief attended Security Field Day in October as a Field Day delegate! She discusses SASE, ZTA and complex IoT devices that Cisco, Intel, Juniper Networks and Versa Networks presented. Check out Kerstin’s thoughts and other events she has attending this past year!

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d://xprs0016: IT-SA, XFD6 und ein T.I.D.

Prosimo at Cloud Field Day 12

Looking to effectively tie together the networking for your cloud presence and your on-prem datacenters and branch offices? Ned Bellavance, a Field Day delegate, discusses the solution that can leverage the native constructs in each cloud and their massive backbone to provide high-performance, low-latency connectivity from an orchestrated SaaS solution that was presented by Prosimo at Cloud Field Day! Check out Ned’s podcast here or on Spotify for more information.

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Prosimo at Cloud Field Day 12