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Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day events series. He also writes about networking and related technolgies on his blog at http://networkingnerd.net. With over 18 years of experience in the IT field, Tom has covered the breadth of technology from desktop deployment to data center installation. He brings his unique perspective to his writing both on his blog and at Network Computing. Tom can also be found prognosticating and commenting about technology from his Twitter account @networkingnerd.



147 Events Staffed

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50 Field Day Appearances


86 Field Day Videos


382 Links with Tag @NetworkingNerd

  1. Ground Rule of Cyber Hygiene: Keep Your Password Policy Up to Date
  2. Technology Silos Are a Thing of the Past
  3. Snowflake Networks are Built to Break
  4. WiFi isn’t Always the Best Solution
  5. Making the Most of Mobility Field Day 12
  6. AI is the Enabler of Network Innovation
  7. Advancing the Industry at Networking Field Day 36
  8. Automation Is Progressing, but at a Less-than-Breakneck Speed – A Conversation with Nokia
  9. You Don’t Need Post-Quantum Crypto Yet
  10. Nokia EDA Under the Hood with Erwan James
  11. Understanding Security Needs at Security Field Day 12
  12. Automation Sustainability with Nokia Event-Driven Automation
  13. The Brave New World of Security Field Day 12
  14. Network Automation Is More Than Just Tooling
  15. The Promise of Automation with Michael Bushong of Nokia
  16. Rethinking the Data Center with Nokia
  17. Ethernet is not Ready to Replace InfiniBand Yet
  18. 5G Factor: Arrcus, T-Mobile, Ericsson Boost 5G Readiness
  19. AI Has A Place In Networking Operations
  20. Experience Expansion
  21. Network as a Service is More of a Financial Model
  22. Network Engineering is a Dying Profession
  23. On-Premises Networks Need to Work Like Cloud Networks
  24. Summertime Fun With Networking Field Day 35
  25. It’s Time for Private 5G in the Enterprise
  26. Discovering New Things at Networking Field Day Exclusive
  27. Interviewing Brandon Heller of Forward Networks About Digital Twin
  28. The Legacy of Cisco Live
  29. AI is the New Blockchain
  30. Nerdy Summer Camp With Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2024!
  31. Cyber Insurance Premiums Rise Amid a Flurry of High-Profile Cyberattacks
  32. Dissecting Cloud Networking
  33. Platform Engineering Is the Revenge of IT Operations
  34. Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Enough For Future Wireless Needs
