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.
Xilinx and the Adaptive, Composable Datacentre
Justin Warren had the opportunity to join us as a delegate at April’s Tech Field Day and see Xilinx’s presentation. In this post by Justin, he notes that “Xilinx makes programmable hardware, most famously Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), that combine the speed of hardware with the flexibility of software.” He also mentions that Xilinx views FPGAs as now being at a similar level to other kinds of compute, such as CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. For more of Justin’s thoughts, be sure to check out this post on eigenmagic.com!
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Xilinx And The Adaptive, Composable Datacentre
Podcast: Netzmanagement on Steroids Und Andere Einsichten
As a delegate at Networking Field Day last month, Kerstin Stief had the chance to see VMware, Nokia, PathSolutions, Kemp, and Juniper up close and personal! In a post and podcast on her website data-disrupted.de, Kerstin talks through her thoughts on the event and conclusion that the monitoring market is on the move. Head over to her website to read and hear more about her thoughts on Networking Field Day.
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Podcast: Netzmanagement on Steroids und andere Einsichten
Meet Field Day Delegate – Peter Mackenzie
We’ve got an excellent lineup of delegates for the upcoming Mobility Field Day thanks in large part to a slate of new delegates including Peter Mackenzie! Peter took a few minutes to tell us a bit about himself on GestaltIT.com. Head over to the Meet the Delegate post to learn more about him!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Peter Mackenzie
Presenters React to Networking Field Day
A lot of great content was presented during Networking Field Day last month! The delegates were very happy to hear about the state of the networking industry from leaders in the technology that is driving the way we will do work in the future. From network analytics and provisioning to new solutions like 5G, every presenter brought something unique to the table. Check out this video to find out what the presenters thought of the experience!
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Presenters React to Networking Field Day
Meet Field Day Delegate – Dan Jones
Let’s welcome Dan Jones to the Tech Field Day community! He is an Apple consultant who specializes in MDM and WiFi and is the technical director of a system integrator in the UK. Dan will be joining us next month at Mobility Field Day, so be sure to tune in and catch him on the delegate panel!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Dan Jones
Cloud Field Day 11 Is Coming Up!
Cloud Field Day is back! Delegate Adam Fisher details what he’ll be seeing at this week’s event, as well as a reminder to follow along with #CFD11 for all the updates. Tune in this Wednesday through Friday to catch the great content from Cloud Field Day. Thanks for joining us, Adam!
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Cloud Field Day 11 is coming up!
Riverbed and the Search for Total Awareness
From his personal blog at eigenmagic.com, this piece by Justin Warren describes his experiences as a delegate during April’s Tech Field Day event, specifically the presentation by Riverbed. Their WAN acceleration product made them famous, but as they detailed during the event, Riverbed is expanding into the network visibility space. Read Warren’s blog to see what he thinks about Riverbed’s announcement and watch their presentations for all of the new announcements coming out of Riverbed.
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Riverbed And The Search For Total Awareness
Arriba Aruba! — Intelligent Secure Network Infrastructure
Addressing her time as a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day, this piece by Kerstin Stief, publisher and editor-in-chief of data://disrupted, gives a breakdown of the presentations by Aruba Networks. Specifically, the Medium-hosted post covers how Aruba is addressing network security in modern infrastructure, regardless of the size of enterprise. Read on for her takeaways, and be sure to watch Aruba’s presentation to hear what all was discussed.
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Arriba Aruba! — Intelligent secure network infrastructure
Vcinity Minimizes Latency to Bring Local Network Performance to Geo-Dispersed Applications and Data
Data management becomes more challenging as data and applications are dispersed across multiple environments, including on-premises and public clouds. At Tech Field Day in April, Vcinity introduced its Vcinity Data Access Platform (VDAP), which enables organizations to sustain Local Area Network-like throughput over Wide Area Network distances. Vcinity’s VDAP works to ease the challenges associated with data management, such as keeping multiple copies of the same data in sync or moving data around for many organizations. To learn more about Vcinity and its Vcinity Data Access Platform, be sure to check out the videos of their Tech Field Day presentation on our website!
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Vcinity Minimizes Latency to Bring Local Network Performance to Geo-Dispersed Applications and Data
Server Building Block + Storage + Networking = Pure Storage’s FlashBlade
During April’s Tech Field Day event, Pure Storage presented their solution to the problem of unstructured data in the enterprise: their new FlashBlade server blocks. FlashBlade combines storage and networking needs into a single package, reducing latency and compute times while maintaining a small form factor for server stack scalability. Read this piece to learn more about FlashBlade, and be sure to watch Pure’s presentation for a full technical breakdown.
