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.

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

WTF Is SASE?

Justin Warren attended October’s Security Field Day as a delegate. Justin couldn’t help but focus in on the buzz words and acronyms that were flying around during the presentations. In his post, he gives he thoughts on SASE, and the avalanche of acronyms in the tech world today. Read on for more here!

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WTF is SASE?

Dell EMC PowerStore X and the Edge

Ray Lucchesi attended the Dell exclusive Tech Field Day event this past summer and couldn’t figure out why it struck a nerve in him until now! He was very interested in the presentation’s Dell gave on PowerStore X appliances and AppsON technologies. Want to read more from Ray, check out his thoughts here!

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Dell EMC PowerStore X and the Edge

Ondat at Cloud Field Day 12

Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day, was set straight with Ondat’s presentation on their solution for Kube-native storage. Ondat is laser focused on supporting stateful workloads on Kubernetes and nothing else. Although their solution seems solid, Ned thinks it may lack some key features. Check out Ned’s podcast to see if their recently launched SaaS will be enough in comparison to their competitors!

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Ondat at Cloud Field Day 12

MemVerge at Cloud Field Day 12

There is a big chance that MemVerge will make a huge impact in the next five years with their new AppCapsule technology solution. Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day, has his mind buzzing from MemVerge’s presentation. Check out the developing product on Ned’s recent podcast on spotify!

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MemVerge at Cloud Field Day 12

Cloud Field Day Recap and Session Breakdown

Check out Veeam Software’s recap of Cloud Field Day from their very own Anthony Spiteri! This was Anthony’s third time presenting at a Field Day event and his first time experiencing a hybrid event. Read more here on their new Service Provider features, Backup for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud as well as an update on how Kasten is fitting into the Veeam platform.

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Cloud Field Day Recap and Session Breakdown

Yotascale at Cloud Field Day 12

Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day event, gives a brief 10-minute podcast on the depth of analytics and integration that Yotascale offered in their presentation. Ned was impressed by their multi-cloud cost management solution and thinks Yotascale can give cloud economists the data they need to do their job. Check out Ned’s podcast here or listen in on Spotify!

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Yotascale at Cloud Field Day 12

Tending Your Security Garden With Swimlane

Writing for Gestalt IT, Tom Hollingsworth gives us a deep dive into the security space problems Swimlane is solving with their new low-code approach, SOAR. This Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response platform is frequently used in security space to talk about engines that take information from alerts being triggered across the enterprise and formulating responses to them. Check out more on Tom’s take from Swimlane’s presentation, on SOAR, at October’s Security Field Day.

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Tending Your Security Garden with Swimlane

 

Is the M1 MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Really Slower?

Tom Hollingsworth discusses the WiFi capabilities in the new M1 MacBook Pro. On paper, the suggestion is that it is slower than the Intel models. In use, however, there is more than meets the eye in this model.

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Is the M1 MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Really Slower?

Draining My Social Battery

In this 10-minute, daily podcast, Ned Bellavance, a Field Day delegate, discusses technology, career advancement, and anything else relevant to the IT Professional in a brief, conversational style. Find Draining My Social Battery on your favorite podcast app through Anchor.

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Draining My Social Battery

Cloud Field Day 12

The time has finally come for the very first hybrid event in Cloud Field Day! Watch live from San Jose, California. Thanks to Field Day Delegate Nathan Bennet for providing the schedule for the event.

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Cloud Field Day 12

NFD26 – Performance Monitoring W/ NetBeez

NetBeez discusses monitoring network performance and having the relevant information at your fingertips before asking any questions at Networking Field Day 26.

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NFD26 – Performance Monitoring w/ NetBeez

Are We the DNS Baddies?

During one of the EfficientIT sponsored roundtable discussions at Security Field Day 6, the panelists discussed DNS security, and how useful watching what people do with DNS can be.

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Are We The DNS Baddies?

Cloud Field Day 12 Coming Later This Week!

David Ball, a selected Field Day Delegate for November’s Cloud Field Day Event, gives us a great overview of what to expect from the companies presenting at the event and how you can stay up to date with what is new through his social outlets. Tune in with David and more delegates as they take on this first hybrid event live from San Jose, California.

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Cloud Field Day 12 coming later this week!

Cloud Field Day 12 Coming Next Week!

Jim Jones will be in attendance as a delegate at the first hybrid Field Day event, giving us a great overview of what the companies presenting will be providing through his social outlets and blog. Tune in with Jim and the other delegates live at Cloud Field Day in San Jose, California.

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Cloud Field Day 12 Coming Next Week!

FIDO Device Onboard (FDO)

On October 21, 2021, Intel delivered three presentations to the delegates at Security Field Day 6. This post focuses on the presentation given by Richard Kerslake and Geoff Cooper, “FIDO Device Onboard (FDO),” where they talked about securely and cost-effectively deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices in industrial and enterprise environments.

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FIDO Device Onboard (FDO)