  35. Mobility Field Day 11 Is Your Lucky Day!
  36. Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good
  37. AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer
  38. Cyber Resiliency is Just Data Protection
  39. Taking Security Seriously at Security Field Day 11
  40. Using AI to Enhance Forward Networks NQE
  41. New Networking Ideas at Networking Field Day 34
  42. Excitement Abounds at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2024
  43. Asking the Right Question About the Wireless Future
  44. Wrapping Up a Year of Wireless With Mobility Field Day 10
  45. Setting a Foundation for Security With Security Field Day 10
  46. Does Automation Require Reengineering?
  47. Navigating Data Security at the Edge
  48. Finishing Strong With Networking Field Day 33
  49. Life on the Edge – a Roundtable Discussion
  50. Modernizing the Extranet With Alkira
  51. Ways to Amplify Unvalued Security Teams in Organizations
  52. Meet Field Day Delegate – Roy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink
  53. Summer Field Day Fun at Networking Field Day 32
  54. Cross Training for Career Completeness
  55. Safe and Sound at Security Field Day 9
  56. Excitement in the Air With Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023
  57. The Power of Expertise at Ventev
  58. Meet Field Day Delegate – Raymond Hendrix, Owner of Wi-Fi Wise International
  59. Meet Field Day Delegate – Kerry Kulp, Founding Partner at Velaspan
  60. Aruba Isn’t a Wireless Company (Any More)
  61. Making Mobility Magic at Mobility Field Day 9
  62. Fixing Firewall Sizing Issues With Prosmio
  63. The Amazing Way Observability Shapes Automation
  64. Excitement in the Air at Aruba Atmosphere 2023!
  65. Rethinking Search With Cribl
  66. Networking Field Day Returns This April!
  67. Tech Field Day Is Extra at Cisco Live EMEA!
  68. Friday Networking Field Day Thoughts
  69. Networking Into the Future With Networking Field Day 30
  70. The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast: Tom Hollingsworth
  71. Safe, Sound, and Secure With Security Field Day 8!
  72. Why Do We Accept Bad Wireless Clients?
  73. Monday Mobility Quick Thoughts
  74. Moving Faster With Mobility Field Day 8
  75. Redundancy Is Not Resiliency
  76. Even More to Explore With Networking Field Day 29!
  77. The Puzzle of Peering With Kentik
  78. Networking Field Day: Service Provider 2 Is Here!
  79. Friday Mobility Field Day Thoughts
  80. On the Go With Mobility Field Day 7!
  81. Creating a Consistent User Experience Across the Network
  82. The Silver Lining of Cisco Live
  83. Friday Thoughts Pre-Cisco Live
  84. Tech Field Day Extra Is Live With Cisco!
  85. Consistency Across the Board With Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN
  86. Quality to Be Named Later
  87. Friday Thoughts on the Full Stack
  88. Networking Field Day 28 Is Here!
  89. A Modest Proposal for Cisco Interface Naming
  90. Securing 2022 With Security Field Day 7!
  91. Join Tech Field Day and Cisco for an Exclusive!
  92. The Network Does Too Much
  93. A New Year of Networking at Networking Field Day 27!
  94. Threat Hunting for Exploits With Cisco
  95. A Service Provider Network Is Not Your Enterprise Network
  96. Get Ready for Networking Field Day: Service Provider!
  97. Securing 5G and IoT With Betacom
  98. Solving the Multi-Cloud Puzzle With Prosimo
  99. Tending Your Security Garden With Swimlane
  100. Is the M1 MacBook Pro Wi-Fi Really Slower?
  101. Fast Friday Thoughts From Security Field Day
  102. Focusing on a Secure Future at Security Field Day 6
  103. ZPE Systems Unifies the Remote Office
  104. Arrcus and the Vision for Application Acceleration
  105. All the Networking You Crave at Networking Field Day 26!
  106. Sharpening the Edge With Aruba
  107. Racing to the Future With NGINX Sprint
