Presentation Archives - Tech Field Day

Mastering Tokenomics and FinOps with VMware Cloud Foundation

A private cloud delivers its economic promise only when IT teams actively manage capacity, rightsizing, and operational visibility. Without proper governance, overprovisioning and dark capacity can quickly erode the financial advantages of on-premises infrastructure. This practitioner-focused session breaks down how to build an operational FinOps practice natively within VCF. We step away from high-level ROI […]

Getting More from Your GPUs with VMware Cloud Foundation

GPUs represent a massive capital investment, yet enterprise AI initiatives frequently struggle with underutilized hardware, fragmented access, and low compute efficiency. Unlocking true return on investment requires hardware-aware virtualization and dynamic resource orchestration. In this technical deep-dive, we explore how VCF optimizes enterprise GPU infrastructure for production AI pipelines. We detail the architectural mechanics of […]

Controlling Video Conferencing Traffic with Doug Schaefer

How and why to approach a hybrid setup for managing video collaboration in Azure/AWS/GCP, differences from full SaaS out of the box, and manipulating call signaling behaviors. A niche UC topic, but also an underappreciated one. Doug Schaefer, CTO at the value-added reseller American Sound and a first-time Cloud Field Day presenter, framed his talk […]

Troubleshooting Application Reachability in a Hybrid Cloud Demonstration by Selector

John Heintz, who leads Selector’s pre-sales engineering team, demonstrates how an operator would use the platform to troubleshoot application reachability problems whose causes are hidden across hybrid infrastructure. In the first scenario, an operator named Michael receives a Slack alert (ServiceNow or another ticketing tool would work the same way) reporting that an application called […]

An Operational Model for Cloud Agentic Applications with Selector

In this Cloud Field Day 26 session, Sirish Kondi, who leads the data infrastructure team at Selector, walked through the engineering behind the platform’s hybrid cloud capabilities using a scenario in which an on-call engineer is alerted that a Dallas application is no longer reachable. On-premises environments offer natural boundaries such as sites and data […]

Multi-Cloud Observability with Selector

In this Cloud Field Day 26 session, Reza Koohrangpour, head of product marketing at Selector, introduced the company and framed the problem it aims to solve in bringing cloud and network operations together. He explained that Selector’s founders previously led switching and routing at Juniper and that the team combines networking and AI expertise drawn […]

Expanding Cloud-Native Protection Across Clouds With Commvault

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and the reconstruction of downstream dependencies. In the closing segment of Commvault’s Cloud Field Day 26 session, Jeff Cassianna […]

HPE Networking Presents at Security Field Day 16

Anatomy of an AI Application – Clumio Final Cut Box Office Analyzer with Commvault

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and rebuilding downstream dependencies. In the final scenario of their Cloud Field Day 26 session, Jeff Cassianna and his […]

Anatomy of an AI Application – Clumio Final Cut Concierge Chatbot with Commvault

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and rebuilding downstream dependencies. In this Cloud Field Day 26 session, Jeff Cassianna and his colleague Akshay used a […]

Cisco Security Presents at Security Field Day 16

In Place Cloud-Native Application Recovery with Clumio by Commvault

Akshay Joshi and Jeff Cassiana introduce Clumio as a SaaS-first cyber-resilience solution that provides cloud data protection and in-place recovery for modern data pipelines. Founded in 2017 and acquired by Commvault in 2024, Clumio has expanded its cloud-native support across workloads like Amazon S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Apache Iceberg, and Google Cloud Storage. The presenters address […]

Doug Schaefer Presents at Cloud Field Day 26

Cloud video hosting/interoperability with Microsoft Teams/Zoom/Webex. How and why to approach a hybrid setup for managing video collaboration in Azure/AWS/GCP, differences from full SaaS out of the box, and manipulating call signaling behaviors. Kind of a niche UC topic, but also an underappreciated one.