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Cloud Field Day 4

Cloud Field Day 4 delegates (L-R): Pietro Piutti, Ather Beg, Dukagjin Maloku, Nick Janetakis, Keith Ward, Raff Poltronieri, Nate Avery, Stephen Foskett, Liselotte Foverskov, Ken Nalbone, Greg Stuart, Joep Piscaer

Cloud Field Day 4

August 8–August 10, 2018

#CFD4

Who: Cloud

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Ather Beg

@AtherBeg

Enterprise Solutions Architect @Rackspace | VCIX6/VCAP5-DCD/DCA | AWS SA Pro | Tech Enthusiast | Blogger | @OpenTechCast Host | #vExpert x9, #Cloud, #NSX, #HCX

Dukagjin Maloku

@DugiDM

Senior Cloud Engineer with strong focus on Cloud stuff

Greg Stuart

@vDestination

IT Consultant specializing in virtualization technologies in both the private and public sector.

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

Founder of TLA Tech, a tech marketing firm focusing on cloud-native. Co-hosts TheCUBE sometimes. Blogs at VirtualLifestyle.nl

Keith Ward

@KeithWardWrite

Keith Ward is a veteran technology journalist covering the IT space for over 17 years.

Ken Nalbone

@KenNalbone

Specialist Engineer. Tech Community Leader. Loves to geek out about tech and food!

Liselotte Foverskov

@LFoverskov

Technical content, Writing, Podcast and videos via Textrovert.VMUG Leader in Denmark, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard and Psychotherapist

Nate Avery

@Nathaniel_Avery

Systems Engineer with 20 years of experience designing, planning, and implementing complex systems integrating custom-built and COTS applications

Nick Janetakis

@NickJanetakis

Full stack developer, SRE, writer, video tutorial creator and podcast host who is focused on web development and deployment topics.

Pietro Piutti

@Stingray92

50% Analog, 50% Digital Systems Engineer

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

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, Aug 8 10:00 - 12:00
SoftNAS Presents at Cloud Field Day 4
Wednesday, Aug 8 14:00 - 15:00
Aviatrix Systems Presents at Cloud Field Day 4
Thursday, Aug 9 10:00 - 12:00
LightStep Presents at Cloud Field Day 4
Friday, Aug 10 8:00 - 10:00
Cohesity Presents at Cloud Field Day 4
Presenters: Aaron Delp, Adai Arumugum, Dayanand Sharma, Jon Hildebrand, Rawlinson Rivera, Sai Mukundan, Sameer Nori
Friday, Aug 10 11:00 - 13:00
Veritas Presents at Cloud Field Day 4
Presenters: Clifford Barcliff
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

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.


36 Links with Tag #CFD4

  1. Coverage: Veritas Resilency Platform (VRP)
    • Mariusz Kaczorek
    • Veritas
  2. Coverage: Tracing Down a Root Cause With LightStep Tracing
    • Ken Nalbone
    • Lightstep
  3. Coverage: Cohesity Technology Update – Helios
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Cohesity
  4. Coverage: Storage is not just a bunch of disks, said SoftNAS
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • SoftNAS
  5. Coverage: A Matter of Perspective
    • Mobility Field Day 3, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2018, Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Arista Networks, Aviatrix Systems
  6. Coverage: Cohesity – One Software Platform for Multiple Cloud Use Cases
    • Dukagjin Maloku
    • Cohesity
  7. Coverage: Dataset life cycle: Multi-cloud at Cohesity
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Cohesity
  8. Coverage: LightStep: application performance management for the new stack
    • Joep Piscaer
    • Lightstep
  9. Coverage: Cohesity at #CFD4 – Secondary Storage is now Cloud Enabled
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Cohesity
  10. Coverage: Cohesity: Much More than Hyperconverged Secondary Storage
    • Ken Nalbone
    • Cohesity
  11. Coverage: Cohesity – Harnessing the Power of Data
    • Ather Beg
    • Cohesity
  12. Coverage: Cloud Field Day 4: Cohesity Wows Delegates (and Twitter!) with Cloud Demos
    • Cohesity
  13. Coverage: Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
    • Nick Janetakis
    • Lightstep
  14. Coverage: EP14:- A chat bout #CFD4, news and what to look forward to
    • Ather Beg
    • Aviatrix Systems, Cohesity, Lightstep
  15. Coverage: Aviatrix – Cloud Networking Made Easy
    • Ather Beg
    • Aviatrix Systems
  16. Coverage: Aviatrix Simplifies Public Cloud Networking
    • Keith Ward
    • Aviatrix Systems
  17. Coverage: Aviatrix, the Cloud Networking solution designed around real-life use cases
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Aviatrix Systems
  18. Coverage: SoftNAS Cloud: Cloud Unlocker Storage?
    • Ather Beg
    • SoftNAS
  19. Coverage: Move Your Data into the Cloud NOW with SoftNAS
    • Ken Nalbone
    • SoftNAS
  20. Coverage: Data Platform: the Cohesity solution to manage and optimize the fruition of enterprise data
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Cohesity
  21. Coverage: First Impressions and Hands On With Cohesity
    • Cohesity
  22. Coverage: How SoftNAS Is Like the U.S. Marines
    • Keith Ward
    • SoftNAS
  23. Coverage: Tech Field Day – An Amazing Experience
    • Ather Beg
    • Tech Field Day
  24. Coverage: Aviatrix Systems – Simplicity for Cloud Networking
    • Liselotte Foverskov
    • Aviatrix Systems
  25. Coverage: Addressing Public Cloud Storage Hurdles w/ SoftNAS
    • Nate Avery
    • SoftNAS
  26. Coverage: The Cargo Cult of Google Tools
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Lightstep
  27. Coverage: Tech Field Day about Cloud … CFD4
    • Dukagjin Maloku
  28. Coverage: Flipping The Script – From Delegate to Presenter
    • Jon Hildebrand
    • Cohesity
  29. Coverage: Coming Back to Cloud Field Day for the Second Time
    • Nick Janetakis
    • On-Premise IT
  30. Coverage: Cloud Field Day 4 – Thoughts from a first time delegate
    • Liselotte Foverskov
    • Aviatrix Systems, Docker
  31. Coverage: Troubleshooting – Can’t Login to SoftNAS Appliance (Azure) – “Incorrect Username/Password”
    • Nate Avery
    • SoftNAS
  32. Coverage: SoftNAS helps solve legacy app and data inertia
    • Joep Piscaer
    • SoftNAS
  33. Coverage: Full vs. Partial Coverage of Your Data
    • Veritas
  34. Coverage: Up in the Air
    • Nate Avery
  35. Coverage: Cloud Field Day 4 (#CFD4) : A Heads-Up
    • Ather Beg
    • Aviatrix Systems, Cohesity, Lightstep, SoftNAS, Veritas
  36. Coverage: It’s Cloud Field Day Week!
    • Greg Stuart

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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