  108. The Future of Cloud Is Now With Cisco and Tech Field Day
  109. Start Your Engines for Networking Field Day – Service Provider
  110. Experience at the Edge With Mobility Field Day!
  111. Bringing Network Automation Home With Anuta Networks ATOM
  112. The Fork in the Network to Code Road With Nautobot
  113. Presenters React to Networking Field Day
  114. Networking Isn’t Just a Tool
  115. Even More Networking Field Day Headed Your Way May 12-14, 2021!
  116. Scality Announces ARTESCA | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 28, 2021
  117. Nailing Down Home Networking Issues With NetBeez
  118. Presenters React to Security Field Day
  119. Tune in for Tech Field Day Exclusive at Cisco Live Global 2021
  120. Session-Aware AI-Driven Networking With Juniper Networks
  121. Cisco Live Global 2021 Keynote Liveblog
  122. Presenters React to the Cloud Field Day Experience
  123. What Do the Delegates Think About Networking Field Day?
  124. Security Field Day Is Back March 23-25, 2021
  125. Tom’s Virtual Corner at Cisco Live Global 2021 – Anniversary
  126. Unifying SD-WAN and Edge With Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series
  127. Translating Your Network With Cisco Crosswork Network Controller
  128. Riverbed Wants You to Stop Being the Network Superhero
  129. Operationalizing Zero Trust Security With Illumio
  130. Cisco Tetration Helps Keep Security From Getting Left Behind
  131. Troubleshooting in an Isolated World With PathSolutions
  132. Keeping SLAs Honest With Broadcom
  133. Taking a Network Mulligan With Apstra
  134. Educating Teachers About Wireless With Metageek Rampart
  135. Top-Notch Troubleshooting With Arista and Cloudvision-As-A-Service
  136. Wide Area AI Networking With Juniper
  137. Gestalt IT Rundown: December 16, 2020
  138. Tomversations: Episode 11 – Data Processing Units (DPUs)
  139. Ending Wireless Eavesdropping With Wi-Fi Enhanced Open and Cisco
  140. The Value of Synthetic Testing With Catchpoint
  141. Challenging the Status Quo With CBRS and Celona
  142. Telemetry Troubles Solved With Intel Ingenuity
  143. Nothing but the Truths With IP Fabric
  144. The Truth Will Set You Free With NetBox
  145. Ring Around the Datacenter With Airvine
  146. SD-IoT With VMware Nyansa
  147. Mist Is the New Edge
  148. Modernizing AirMagnet With NetAlly
  149. Thoughts From Networking Field Day 23
  150. Unified Security Theory With Fortinet
  151. Host Separation With Tempered
  152. Opening Up Remote Access With Opengear
  153. Powering Your People With Ventev
  154. Redefining Service Protection With VMware Service-Defined Firewall
  155. Bad Behavior Analysis With Juniper Networks
  156. Fast Friday – Mobility Field Day 5 Edition
  157. What Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
  158. Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
  159. Cisco SecureX Roundtable
  160. Cisco Intent-Based Networking Roundtable
  161. The New Branch With Riverbed SD-WAN
  162. A Tale of Scale in Three Parts With Broadcom
  163. Go Time With PathSolutions
  164. Insightful Fabric Management With Cisco Network Insights
  165. Defeating Configuration Drift With Gluware
  166. Rogue Device Detection Thanks to PathSolutions
  167. A Week of Unexpected Expectedness With Forward Networks
  168. Tom’s Virtual Corner at Cisco Live US 2020
  169. Leaving Legacy Behind to Build Better Networks With DriveNets
  170. Pensando Places Programmability First
  171. Ensuring Code Quality With Arista
  172. Monitoring Application Performance From the Inside Out With Solarwinds AppOptics
  173. The Programmability Voyage With Barefoot Networks
  174. NGINX Meshes Well With Others
  175. Exorcising Network Ghosts With VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  176. A Measure of Automation With Juniper Networks
