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.
Protecting Data In-Use Through Confidential Computing With Intel SGX
This piece details Intel’s appearance at March’s Cloud Field Day, where they showcased their Software Guard Extensions (SGX) for protecting data in-use. As a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, Intel has a vested interest in protecting customer data, and their SGX solution provides a way to create data alcoves which prevent chunks of critical data from being tampered with while in use in an application. Read on to learn more about how it works, and check out the rest of Intel’s Cloud Field Day presentation for more technical info, as well as a deep dive into their Telemetry solution.
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Protecting Data In-Use through Confidential Computing with Intel SGX
GigaOm Live – 4.16.21
In this first ever episode of the livestreamed GigaOm Live show, host Johnny Baltisberger is joined by analysts Jason Collier and Enrico Signoretti, who discuss their experiences at the recent Tech Field Day event in late April. Specifically, the crew dives into news surrounding NetApp as well as the Tech Field Day presentations by Micron and Xilinx. Tune in to hear all of their discussion, and check out April’s Tech Field Day for the technical context.
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Tech Field Day 23 Recap
First-time delegate alert! We were excited to have David Klee at his first event at Tech Field Day last month! On his blog, DavidKlee.net, he writes about his first event and focuses in on four presenters: Hazelcast, Vcinity, BlueCat Networks, and Pure Storage. Head over to his blog to hear his thoughts on his first event, and here’s to many more!
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Enabling Intent-Based With Airwall
In the latest post on his blog, Pieter-Jan Nefkens looks back at the first event he attended with us as a delegate: Security Field Day 3! At the event he saw Tempered present on their Airwall solution. On his post Pieter-Jan walks through how the Airwall solution can help demonstrate the capabilities of Intent-Based Networking. Head over to Nefkens.net to see his thoughts as well as a brief demo of Airwall itself.
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Enabling Intent-Based with Airwall
Data://express 0005 – Scality ARTESCA Launch, DELL Verschlankung, Darktrace an Der Börse
Wolfgang Stief attended the “Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE” as a delegate last month. On the latest version of the Data Disrupted podcast with Wolfgang and Kerstin Stief, they talk about the launch of ARTESCA at the event as well as a few other current topics. Head over to the Data Disrupted website to learn more about their thoughts or head to the Tech Field Day website to see Scality’s ARTESCA launch!
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data://express 0005 – Scality ARTESCA Launch, DELL Verschlankung, Darktrace an der Börse
How Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Architecture Supports AI at the Edge
Intel rocked the world earlier this year with the release of their 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed “Ice Lake,” which are designed specifically for advancing compute capabilities of servers. In their exclusive Tech Field Day event surrounding the new release, Intel gave an overview of how the Xeon platform is changing the AI edge game. Read on to learn about what Ice Lake has to offer, and be sure to watch Intel’s exclusive Tech Field Day event for more information.
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How Intel's 3rd Gen Xeon Architecture Supports AI at the Edge
Continuous Cloud Optimization Through Spot by NetApp
Many of today’s organizations have adopted cloud-based resources and infrastructure as key parts of their operations. The next step is to optimize them, which is what NetApp aims to do through Spot Ocean, part of Spot by NetApp. At March’s Cloud Field Day, NetApp detailed how IT practitioners can evaluate their containers and microservices in Kubernetes to maximize output while minimizing costs. For more information, check out NetApp’s presentation at Cloud Field Day on our website!
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Continuous Cloud Optimization through Spot by NetApp
Presenters React to the Tech Field Day Experience
Tech Field Day last month was a success and presenters were thrilled with the experience. Check out this video and post to see what the presenters thought of the interactive format, delegate interaction, and more!
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Presenters React to the Tech Field Day Experience
Anticipating NFD25
Chris Cummings joined us for Networking Field Day earlier this month! In his post, Chris expresses how excited he is to attend and identifies the topics he was hoping to tackle at the event, from IPv6 to Automation and API Support. Head over to Twitter and follow Chris at @CrankyNetMan to see all his tweets from the event!
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Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
Tintri, a presenter at Storage Field Day earlier this year, is working hard to balance peak performance and ease of management for on-premises workloads. While presenting, they highlighted their VMstore Intelligent Infrastructure which is “designed to self-optimize virtual workloads by leveraging analytics and machine learning.” The staff at GestaltIT.com write that that VMstore’s ability to self-optimize can help overworked infrastructure teams and improve performance. Head over to the Tech Field Day YouTube channel and check out Tintri’s Storage Field Day presentation to learn more!
