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Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018

L-R: Max Mortillaro, Roger Lund, Arjan Timmerman, Matthew Leib, David Chapa, Stephen Foskett, Chan Ekanayake, Howard Marks, Paul Stringfellow, Ruairi McBride, Mariusz Kaczorek, Jason Benedicic, Chris Maki, Ray Lucchesi

Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018

October 22–October 24, 2018

#NetAppInsight18

Who: Storage

What: Exclusive, Experience, Extra, NetApp Insight

When: Past

Location: Las Vegas

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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.

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Chan Ekanayake

@ChanEk81

Technology Practice Manager – DC & AWS

Chris Maki

@ChrisMaki

Principal Solutions Architect, CDW Canada

David Chapa

@DavidChapa

Advisor to CxOs, Technology Exec, Market & Product Strategist, World-Class Speaker, Business-Centric IT, #MrRecovery, #Musician

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Jason Benedicic

@JABenedicic

Independent Consultant with a passion for all things technical, currently focusing on Cloud, Automation and DevOps. Member of NetApp A-Team, Cisco Champions and vExpert.

Mariusz Kaczorek

@Settlersoman

IT Architect with passion for Virtualization and Storage Solutions.

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

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

Max Mortillaro

Max Mortillaro is an independent data center consultant specializing in virtualization and storage technologies.

Paul Stringfellow

@TechStringy

Technical Director of UK data management consultancy Gardner Systems. Host of the Tech Interviews podcast. Part of the NetApp A-Team and Veeam Vanguards as well as included on the CRN UK A-List.

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Roger Lund

@RogerLund

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

Ruairi McBride

@McBride_Ruairi

Technical Account Manager – Team Leader at Arrow ECS

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.

Tuesday, Oct 23 14:00-15:00
NetApp HCI Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
Presenters: Gabriel Chapman
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Howard Marks, Mariusz Kaczorek, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Ray Lucchesi, Roger Lund, Ruairi McBride
Wednesday, Oct 24 11:45-12:45
NetApp MAX Data Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
Presenters: Andrew Grimes, Kumar Prabhat, Rodrigo Nascimento, Sharon Azulai
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Howard Marks, Jason Benedicic, Mariusz Kaczorek, Matthew Leib, Max Mortillaro, Paul Stringfellow, Ray Lucchesi, Roger Lund, Ruairi McBride
Wednesday, Oct 24 14:30-15:30
NetApp Data Fabric and Cloud Volumes Presentation at Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
Presenters: Eiki Hrafnsson
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Chan Ekanayake, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Howard Marks, Jason Benedicic, Mariusz Kaczorek, Max Mortillaro, Ray Lucchesi, Roger Lund, Ruairi McBride
All dates and times listed are local time in Las Vegas, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

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


24 Links with Tag #NetAppInsight18

  1. Coverage: NetApp HCI: Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • NetApp
  2. Coverage: The HCI Definition Obsession
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  3. Coverage: NetApp Insight 2018 Product Announcements
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  4. Coverage: MAX Data: Optimising Application Performance With SCM
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  5. Coverage: NetApp buys into Kubernetes Orchestration with StackPointCloud
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  6. Coverage: NetApp Data Fabric: A la Hybrid Cloud! – An update from NetApp Insight 2018
    • Chan Ekanayake
    • NetApp
  7. Coverage: Live at VMworld Europe 2018: An Update on VMware Strategy and Vision, or VMware is Cool Again
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp, VMware by Broadcom
  8. Coverage: 73: GreyBeards talk HCI with Gabriel Chapman, Sr. Mgr. Cloud Infrastructure NetApp
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  9. Coverage: 75: GreyBeards talk persistent memory IO with Andy Grimes, Principal Technologist, NetApp
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • NetApp
  10. Coverage: NetApp: HCI Stands For “Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure”
    • Stephen Foskett
    • NetApp
  11. Coverage: NetApp MAX Data: The Persistence of Memory, Revisited
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp
  12. Coverage: NetApp Insight: Fabrics, Volumes, Insights & more
    • David Chapa
    • NetApp
  13. Coverage: What is HCI and really, does it matter?
    • Matthew Leib
    • NetApp
  14. Coverage: NetApp’s Data Fabric Gets Real
    • Stephen Foskett
    • NetApp
  15. Coverage: Disaggregation or hyperconvergence?
    • Tech Field Day 17
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • DriveScale, NetApp
  16. Coverage: NetApp Data Fabric: putting in practice the “Theory of Everything” for Data and Storage
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp
  17. Coverage: NetApp’s Max Data at #NetAppInsight and #TFDx
    • Matthew Leib
    • NetApp
  18. Coverage: NetApp HCI Update
    • Chris Maki
    • NetApp
  19. Coverage: NETAPP INSIGHT 2018 – TFDX- Data Fabric 2.0
    • Roger Lund
    • NetApp
  20. Coverage: NETAPP INSIGHT 2018 – TFDX- MAX Data
    • Roger Lund
    • NetApp
  21. Coverage: Netapp Insight 2018 – TFDx- HCI Revealed! Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud?
    • Roger Lund
    • NetApp
  22. Coverage: NetApp Insight 2018 – Hello Stranger, We Meet Again
    • Storage Field Day 13
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp
  23. Coverage: NetApp Provides Insights for Women in Tech
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • NetApp
  24. Coverage: NetApp Speaks Volumes
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • NetApp

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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