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As a long-time delegate, Keith has participated in over 35 Field Day Events. He has participated in Cloud, Data Center, Networking, AI, and Storage events. With over 25 years of experience advising, managing, and designing enterprise architecture, Keith brings a unique IT decision-maker lens to Field Day events.






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  1. Qlik – Opening a Broader Access to AI-Driven Data Analytics
  2. Unlocking AI Potential: Insights Into Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform
  3. Does Storage Matter in AI Inferencing? What About the SSD?
  4. Defeating Data Gravity? – Hammerspace
  5. Cloud Field Day – Infrastructure Matters on the Road
  6. Taking Private Cloud to the Next Level
  7. Do Processors Matter in the Cloud?
  8. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  9. VMware Cross-Cloud: Is It a Viable Path Post Broadcom?
  10. Navigating Multicloud Security Challenges: A Deep Dive Into Prosimo’s Approach
  11. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  12. Private Data Centers vs. Public Cloud: Can Apstra Automation Bridge the Gap?
  13. 155: GreyBeards SDC23 Wrap Up Podcast With Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. Of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD
  14. Cloud Adjacent vs. Native Cloud Services
  15. Hybrid Infrastructure Is an Operating Model
  16. Infrastructure as Code Is … Code
  17. Solving the Cloud Skills Shortage
  18. The Future of the Data Center Control Plane Is in the Public Cloud
  19. Juniper Powered by MIST AI – This Stuff Is Hard
  20. 118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
  21. CTOA Briefing – Storpool
  22. NetApp Data Science Toolkit
  23. Will the DPU Kill the Storage Array?
  24. Cloud Application Mobility – The Hard Way
  25. HPE vs Dell Cloud Stories – Who’s Winning?
  26. Dell EMC PowerStore: TFDx Quick Take
  27. OpenShift TFDx Hot Take – What’s the Tipping Point for K8s?
  28. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – Should Customers Wait?
  29. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – CTO Advisor Episode 118
  30. Hot Take Zerto 8.0 Tech Field Day 21
  31. Google Cloud VMware Engine – Hot Take
  32. vSphere Kubernetes Hot Take
  33. Dell Technologies PowerOne – Dell’s Private Cloud?
  34. Kubernetes and Traffic Lights
  35. Talent Is Heavier Than Data
  36. 91: Keith and Ray Show at CommvaultGO 2019
  37. Commvault Activate – CommvaultGo 2019
  38. Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere – The Future of IT
  39. Master’s Lesson in IT Management
  40. CommvaultGo 2019 Hot Take
  41. Pure Accelerate: Cloud Block Service
  42. Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
  43. VMware’s Cloud in 300-Words
  44. Dell Tech Cloud CFD6 – Hot Take
  45. Pure Accelerate FlashArray
  46. Lucid Link CFD6 – Hot Take
  47. NetApp CFD6 – Hot Take
  48. EXTRAHOP CFD6 Hot Take
  49. HashiCorp CFD6 Hot Take
  50. Morpheus Data CFD6 – Hot Take
  51. 89: Keith & Ray Show at Pure//Accelerate 2019
  52. Hammerspace CFD6 – Hot Take
  53. The Campus and Cloud-First
  54. Intel Answering SAP HANA’s Tough Questions
  55. Intel Data Centric Business Overview
  56. Meet Field Day Delegate – Keith Townsend
  57. Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
  58. Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
  59. Modern Data Protection Summary
  60. Musing: The Short Life of Influencers — EtherealMind
  61. Is Oracle Cloud an alternative to AWS?
  62. Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
  63. Rubrik – A metadata company in backup company’s clothing
  64. Cloud Field Day Interview: Nick Janetakis
  65. Serverless computing highlights new security challenges in hybrid IT
  66. Cloud Field Day 3 Preview – Data Protection
  67. NetApp Data Fabric Cloud Field Day 3 Preview
  68. Mitigating the risk of Cloud Lift & Shift
  69. An update on Oracle’s Cloud
  70. HCI/Not HCI – It doesn’t matter
  71. Storage is boring
  72. Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
  73. Solarwinds Orion Integration
  74. Converged Infrastructure died a long time ago, right?
  75. Are network vendors ignoring serverless security?
  76. CTO Advisor 068: Commvault HyperScale
  77. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  78. CTO Advisor 067: Should you worry about GDPR?
  79. Should you worry about GDPR?
  80. Don’t call it back up
  81. On-premises Serverless with Docker via OpenFaaS
  82. DockerCon 2017 EU – Docker integrates Kubernetes and Swarm
  83. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  84. Understanding Serverless Computing
  85. Why the hybrid IT control plane is destined for the public cloud
  86. Datacore Tech Field Day 15 Reap
  87. Riverbed Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  88. Actifio Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  89. Scale Computing Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  90. Ixia Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  91. Skyport Tech Field Day 15 Recap – YouTube
  92. Cisco Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  93. Inefficiencies of large systems
  94. 3 things infrastructure pros need to know about nested virtualization on Google Cloud
  95. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
  96. Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
  97. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
  98. Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
  99. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
  100. NVMe to enable truly composable infrastructure?
  101. VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
  102. Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
  103. Network as a Service provider TeloIP
  104. 3 Linux Foundation networking projects that your business needs to know
  105. [Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview
  106. IP Infusion: Network Field Day 15 Preview
  107. Ah… NSX, We Meet Again.
  108. Barefoot Networks looks to redefine ASIC in network device design with its Tofino chip
  109. How Intel’s open source Data Plane Development Kit enables high-performance Linux networking
  110. Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
  111. Simplifying Private Cloud – Easier said…
  112. Cirba – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  113. ZeroStack – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  114. FalconStor – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  115. 3 must-watch startups from VMware alum
  116. The potential of microservices within the data center
  117. TechTalk 9: Copy data solutions
  118. Hyperconverged vendor Maxta announces SDN partnership
  119. Is Data Virtualization the Future of Enterprise Storage?
  120. CopyData yeah… Long live Data Virtualization
  121. [Video] Storage Field Day 7 Review
  122. VMware – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  123. Transporter – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  124. Springpath – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  125. Primary Data – Storage Field Day 7
  126. Maxta – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  127. Kaminario – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  128. Exablox – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  129. Cloudian – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  130. Catalogic Software – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  131. Hyper-converged systems: What you need to know about this hot virtualization topic
  132. Why should CIO’s and business leaders care about Software Defined Networking
  133. What’s is Software Defined Storage – Techtalk 42
  134. Why abstraction (software-defined) is important – TechTalk 40
  135. Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence
  136. Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
  137. Is the software defined data center a VMware only concept?
  138. Dispelling the FUD around iSCSI
  139. SDDC is a little less than Vaporware
  140. The importance of the control plane in SDDC
  141. EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN
  142. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
  143. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium

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