The importance of sustainability in the enterprise storage industry is often underestimated, but it’s crucial to evaluate aspects such as efficiency, power consumption, cooling, and waste to build sustainable solutions. As the dominant components in the market, Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) play a significant role, with their power consumption compared to Solid State Drives (SSDs) […]
S3 Is an Accidental Storage Protocol
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) has spawned an essential protocol for object storage, despite initially being intended as an API for a cloud service rather than a traditional protocol. However, the lack of standardization and documentation has led to considerable discrepancies in its implementation and use. Creating a universal standard for S3 faces numerous obstacles, […]
Is SONiC The Future of Switching?
Modern switches need modern operating systems. We’ve seen innovation all around with the latest software offerings from a variety of vendors. How does the open source community stack up? The Networking Field Day delegates discuss SONiC, the open source NOS from Microsoft and how it compares. Discussions include suitability for the enterprise, governance and stewardship […]
Security is Hard and You Just Need to Deal With it
Security is a complicated discipline of IT that requires attention and skill. Defenders are constantly on edge trying to prevent data breaches and ransomware attacks. How can professionals keep on top of the latest trends and protect their users? Should we rely on tools to solve our problems? And how do the goals of the […]
Aruba Atmosphere 2023 Roundtable: Discussing Aruba’s Big Announcements from Atmosphere
Join the Networking Field Day Experience delegates as they discuss the announcements from Aruba Atmosphere 2023. Hear how new technologies and acquisitions are building HPE Aruba Networking into a premier company that can address edge connectivity and security needs. Learn about new wireless technologies that are being integrated into the Aruba portfolio and where you […]
Visibility and Automation Should Be Working Together
Automation isn’t going to take our jobs away any time soon. One of the major reasons why is because we don’t trust it yet to do the major jobs we rely on people to accomplish. Is it because we don’t think a script is capable of doing things a human would do? Or is it […]
Enterprises Should Act More Like Service Providers
Large enterprises treat their users and departments like a service provider. IT functions to meet their needs instead of being a slow cost center. That works for the Fortune 50 but why hasn’t it filtered down to smaller organizations yet? Are IT departments ill-equipped to function in this way at smaller sizes? Does the trend […]
Delegates React to Storage Field Day 25
Tune in as the Field Day delegates discuss the presentations at Storage Field Day 25: Index Engines CyberSense, IBM Storage Scale and Fusion, Amazon Web Services EBS and Data Protection, and StorPool Storage. This open discussion gives the delegates to consider the technologies and products presented and put them in context within the broader enterprise […]
The Future of Enterprise Storage – Storage Field Day 25 Delegate Roundtable
The Storage Field Day 25 delegates consider the future of enterprise and cloud storage in anticipation of the presentations at this event. The storage industry is broadening beyond the previous focus on storage arrays to embrace the cloud and advanced features on top of the storage array. There is some optimism that technology like NVMe, […]
Wednesday Delegate Roundtable Discussion
Join the Storage Field Day delegates as they discuss the future of enterprise storage
Security Automation with ZEDEDA and Opengear
Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of organizations will have adopted Zero Trust as their opening security move. As companies calibrate and recalibrate their security strategies in a bid to thrive in a hostile digital environment, embracing principles like Zero Trust has become increasingly pivotal to managing cyber risk.
Deploying Applications Across Edge Locations with Mako Networks and Avassa
As companies have gone from having small footprint at the edge to tens of thousands of deployed edge applications, edge computing has become the next logical step to ensure a snappy user experience. The value it brings for applications in the forms of low latency and persistent availability are key to driving up customer engagement.
Delegates React to Tech Field Day 27
The Tech Field Day delegates discuss the presentations and technologies seen at Tech Field Day 27, including the presentations of Men&Mice, MemVerge, Astera Labs, Xconn, the CXL Consortium, and Kentik.