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Tintri VMstore Delivers Self-Optimizing and Intelligent Infrastructure for Virtual Workloads
118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
In one of the latest GreyBeards On Storage Podcasts, Ray Lucchesi and Keith Townsend talk with HPE’s Stephen Bacon and Scality’s Greg DiFraia to talk about their joint partnership to release ARTESCA: a new cloud native object storage solution. The Scality-HPE solution ARTESCA was announced at a Tech Field Day Exclusive event last month where Ray was a delegate. On the podcast they discuss the direction of the IT world, edge solutions, and of course ARTESCA! Head over to the GreyBeards On Storage page to listen to the full, enlightening conversation
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118: GreyBeards talks cloud-native object storage with Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance With Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data
Is “Storageless Data” a thing? At Storage Field Day in January, Hammerspace made their pitch on how they could utilize it to “simplify and unify the management of disparate storage systems, whether on-premises or in a public cloud.” The staff at GestaltIT.com watched Hammerspace’s presentation and writes that “with Hammerspace, organizations can couple together disparate storage systems across multiple sites into a unified platform” and indicate implications for the management of that data. Check out the GestaltIT Staff take on Hammerspace’s unique offering and watch their Storage Field Day videos to learn more about it!
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Hammerspace Unlocks Scale and Performance with Hybrid Cloud Storageless Data
GigaOm Live 4.23.21
On their April 23rd broadcast of GigaOm Live, the team from GigaOm discuss Tech Field Day! Specifically, delegates Enrico Signoretti and Jason Collier who attended the latest Tech Field Day discuss appearances from several companies and focus in on Vcinity and Scality. Head over to YouTube to check out their thoughts or to the Tech Field Day website to watch videos from the event!
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Join Us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!
What is the future of data? See how Scality in conjunction with Hewlett Packard Enterprise are revolutionizing the way we store data in this exclusive Tech Field Day event. Stay tuned for the launch of Scality’s newest product, ARTESCA, to see how it works.
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Join us on April 27th for Making the Future of Data Possible: An Event by Scality and HPE!
StorageOS: Enabling Anything-As-A-Service Through Cloud Native Storage
When StorageOS appeared at March’s Cloud Field Day, they made a statement to the industry that their storage solution can serve as the backbone for delivering nearly anything as a service from the cloud. This post dives into their presentation, detailing how StorageOS positions their product as an extensible, agile way to store objects for cloud applications. Learn more by reading the post or watching StorageOS’s original Cloud Field Day presentations.
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StorageOS: Enabling Anything-as-a-Service through Cloud Native Storage
Making the Most of Unstructured Data With Komprise
At March’s Cloud Field Day, Komprise showed off how their data management solution is capable of tackling the problem of mass amounts of unstructured data in an organization. This piece covers the major takeaways from their presentation, as well as some of the reasoning behind Komprise’s approach to data management. Read on to learn more, and be sure to watch all of the Komprise Cloud Field Day appearance for technical deep dives and demos.
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Making the Most of Unstructured Data with Komprise
Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch, Discussion and Demonstration – Part Two
Delegate Barry Coombs is back with another doodle from Scality and HPE’s ARTESCA launch event! In Part Two of this doodle series, Barry focuses on the Tech Field Day portion of the event. This consisted of a DevOps panel discussion, ARTESCA UI Fly-Through, and a delegate roundtable. Barry notes that he was particularly impressed with ARTESCA’s ability to “allow for visibility and reporting of the underlying infrastructure layers including Kubernetes and the HPE hardware status.” Check out Barry’s blog for more doodles from the event!
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Scality & HPE #ARTESCA Launch, Discussion and Demonstration - Part Two
Data://express 0004 – Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Grace, Composable Infrastructure, RDMA Over WAN
In this episode of the German data://disrupted podcast, Wolfgang and Kerstin Stief describes Wolfang’s experiences as a delegate at Intel’s special Tech Field Day event surrounding the release of their Ice Lake 3rd Gen Xeon scalable processors. The pair dive into the release, as well as the announcement of the AI-focused CPU from NVIDIA, called Grace. Tune in to hear more, including the other topics discussed, and check out Intel’s exclusive Tech Field Day event to get all of the details about Ice Lake.
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data://express 0004 – Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Grace, Composable Infrastructure, RDMA over WAN
How Forward Networks Fosters Empathy in Tech
This article covers Forward Networks’ recent appearance at Networking Field Day, discussing how since their first even Networking Field Day appearance up until now, Forward Networks has focused on making the lives of network admins easier. This emphasis on empathy has propelled Forward’s products into the limelight, both here at Networking Field Day as well as in the minds of their customers. To learn more about what empathy means in the tech industry, read this article and watch Forward Network’s presentation.
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How Forward Networks Fosters Empathy in Tech
Simplifying Network Automation With Itential
In their appearance at Networking Field Day in February, Itential showcased their network automation solution. This piece dives into what benefits the product offers networking teams and how Itential looks to make automation easier by reducing the amount of coding required by networking teams. Read on to learn more, or watch Itential’s Networking Field Day presentation to see for yourself how it works.
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