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Server Building Block + Storage + Networking = Pure Storage's FlashBlade
Networking Field Day 25, Part 2
Bryton Herdes gives his breakdown of the presentations he watched as a delegate during May’s Networking Field Day event in this post on his personal blog, https://next-hopself.net/. This post in particular covers the appearances of Nokia, Aruba Networks, IP Infusion, and Juniper Networks. Check out the piece to hear Herdes’ opinions, and watch each companies presentation for more information.
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Networking Field Day 25, Part 2
Disclosure: Tech Field Day 23
Justin Warren gives a breakdown of his time as a delegate at April’s Tech Field Day event in this post. In the same tune as his past disclosure pieces, Warren discusses his approach to the event, as well as some of the swag he received from the sponsors. Read on for more information, and tune into all of the Tech Field Day presentations from this event to see Warren in action.
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Marc Staimer
Let’s welcome Marc Staimer to the Tech Field Day community! Marc is an industry expert and consultant in the Data Center and Cloud. He has joined us for Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE and AI Field Day so far. Head on over to GestaltIT.com and get to know Marc in this Meet the Delegate post!
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Marc Staimer
BlueCat Moves DDI to the Cloud
Bluecat is completely changing the DDI game by shifting it entirely to the cloud, as they presented during April’s Tech Field Day event. This piece dives into just what exactly that means for the industry as a whole, and how their cloud DDI solution solves four key issues the cloud presents in the realm of DDI. Learn more by reading the post, or watching BlueCat’s presentation for yourself.
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BlueCat Moves DDI to the Cloud
Riverbed Optimizes Your Network and Applications Through Performance and Visibility
April’s Tech Field Day event served as the spotlight for Riverbed to talk about how their new Unified NPM platform is painting a bigger picture of network and app telemetry. This post details their presentation, specifically how the platform works and the benefits it provides enterprises. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch Riverbed’s Phil Gervasi present on the Unified NPM platform during their Tech Field Day appearance.
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Riverbed Optimizes Your Network and Applications through Performance and Visibility
Hybrid Cloud Data Management With Scality at Cloud Field Day
This piece by Gestalt IT’s staff writer dives into Scality’s presentation from the Cloud Field Day event in March. There, Scality presented the various ways their products can help organizations to better manage their data in the cloud. Read on for a full breakdown of the presentations, or watch the presentations themselves for more info.
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Hybrid Cloud Data Management with Scality at Cloud Field Day
BrainChip Highlights Its Akida Neural Processor at AI Field Day 2
This press release covers the exciting announcement of the Akida neural processor by BrainChip at May’s AI Field Day. Capable of advancing a number of smart edge use cases, the neural processor SoC features high performance in a small form factor. Read the press release for more, and be sure to watch BrainChip’s AI Field Day to see Akida in action.
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BrainChip Highlights Its Akida Neural Processor at AI Field Day 2
The Enterprise Is Not Ready for AI
This episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, released just before May’s AI Field Day events, features host Stephen Foskett who is joined by Chris Grundemann, Ayodele Odubela, and Frederic Van Haren. Their discussion surrounds the feasibility of using AI on an enterprise scale, including the infrastructure and skill set required to roll it out at scale, as well as the potential ethical dilemmas that it could spark. Listen to the full episode to hear why the enterprise simply isn’t ready for AI.
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The Enterprise is Not Ready for AI
DDI Scenarios That Can Hurt Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy
BlueCat’s Andrew Wertkin presented at Tech Field Day in April. During the presentation, Andrew whiteboarded three scenarios to show how DDI challenges affect your hybrid cloud strategy. These scenarios were setting up a VPC, the use of a single DNS zone across multiple namespaces, and hybrid cloud DNS routing setups. Head over to BlueCat.com to explore these instances and catch the full presentation video!
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DDI scenarios that can hurt your hybrid cloud strategy
NFD25 – Juniper + Apstra – IBN
This article from the Portuguese Rodrigo Rovere, blogger at Cisco Redes and Tech Field Day delegate, describes his experiences acting as a delegate at May’s Networking Field Day event. The piece focuses on the presentations by Juniper Networks and Apstra, specifically their demos and what their announcements mean for the networking industry. Read on for Rovere’s full opinions, and watch the presentations by Juniper and Apstra to see for yourself.
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