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.
vRNI ( VMware vRealize Network Insight )
This piece from the Portuguese Rodrigo Rovere covers VMware’s Networking Field Day appearance and his experience of it first hand as a Field Day delegate. The company’s presentation mainly covered their vRNI (vRealize Network Insights) product and how it can be used to increase network visibility, and this piece addresses those uses and Rovere’s take on them thereafter. Visit Rovere’s site, ciscoredes.com, for all of his opinions on the matter, and be sure to watch VMware’s presentation for full context.
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vRNI ( VMware vRealize Network Insight )
Morpheus Data: Making the Spice Flow With Agnostic Infrastructure Management
Max Mortillaro describes his experiences as a delegate during June’s Cloud Field Day in this post from TECHunplugged.com. Specifically, he hones in on the presentation by Morpheus Data, on of his self-proclaimed highlights of the event. Read on to learn why Mortillaro was so impressed with Morpheus, and watch their Cloud Field Day presentations for a technical deep dive into their product.
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Morpheus Data: Making The Spice Flow With Agnostic Infrastructure Management
BrainChip Akida Puts AI at the Edge
This piece covers the appearance of BrainChip at May’s AI Field Day event. There, they presented their Akida neuromorphic chip, which enables IT practitioners to leverage AI at the edge. Learn more by reading on or watching BrainChip demo the product in their video presentation.
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BrainChip Akida Puts AI at the Edge
Tackling Big Data With Intel’s Open-Sourced Analytics Zoo
When they appeared at May’s AI Field Day event, Intel presented their Analytics Zoo product for tackling problems of big data analytics in AI. This piece covers the presentation, including the customer use cases shared at the event. Read on for a full breakdown, and watch all of Intel’s AI Field Day presentations for more product demos.
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Tackling Big Data with Intel's Open-Sourced Analytics Zoo
Meet Field Day Delegate – Rocky Gregory
We are excited to welcome Rocky Gregory as a delegate at the upcoming Mobility Field Day event in July! Rocky heads up Wireless for Nike and loves enterprise wireless deployments and the wireless security of implanted medical devices (including his own!). Without any further ado, let’s learn a little more about Rocky!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Rocky Gregory
Meet Field Day Delegate – Landon Foster
We are excited to welcome Landon Foster as a first-time delegate at the upcoming Mobility Field Day event in July! He’s a former Marine, and when he’s not working on WiFi and RF, you’ll find Foster raising money with his two boys at the Tap Cancer Out BJJ Open, a Brazilian Ju-Jitsu charity tournament. Without any further ado, let’s learn a little more about Foster!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Landon Foster
Meet Field Day Delegate – Firas Shaari
We are excited to welcome Firas Shaari as a delegate at the upcoming Mobility Field Day event in July! Firas is a senior WiFi engineer for Comcast who loves spending time with his family when he can and listening to live metal music. Without any further ado, let’s learn a little more about Firas!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Firas Shaari
Liqid Makes AI Composable
This piece covers the AI Field Day presentation of Liqid, who showcased their composable AI server building blocks and Matrix platform. Liqid likens their Matrix platform to a virtualized hypervisor for on-premises servers, which makes it very effective for supporting ML models. Read on for more info, and watch all of Liqid’s presentations to learn more.
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Morpheus at Cloud Field Day 11
This piece by Wences Michel details his experience as a delegate during June’s Cloud Field Day presentations, specifically those by Morpheus Data. Michel highlights Morpheus’ integrations and how they help IT admins by automating and orchestrating processes that are usually tedious. Read on for the full breakdown, and watch Morpheus present at their Cloud Field Day appearance for more.
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Morpheus at Cloud Field Day 11
The Pliops Storage Processor: Niche Product, or Game-Changing Technology?
This piece comes from Max Mortillaro, who writes about his time as a Cloud Field Day delegate in June. Mortillaro shares his takes on the presentations by Pliops, who presented their storage processor. Read on for all of his takeaways, and be sure to check out the presentations by Pliops for even more technical detail.
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The Pliops Storage Processor: Niche Product, or Game-Changing Technology?
CFD 11 – Day 3 – No One Cares About Backups
In his coverage of the final day of June’s Cloud Field Day event, Adam Post discusses a common denominator task of nearly every IT admin: backups. The piece then goes on to speak about the presentation by Kasten, whose product provides backups to Kubernetes deployment. You’ll find the entire post at semitechnical.com.