  177. Cloud Rich Updates in Zerto 8.0
  178. Dell EMC SmartFabric Director- Weaving a Tapestry of Green
  179. SD-WAN and Technical Debt
  180. Itential – The Network Glue You Need
  181. Moving Past the Edge With Aruba SD-Branch
  182. What Is Closed-Loop Automation?
  183. The Power of Communities – An Interview With David Penaloza Seijas
  184. Fast Friday – Networking Field Day 22 Thoughts
  185. Does SPB Mean “Secure Path Bridging”?
  186. Answers at Your Fingertips With Forward Networks
  187. Meraki Is Almost an Enterprise Solution
  188. Cisco Live Europe Reactions | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 29, 2020
  189. Priming Your Application Performance With Intel Application Device Queues
  190. Captivating Wireless Connectivity With Cisco OpenRoaming
  191. Testing the Whole System With NetAlly EtherScope nXG
  192. Really Late Company Christmas Shopping
  193. Assuring Your Service Level With Ixia IxProbe
  194. Over the Ramparts, Metageek Watched
  195. Stopping vMotion Roulette With Virtana
  196. Rethinking Networking Architecture With Arrcus
  197. Tackling Troublesome IoT With Fortinet
  198. The Value of Virtual Networks From Tesuto
  199. AI and Trivia
  200. The Name’s the Thing With Guardicore
  201. Monitoring Cloud Network Traffic With ExtraHop
  202. Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Tom Hollingsworth
  203. Building Better Policies With Machine Learning and Edgewise Networks
  204. Fragmentation Free With Aruba’s Newest Switches
  205. Malware Microsegmentation With Illumio
  206. All-In on AI With Mist and Juniper
  207. Fast Friday Thoughts – Networking Field Day 21
  208. Stopping Security Silos With Palo Alto Networks Cortex
  209. Bleeding the Dragon With WPA3 and Aruba – Gestalt IT
  210. 128 Technology – The Best Voice Routing Platform You’ve Never Heard Of
  211. Securing Your Enterprise With VIAVI Observer Apex
  212. Fast Friday – Mobility Field Day 4
  213. Stopping Network Blame With Kemp
  214. Rooted in Security With Banyan
  215. The Contention Window: S1E12 : TechFieldDay – Mobility Field Day 4 Preview
  216. Cross Pollinating Catalyst Platforms With NetBeez
  217. Remote Access Amazement With Opengear
  218. The Briar Patch of Software Patches
  219. The Development of DevNet’s Future
  220. Tackling Troublesome Tunnels With 128 Technology
  221. Meraki’s Eye in the Sky
  222. Intelligence in the Mist
  223. The Good, the Bad, and the Questionable: Acquisition Activities
  224. Avoiding Automation Archipelagos With Extreme Networks
  225. Yellow Capes and Safe Escapes – The Journey of Zoë Rose
  226. All-In With SD-WAN and Fortinet
  227. Security Field Day – The Non-Conference
  228. Layered Security Isn’t About Devices
  229. Defeating DDoS in the Network With Nokia
  230. Keeping the Network OS Contained With SnapRoute
  231. NSX-T Is Transformative for the Future of VMware
  232. Who Do You Trust in Your Community?
  233. OpenConfig and Wi-Fi – the Winning Combo
  234. Gestalt IT Live Blog – Aruba HER Keynote Address
  235. The Foundation of the Future With Barefoot Networks
  236. Fast Friday – Aruba Atmosphere 2019
  237. Device Validation Security in Service Provider Networks
  238. Drive Your Own Demo With Riverbed
  239. Making Way for the New With Cisco
  240. Kentik and the Negative Roadmap
  241. The Future of Sports Wi-Fi Is Intelligent With Extreme Networks
  242. Using Identity To Secure Workloads with Aporeto
  243. Aruba and the Need for WPA3 with OWE
  244. Visual Networking At It’s Finest with Apstra
  245. The Power of a Great Demo with Illumio
  246. Building More Factors For Security with Cisco Duo
  247. Some Random Thoughts From Security Field Day
  248. Automating the Mundane with Silver Peak
  249. When Is It Not Always DNS?
  250. The Need for Security Field Day
  251. Presenting To The D-Suite
  252. Jack Daniel and Tom Hollingsworth Discuss Community and Security
  253. Ookla Acquires Ekahau – The Future of Wi-Fi Design is Speedy!
  254. ARM Servers and End Times | Gestalt IT Rundown: September 19, 2018
  255. A Matter of Perspective
  256. The Cargo Cult of Google Tools
  257. Arista Is Finding Their Mojo In Wireless
  258. Becoming a Wi-Fi Superhero with Cape Networks
  259. Arista Is Finding Their Mojo In Wireless
  260. Friday Musings on Network Analytics
  261. Independence, Impartiality, and Perspective
  262. Cisco’s Container Journey to the Cloud
  263. Accessing Security Insights with SolarWinds Network Insight For Cisco ASA
  264. Unlocking VXLAN with Mellanox
  265. Extreme Networks SLX Platform – Extremely Easy Analytics
  266. Wireless Thoughts From Aruba Atmosphere
  267. Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
  268. Is ACI Coming For The CLI?
  269. Legacy IT Is Not A Monument
  270. Going Faster with 400Gbps Ethernet and Andy Bechtolsheim
  271. Architecting Container Direction with Nirmata
