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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015 August 31–3, 2015
Who: Virtualization
What: Extra, VMworld
When: Past
Where: San Francisco

For Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015, we had three different delegate panels, one per day.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday
  • Presenting Companies
    • DataGravity
    • Platform9
    • Cirba
    • Velostrata
  • Delegate Panel
    • Amit Panchal
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • James Green
    • Larry Smith
    • Marco Broeken
    • Mark May
    • Matthew Leib
    • Roger Lund
    • Scott D. Lowe
  • Presenting Companies
    • Primary Data
    • ClearSky Data
    • SanDisk
    • Reduxio
  • Delegate Panel
    • David Davis
    • Howard Marks
    • Joep Piscaer
    • Justin Warren
    • Phoummala Schmitt
    • Rick Schlander
    • Shane Williford
    • Stephen Beaver
    • Theresa Miller
  • Presenting Companies
    • Violin Memory
    • Datto
  • Special Event
    • Luminus Networks
  • Delegate Panel
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Amy Manley
    • Andrew Mauro
    • Chris Evans
    • Christopher Kusek
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Keith Townsend
    • Marco Broeken
    • Theresa Miller

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Delegates

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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Trainer, Writer, Consultant, Geek. From New Zealand.

Amit Panchal

@AmitPanchal76

Technical IT Manager and blogger at apanchal.com.

Amy Manley

@WyrdGirl

12 years in IT, vExpert and an automation junkie

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Chris M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

Technology Evangelist, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author

David Davis

@DavidMDavis

David Davis is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer covering datacenter technologies.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

Independent analyst, blogger, event organizer, weekend sailor, gelato lover, always on a diet.

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

James Green

@JDGreen

James is Partner & Content Czar at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

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

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies.

Larry Smith

@MrLESmithJr

Senior DevOps Engineer/Lead Automation Architect for Business Technology Architects

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl

Mark May

@CincyStorage

Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

Phoummala Schmitt

@PhoummalaSchmit

Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

Roger Lund

@RogerLund

Roger evangelizes virtualization by night, and is a Solutions Architect at Deltaware Data Solutions during the day.

Scott D. Lowe

@OtherScottLowe

Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.

Shane Williford

@coolsport00

Stephen Beaver

@SBeaver

Stephen Beaver is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration.

Theresa Miller

@24x7ITConnect

Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), MBA and Microsoft Exchange geek. Enjoying blogging and technical speaking.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

August 31, 2015 12:00-13:00 Data Gravity Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, James Green, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May, Matthew Leib, Roger Lund
August 31, 2015 13:30-14:30 Platform9 Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May, Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
August 31, 2015 15:00-16:00 Cirba Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, James Green, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May, Matthew Leib, Roger Lund
August 31, 2015 16:30-17:30 Velostrata Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Amit Panchal, Enrico Signoretti, Larry Smith, Marco Broeken, Mark May, Matthew Leib, Roger Lund, Scott D. Lowe
September 1, 2015 12:30-13:30 Primary Data Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 1, 2015 14:00-15:00 ClearSky Data Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 1, 2015 15:30-16:30 SanDisk Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Phoummala Schmitt, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 1, 2015 17:00-18:00 Reduxio Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: David Davis, Howard Marks, Joep Piscaer, Justin Warren, Rick Schlander, Shane Williford, Stephen Beaver, Theresa Miller
September 2, 2015 13:00-14:00 Violin Memory Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Chris Evans, Christopher Kusek, Enrico Signoretti, Keith Townsend, Marco Broeken, Theresa Miller
September 2, 2015 14:30-15:30 Datto Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015
Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Andrew Mauro, Chris Evans, Christopher Kusek, Enrico Signoretti, Keith Townsend, Marco Broeken, Theresa Miller
September 2, 2015 16:30-18:00 The Future of Monitoring Networks: Luminus / Tech Field Day Fireside Chat at VMworld
Delegate Panel: N/A

Event Staff

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd


Links with Tag #EVMWU15

Links with Tag #EVMWU15

  1. What Next for Violin Systems?
    • Storage Field Day 9
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  2. Future Storage, Flash, and Cloud?
    • Storage Field Day 11
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Avere Systems, ClearSky Data
  3. Primary Data – One year after
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Primary Data
  4. The Current Status: ClearSky Data
    • Theresa Miller
    • ClearSky Data
  5. ClearSky Data Raise $27 Million For Cloud Storage Service
    • Justin Warren
    • ClearSky Data
  6. A brand new Violin Memory
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Violin Memory
  7. Data Analytics is the new hotness in storage arrays
    • Mark May
    • DataGravity
  8. Analytics, the key to (storage) happiness
    • Storage Field Day 8
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • DataGravity, Nimble Storage
  9. Total Data Protection with Datto
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Datto
  10. Kill it with fire, it is a disaster.
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Datto
  11. VMworld 2015 In Review
    • James Green
    • DataGravity
  12. Reduxio Presentation at VMworld 2015
    • Rick Schlander
    • Reduxio
  13. Tech Field Day Briefing with Primary Data
    • Stephen Beaver
    • Primary Data
  14. VMworld US 2015 Report
    • Andrea Mauro
  15. Do we need specialized design for Flash storage?
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Violin Memory
  16. Compute in the cloud and storage on premises? Are you serious?
    • Amit Panchal
    • Velostrata
  17. Hmm, Enterprise Grade Cloud-based Storage?
    • Theresa Miller
    • ClearSky Data
  18. Standard SSDs or Custom NAND Modules?
    • Chris M Evans
    • Violin Memory
  19. OpenStack made simple (finally!)
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Platform9 Systems
  20. Storage Dominates VMworld Once Again
    • Justin Warren
    • ClearSky Data, Primary Data, Reduxio
  21. VMworld US 2015: Day 4 Recap
    • Bob Plankers
    • SanDisk
  22. Velostrata Exits Stealth Mode With $14 million Series A
    • Justin Warren
    • Velostrata
  23. Vendor Shortlist for VMworld 2015
    • Virtualization Field Day 5
    • Michael Stump
    • PernixData, SolarWinds
  24. Back on track! VMworld, TFDx and TECHunplugged
    • Enrico Signoretti
  25. Tech Field Day Extra Preview – VMworld US
    • Amit Panchal
    • Cirba, DataGravity, Platform9 Systems, Velostrata
  26. I Miss the Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer or Speaking at The Flash Memory Summit and VMworld
    • Howard Marks
  27. Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2015
    • Andrea Mauro

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at [email protected] or call +1(508)451-9532.


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