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.

Tune in Next Week for Cloud Field Day!

Adam Fisher will be joining us, as a delegate, in San Jose, California for the upcoming Cloud Field Day! Take a look at who will be presenting and how you can become a delegate for Tech Field Day!

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Tune in next week for Cloud Field Day!

Configuring Veeam Backup for Microsoft365 With Encrypted Object Storage

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6, which was recently showcased at Cloud Field Day 12, has been leveraging object as a way to make it’s storage consumption more manageable since version 4. Jim Jones, a Field Day delegate, discusses how this object also provides a couple more advantages in relation to VBM. Check out Jim’s thought here on Veeam’s presentation!

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Configuring Veeam Backup for Microsoft365 with Encrypted Object Storage

Network Automation From End to End With Itential

Itential presented on their Automation Platform at this past Networking Field Day! Writing for Gestalt It, Sulagna Saha discusses how this platform addresses the issues head-on with added advantage of being both network and cloud enabled. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts here!

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Network Automation from End to End with Itential

The Cisco Catalyst 9136 Access Point

Cisco presented their first Access Point with Wi-Fi 6E capability at 2020’s Mobility Field Day! Dave Benham, a Field Day delegate, was allowed to test this Cisco Catalyst 9136 AP through the Cisco Champion program. Check out why Dave is super excited to be able to test this new AP!

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The Cisco Catalyst 9136 Access Point

Infrascale Recovery for SMBs

Infrascale continues to focus on SMBs with its portfolio of data protection products, and Justin Warren, a Field Day delegate, continues to be impressed by what they have to offer. At last year’s Storage Field Day, Infrascale mainly focused on Disaster Recovery. Justin was very intrigued by what they had to offer, look at his thoughts here!

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Infrascale Recovery For SMBs

Viewing and Analyzing Multi-Vendor Network in Minutes With IP Fabric Automated Network Assurance Platform

IP Fabric presented at this past Networking Field Day! Sulagna Saha, from Gestalt It, discusses their Automated Network Assurance Platform that collects valuable data from across various points in the network and serves it up to the engineers to work with. This can make analysis and maintenance of such vast and complex network infrastructures a lot simpler. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts here!

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Viewing and Analyzing Multi-Vendor Network in Minutes with IP Fabric Automated Network Assurance Platform

Network Field Day 27 – ZPE Systems

ZPE Systems presented on their Gen 3 Out-of-Band and Zero pain Ecosystem at this past Networking Field Day. Take a look at their demo’s and presentation here!

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Network Field Day 27 - ZPE Systems

CTERA Global File Sharing With Modern Security

CTERA is storage software for a global filesystem accessible from anywhere in your organization. Justin Warren, a Field Day delegate, discusses this multi-cloud but also private storage software that CTERA presented at Storage Field Day last year. Take a look at Justin’s thoughts here!

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CTERA Global File Sharing With Modern Security

Meine Woche Im Silicon Valley

Kerstin Stief traveled all the way from Germany to Santa Clara, California and attended last month’s Networking Field Day as a delegate. In her free time throughout the week, Kerstin visited many places within the South Bay area. She goes into detail of her overall experience in California and cannot wait to be back for another Field Day. Check out this intriguing post!

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Meine Woche im Silicon Valley

Integrating Network Operations Tooling

Daren Fulwell presented on behalf of IP Fabric at the past Networking Field Day. He found out that IP Fabric isn’t the only company with an ecosystem vision. Daren discusses that integrating the tools together from competing companies rather than individually, you will get the full benefit of their capabilities and the data they can share. Check out Daren’s LinkedIn post here!

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Integrating Network Operations Tooling

Nfd27 – Zpe

ZPE Systems was the first company to start us off at Networking Field Day! Tyler Christiansen, a Field Day delegate, discusses their Gen-3 Out-of-Band Management Systems and the Zero Pain Ecosystem. Take a look at Tyler’s thoughts here!

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NFD27 - ZPE

NFD27 – Forward Networks

Tyler Christiansen, a Field Day delegate, dives into the new technology that Forward Networks brought to the table at this past Networking Field Day! Tyler did not know much about Forward Networks before seeing them present, he now wishes he had looked into them before. Check out his thoughts here!

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NFD27 - Forward Networks

NFD27 – Network to Code

Network to Code presented at the latest Networking Field Day! Tyler Christiansen, a Field Day delegate, describes their latest Nautobot. Check out his thoughts here!

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NFD27 - Network to Code

Networking Field Day

Itential’s Karan Munalingal, Peter Sprygada, and Rich Martin presented at Networking Field Day last January. Check out their presentations here!

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Networking Field Day

Celebrating MinIO

Minio presented at Storage Field Day back in 2020 and Chin-Fah Heoh, a Field Day delegate, is still going “Gaga” over them! Let’s celebrate the min in Minio with Chin-Fah! Check out his thoughts here.

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Celebrating MinIO

The Network Does Too Much

While at this past Networking Field Day, Tom Hollingsworth got to chat with a few folks who helped him think about things in new ways and come up with new ideas for his blog! Check out Tom’s blog, The Networking Nerd, for more!

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The Network Does Too Much

Tape Lives! At Fujifilm

Have you heard about FujiFilm’s new product, FujiFilm Object Archive? They presented this product at the latest Storage Field Day! Justin Warren, a Field Day delegate, explains that this is basically AWS Glacier but for inside your datacenter. Check out Justin’s thoughts on this S3 compatible API for accessing data that will integrate with anything else that speaks S3!

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Tape Lives! At Fujifilm

Disclosure: #XFD6 Edition

Justin Warren leaves us with his Security Field Day discloser post and includes the sponsor swag he received from last October. Check out what he received from all the presenting companies that participated with swag!

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Disclosure: #XFD6 Edition

Tech Upfront, Jan 28

Check out Enrico Signoretti’s, a Field Day delegate, newest Tech Upfront Chat! Enrico attended November’s Cloud Field Day and is discussing new cloud computing and latest IT trends. He is joined in this discussion with multiple Field Day delegates, check it out!

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Tech Upfront, Jan 28

Why Haven’t I Tried ZeroTier Before?

This past January, ZeroTier presented for the very first time at Networking Field Day in the Silicon Valley. John Herbert, a field day delegate, was very intrigued by ZeroTier’s creation of an arbitrary virtual ethernet switch through which devices can communicate. Check out why John will now be using ZeroTier’s solution.

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Why Haven't I Tried ZeroTier Before?