  272. Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
  273. Network Visibility with Barefoot Deep Insight
  274. Unmasking Bad Actors with Gigamon
  275. Dedicated Wireless Troubleshooting Doesn’t Have To Break The Bank
  276. Pluribus Networks Is the Definition of “Software Defined”
  277. Back In The Saddle Of A Horse Of A Different Color
  278. It’s Probably Not The Wi-Fi
  279. The History of The Wireless Field Day AirCheck
  280. Off The Cuff – Conferences And Social Media For Engineers
  281. Not The Cisco of John Chambers Anymore
  282. Don’t Build Big Data With Bad Data
  283. Short Take – The Present Future of the Net
  284. Extreme-ly Interesting Times In Networking
  285. Datanauts 077: Transitioning To A Less Technical Role
  286. Building Reliability
  287. Sorting Through SD-WAN
  288. Two Takes On ASIC Design
  289. Bringing 2017 To Everyone
  290. The Power of ONUG And What It Means To You
  291. OpenFlow Is Dead. Long Live OpenFlow.
  292. Nutanix and Plexxi – An Affinity to Converge
  293. Designer or Architect? It’s A Matter Of Choice
  294. Facebook Wedge 100 – The Future of the Data Center?
  295. DevOps and the Infrastructure Dumpster Fire
  296. Ten Years of Cisco Live – Community Matters Most of All
  297. DockerCon Thoughts – Secure, Sufficient Applications
  298. Flash Needs a Highway
  299. Tech Field Day Extra at ONUG Spring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2
  300. How Networking Is Driving Systems Development
  301. Tech Field Day Extra at ONUG Spring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1
  302. Intel and the Network Arms Race
  303. Wireless As We Know It Is Dead
  304. Don’t Touch My Mustache, Aruba!
  305. Drowning in the Data of Things
  306. Will Cisco Shine On?
  307. The Tortoise and the Austin Hare
  308. Critical Applications And the WAN
  309. A Voyage of Discover-E
  310. A Stack Full Of It
  311. ONUG Spotlights Shift To Software And Services – Network Computing
  312. Join Tech Field Day at ONUG Fall 2015 in New York City
  313. Open Networking Needs to Be Interchangeable
  314. Tips For Presenting On Video
  315. This WAN Is Your WAN, This WAN Is My WAN
  316. Open Choices In Networking
  317. Hypermyopia In The World Of Networking
  318. NBase-ing Your Wireless Decisions
  319. VFD4 – The email
  320. Time For A Data Diet?
  321. A Bright And Happy 2015 Ahead
  322. Cisco Just Killed The CLI
  323. Riding the SD-WAN Wave
  324. HP Networking – Hitting The Right Notes
  325. Wires Are The Exception
  326. The Atomic Weight of Policy
  327. SDN Use Case: Content Filtering
  328. Why is Lync The Killer SDN Application?
  329. Do We Need To Redefine Open?
  330. Maybe MU-MIMO Matters
  331. 08 – Wireless Field Day 7 Kickoff « On The Fly Wi-Fi
  332. Cisco Live 2014 – Recap
  333. The SDNicorn
  334. Tom Hollingsworth Offers Snazzy Insight on the 2014 SDDC Symposium
  335. Throw More Storage At It
  336. Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
  337. Dear Syslog, regarding NAT & #VFD3 Day 0
  338. The Slippery Slope of Social Sign-In
  339. 2014 – Introductions Are In Order
  340. Write Like The Wind
  341. SDN and Appeal of Abstraction
  342. Should Microsoft Buy Big Switch?
  343. Avaya and the Magic of SPB
  344. HP Networking and the Software Defined Store
  345. SDN 101 at ONUG Academy
  346. Cisco CMX – Marketing Magic? Or Big Brother?
  347. Your Data Center Isn’t Facebook And That’s Just Fine
  348. Know the Process, Not the Tool
  349. The Vision Of A ThousandEyes
  350. A Complicated World Without Wires
  351. SDDC Interview: Tech Field Day’s Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth
  352. Software Defined Data Center: Marketing or Meaty?
  353. Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day
  354. Cisco Live 2013 Wrap Up
  355. Tech Field Day 9
  356. Cisco Live 2013 Tweetup
  357. WhoIS Episode 004: Tom Hollingsworth
  358. Brocade’s Pragmatically Defined Network
  359. Juniper and the Removal of the Human Element
  360. Plexxi and the Case for Affinity
  361. Brocade Defined Networking
  362. Causing A Network Ruckus
  363. Solarwinds – The Right Tool For A New Job
  364. Cisco Borderless Idol
  365. Cisco Data Center Duel
  366. Show 139 – Making Your Way Down The Path To Nirvana
  367. Aerohive Is Switching Things Up
  368. Network Field Day 5
  369. Enterprise Networking’s 10 Ten to Watch List
  370. Juniper MX Series – Review
  371. BYOD vs MDM – Who Pays The Bill?
  372. Cisco To Buy Meraki?
  373. Juniper – Land of Unicorns and Broccoli
  374. Cisco – Borderless Speed Dating
  375. 99 Problems But A Switch Ain’t One
  376. Brocade – Packet Spraying and SDN Integrating
  377. Spirent – Bringing The Tests To You
  378. Opengear – A Box Full Of Awesome
  379. Statseeker – Information Is Ammunition
  380. When Demos Attack
  381. Network Field Day 4
  382. Reality As A Service

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