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.
Considering the Impact of CXL – Tech Field Day 27 Delegate Roundtable
Compute Express Link (CXL) is poised to revolutionize enterprise computing, but what impact will it really have? This roundtable discussion features the Tech Field Day 27 delegates discussing the reality of CXL today and this year, the prospects for disaggregated and composable computing, and the path from memory expansion to pooling and beyond.
Delegates Reflect on Edge Computing at Edge Field Day 1
This roundtable discussion gives the Edge Field Day delegates time to reflect on the topics and themes presented at the event. Considering the overall themes of the event, the delegates highlighted questions of security, zero-touch provisioning, scalability, and automation. Another key perspective is that there are many vendors and products serving many different buyers in different […]
Edge Field Day Wednesday Roundtable
Join the Edge Field Day delegates, Avassa, and Mako Networks for a roundtable discussion focused on deployment of applications at the edge. Featuring Simon Gamble, Alastair Cooke, Carl Moberg, and Ben Young.
Are You Doing Automation Wrong?
Network automation is the utopia we’ve all dreamed of. No more dreary tasks and accidental mistakes that take down the network. But are we focused on the ends? Or just the means? Have we lost sight of what network automation should look like because we can’t seem to stop staring at tools? How can we […]
Single Pane of Glass Can’t Fix Security Tools
Security tools are so numerous it’s hard to keep track of them. So many, in fact, that no one solution can even manage them all. Is Single Pane of Glass really the best way to stay on top of the burgeoning dearth of solutions? Or should you be looking elsewhere? In this roundtable discussion featuring […]
Insider Threats Are The Biggest Infosec Problem
The biggest threat to your organization is working inside of it. The growing number of disgruntled employees selling access to internal resources is climbing higher than you can imagine. What are some good steps to take to prevent this from opening you up to attack? How can you spot potential insider issues before they spiral […]
Will We Be Forced to Live with Ransomware?
Ransomware is a constant threat that is only growing larger. The shift to making it a criminal enterprise is only making the job of the security team harder. In this roundtable discussion, the Security Field Day delegates discuss the motivations of attackers and steps you can take to protect yourself from them. Even if we’re […]
Where Do We Draw the Line Between Storage Infrastructure and Data – Storage Field Day Roundtable
Infrastructure is no longer the focus of enterprise IT, with the value of data and applications rising in prominence. Although infrastructure software and services are critical areas of consideration, the individual components that underly these systems are no longer as important. Most compute, memory, storage, and networking components function and perform similarly, so it takes […]
Managing the Blast Radius as System Components Get Bigger – Storage Field Day Roundtable
As every component of IT infrastructure gets bigger, we need to consider the impact of component faults. The so-called blast radius due to a failure has always been a consideration, and was taken into account with RAID, replication, high-availability architecture, and more. Even a small server has over a dozen cores, a terabyte of memory, […]
Edge Computing Past and Future Tech Field Day 26 Roundtable
What we now call edge computing is nothing new, but changes to the technology and communications stack have given it new purpose. Just as enterprise IT workloads are moving to the cloud, they are also moving to the edge, from 5G to remote offices to client devices. What has changed and how will this affect […]
It’s Time To Talk About Sustainability in Enterprise IT! A Field Day Roundtable
Every enterprise IT product company is talking about sustainability and climate change, but is it real or is it marketing? Although ESG includes social progress and good governance, environmental sustainability is the first area that technology companies can address. The side effect of sustainable infrastructure is that it can bring energy savings, sometimes paying for […]
Which Hyperscale Technologies Are Useful to the Enterprise? A Field Day Roundtable
With hyperscale cloud service providers increasingly driving IT product development and standards, how will their technology decisions impact enterprise datacenter architecture? From OCP and CXL to Kubernetes and microservices, products initially developed for hyperscalers are coming to enterprise IT. What are the most promising hyperscale technologies for enterprises?