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CFD 11 – Day 3 – No one cares about backups
CFD 11 – Day 2 – It’s All About the Ingress
This piece by Adam Post covers his time as a delegate during June’s Cloud Field Day event. Specifically, he hones in on NGINX and their cloud-based ingress controller. Read on for Post’s “Semi Technical” breakdown of the product, and watch NGINX’s Cloud Field Day presentations for more info.
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CFD 11 – Day 2 – It’s all about the ingress
Mobility Field Day 6: 1st Enterprise Wi-Fi 6E Access Point Deep Dive
Aruba is joining us for Mobility Field Day this week! In their presentation, they will be covering the latest Wi-Fi 6E technologies, including the Aruba 630 series—the industry’s first enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 6E solution. Be sure to tune in Wednesday, July 14th, at 8:00 AM US/Pacific time to watch their presentation live!
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Mobility Field Day 6: 1st Enterprise Wi-Fi 6E Access Point Deep Dive
Meet Field Day Delegate – Mike Wade
We’re excited to welcome Mike Wade as a first-time delegate at this week’s Mobility Field Day event! Mike owns the wireless consultancy company Kahuna-Fi, which he started after 20+ years working as a WiFi consultant after leaving the U.S. Navy. Be sure to follow Mike on Twitter at @WirelessKahuna for all his thoughts from the event!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Mike Wade
Experience at the Edge With Mobility Field Day!
It’s time to learn more during the 2021 edition of Mobility Field Day! We’re looking forward to getting updates from our lineup of great presenters and hearing the perspectives of our amazing delegates. July 14-16 is going to be packed with all the great information you need to plan your next wireless installation. Tune in this week to watch the event live!
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Experience at the Edge with Mobility Field Day!
Nokia Introduces SR-Linux as Its Modular, Open, and Extensible Network Operating System
This coverage post addresses Nokia’s appearance at May’s Networking Field Day event. Specifically, it hones in on their announced release of SR-Linux networking operating system, and how it affects the enterprise networking industry as a whole. Read on for more, and be sure to check out Nokia’s presentations for even more detailed information.
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Nokia Introduces SR-Linux as its Modular, Open, and Extensible Network Operating System
Improving Data Availability for AI Models With Scality’s ARTESCA
Scality, who recently announced their ARTESCA product, had the opportunity to present the product in more detail at the AI Field Day event in May. During that presentation, which is covered in this post, Scality detailed how ARTESCA brings robust data storage capabilities to AI/ML models, making small file operations like image recognition or even genome sequencing for viruses a snap. Learn more about the AI use cases of ARTESCA by reading the post, and see the product in image manipulation action by watching the presentation.
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Improving Data Availability for AI Models with Scality's ARTESCA
Automating Network Troubleshooting With PathSolutions’ TotalView
Troubleshooting network issues can take tons of time out of an IT professional’s day. That’s why PathSolutions — who appeared at May’s Networking Field Day event — built their TotalView product with a native heuristics engine to automate the collection and interpretation of network data points, saving networking engineers time and headache. Read this piece that covers their Networking Field Day presentation to learn more, and watch the presentation itself for even more technical information regarding TotalView by PathSolutions.
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Automating Network Troubleshooting with PathSolutions' TotalView
How Kemp Maximizes Network Flow Visibility With Flowmon
Without the right information, a security event can be more like an unsolvable mystery rather than a puzzle that can be simply answered. In their presentation during March’s Security Field Day, Kemp showed how their Flowmon product collects information across nearly all facets of network traffic and then intelligently presents it in a way that helps IT admins and security engineers to parse through it with ease. See the Flowmon product in action by watching Kemp’s presentation and read the entirety of the post for key takeaways.
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How Kemp Maximizes Network Flow Visibility with Flowmon
How VMware’s SASE Secures Work From Anywhere
This post notes upon the difficulty of securing employees that work from anywhere compared to traditional networking models and how VMware’s SASE product can help address the issue. The product, which VMware presented at March’s Security Field Day event, works by smartly routing traffic between cloud and on-premises resources as if it were all happening within the traditional data center. Read on for more information about how VMware describes the product, or watch their presentation to hear it in their own words.
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