The presentation centers on the critical evolution from traditional disaster recovery to a more robust framework of cyber resilience. Chris Bevil, a recovering CISO, shares his transition from the high-stress frontline of security to Commvault, where he now focuses on the intersection of IT, security, and board-level business objectives. He emphasizes that the modern threat […]
What’s NEW at Object First
Anthony Cusimano, Director of Solutions Marketing and one of the company’s earliest employees, provides a roadmap of the company’s rapid hardware and software evolution. Since its inception with OOTBI (Out-of-the-Box Immutability), Object First has expanded its portfolio to include the Ootbi 432, a 2U-node offering 432 terabytes of RAID 60 storage. A single four-node cluster […]
Object First Honeypot Demo with Geoff Burke
Senior Technology Advisor Geoff Burke showcases the integrated honeypot functionality built into the Object First appliance. Designed as a digital tripwire, the honeypot is physically hosted on the appliance but logically segmented to ensure security. It serves as an early warning system to detect lateral movement and reconnaissance efforts by attackers who typically probe the […]
How Object First Achieves Absolute Immutability
Geoff Burke, a senior technology advisor at Object First, outlines the architecture of their “Out-of-the-Box Immutability” (OOTBI) solution. Built on Zero Trust principles, the system secures data by assuming breach at every level, from production data and backup software to the primary storage target. The Object First appliance is a hardened Linux-based on-premises storage target […]
Why Object First is Best for Veeam
Object First was founded with the specific mission of creating a backup storage solution that is ransomware proof. The company focuses on addressing the primary vulnerability in data protection: the storage target. Since 96% of ransomware attacks target backup data to prevent recovery, Object First provides an intentionally hardened, immutable storage appliance designed specifically for […]
Veeam Unleash – Enable AI and Advance Use Cases
Michael Cade and Emilee Tellez introduce the Unleash pillar, which focuses on empowering administrators to leverage backup data for AI-driven insights and advanced operational use cases. Veeam addresses the common challenge of garbage in, garbage out by providing a framework to ensure data hygiene before it is used to train models or fuel AI agents. […]
Veeam Resilience – Protect Everything, Recover Anything
Rick Vanover and Emilee Tellez focus on the core of the Veeam portfolio: Resilience. The presenters track the evolution of data protection through three distinct generations of disasters, starting with Operational Resilience (fire, flood, and hardware failure), moving into Cyber Resilience (ransomware and targeted encryption), and arriving at the emerging frontier of AI Resilience. This […]
Veeam Security – Protect and Reduce Risk
In this presentation, Michael Cade and Emilee Tellez explain how Veeam has expanded its focus from traditional backup to comprehensive Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). By treating an organization’s data ecosystem like a “social network of data,” Veeam’s Data Command Center provides visibility into data lineage, sovereignty, and access rights across structured and unstructured systems. […]
Veeam Understand – Know Your Data
In this session, Field CTOs Michael Cade and Emily Tellez dive into the practical application of Veeam’s four-pillar strategy, focusing heavily on the Understand phase. Central to this approach is the recent acquisition of a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution, now integrated as the Data Command Center. This tool acts as a “social network […]
Veeam in 2026 with Rick Vanover
In this presentation, Rick Vanover reintroduces Veeam as a global leader that has evolved far beyond its origins in virtual backup. Now clearing over $2 billion in revenue with a workforce of 6,000 employees, the company has secured the top market share spot and expanded its reach into diverse environments ranging from Antarctica to submarines. […]
Knowledge and culture retained for all by the Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Joy Chesbrough introduces us to the Internet Archive’s mission and accomplishments before examining how this public-good service is funded and operated. Joy, who leads the organization’s philanthropy efforts, explained that the Internet Archive was founded by technologist Brewster […]
Why VCF Networking NSX Is Essential Even in a VXLAN World with VMware by Broadcom
Physical fabrics may provide VXLAN, but modern private clouds demand far more than basic overlay connectivity. This video explores how VCF Networking (NSX) decouples networking from the physical fabric, enabling automated, policy-driven network services that integrate natively with vCenter and VCF Automation. We also examine Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), which empower developers to instantly provision […]
The Rise and Fall of the Cloud – Again with Tom Lyon
Tom Lyon begins by suggesting that if cloud computing is defined as outsourcing data processing to a company that owns the equipment, then the concept is nearly a hundred years old. He traces its origins to the 1930s, when IBM established service bureaus where clients could bring data to be processed using punch cards and […]
Database as a Service (DBaaS) with VMware Data Services Manager from VMware by Broadcom
Open-source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL are in high demand, but provisioning them often creates bottlenecks for vSphere admins and DBA teams. Ticket queues grow, governance slips, and “shadow IT” introduces risk. In this video, we show how VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) enables on-demand Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on VMware Cloud Foundation. Learn how infrastructure policies […]
The DRAM Barrier – Why VMware Advanced Memory Tiering is a Data Center Game Changer with VMware
Memory is often the most expensive and restrictive bottleneck in modern datacenters. VMware Memory Tiering (an industry exclusive) solves this by automating data placement across high-performance and cost-optimized memory tiers. This session explores how this unique hypervisor integration drives 40%+ TCO savings, improves VM density, and ensures smarter resource consumption. Learn why VMware is the […]
Accelerate cloud and AI workloads with the Hammerspace Data Platform
Hammerspace is a data platform for unstructured data that helps customers unify all their data storage and accelerate their workloads, including AI, to deliver results faster – both in the cloud and in their own data centers. This session will introduce Hammerspace and how it helps cloud customers maximize performance, avoid wholesale data migration, and […]
The Internet Archive Presents at Cloud Field Day 25
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Joy Chesbrough will introduce us to the Internet Archive’s mission and accomplishments, before looking at how this public good service is funded and operated.
