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Brocade Virtual Symposium 2012

Brocade Virtual Symposium 2012

May 2, 2012

#BVS1

Who: Networking

What: Brocade, Exclusive

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

Packet Pushers and Tech Field Day hosted a Virtual Symposium focused on Ethernet fabrics. We were joined by Chip Copper, Principal Engineer for our sponsor, Brocade, as well as many Networking Field Day 3 delegates.

Brocade Virtual Symposium Introduction from Stephen Foskett on Vimeo.

About the Organizers

Tech Field Day is a regular event that brings together vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public.

Packet Pushers is a podcast and website focussed on data networking. The weekly podcast reaches a highly technical audience of 3500 network engineers and architects.



Presenting Sponsor

Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Brandon Carroll

@BrandonCarroll

Consulting System Engineer, Instructor, Blogger, and Technology Fan. CCIE #23837.

Chris Marget

@ChrisMarget

Chris is an independent network consultant, recovering UNIX sysadmin and protocol aficionado

Derick Winkworth

@SDNToad

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Greg Ferro

@EtherealMind

Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.

Ivan Pepelnjak

@IOSHints

Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354 Emeritus, is a network architect and independent blogger at ipSpace.net AG.

Josh O’Brien

@JoshOBrien77

Josh has worked in the industry for 14 years and is now serving as CTO in the Telemedicine sector.

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.

Tony Bourke

@TBourke

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, May 2 13:00-15:00 Brocade Virtual Symposium 2012
Presenters: Chip Copper, Greg Ferro, Stephen Foskett
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Greg Ferro

@EtherealMind

Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


1 Links with Tag #BVS1

  1. Coverage: ◎ Brocade’s Data Centre Ethernet Strategy
    • Greg Ferro
    • Brocade

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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