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Tech Field Day 12

L-R: Eric Shanks, Rich Stroffolino, Ethan Banks, Megan Robinette, Stephen Foskett, Tim Miller, Mike Preston, Alex Galbraith, Jon Hildebrand, Jody Lemoine, Margo Harmon, Claire Chaplais, Josh De Jong, Tom Hollingsworth, Tim Smith, John White, Matt Crape, James Green

Tech Field Day 12

November 15–November 16, 2016

#TFD12

Who: Tech

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.

Alex Galbraith

@AlexGalbraith

Solutions Architect in the UK, podcaster and independent blogger at www.tekhead.it. At 6’7″ tall, obviously a ‘massive’ geek.

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

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.

Jody Lemoine

Network Greasemonkey, Matrix Anarchitect, Packet Macrame Specialist, Virtual Pneumatic Tube Transport Designer and Connectivity Nerfherder. Independent consultant. CCIE 41436, MTCRE, MTCINE

John White

@JohnA_White

Dad, technology lover, softball players, car guy, cloud guy, product strategy executive at Expedient.

Jon Hildebrand

@SnoopJ123

Virtualization/Data Center/Cloud/Orchestration/Automation Enthusiast

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Matt Crape

@MattThatITGuy

An IT Generalist with a passion for virtualization, storage, data protection, and helping others.

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh!

Tim Miller

@BroadcastStorm

Senior IT Engineer that loves all things networking and HPC.

Tim Smith

@TSmith_co

Data Center Architect building and implementing VMware and supporting solutions.

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, Nov 15 9:00 - 11:00 Cohesity Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Tuesday, Nov 15 13:00 - 14:00 Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast Recording
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
Tuesday, Nov 15 14:00 - 16:00 StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Tuesday, Nov 15 16:30 - 18:30 Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 8:00 - 10:00 Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 11:00 - 13:00 DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 14:00 - 16:00 Rubrik Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 16:30 - 18:30 Docker Presents at Tech Field Day 12
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Megan Robinette

@MegRobinette

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


73 Links with Tag #TFD12

  1. Coverage: Time to write Chapter 2
    • Cloud Field Day 3, Virtualization Field Day 5
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  2. Coverage: DriveScale Releases Customer-Driven Advancements in Fall Edition of its SCI Platform
    • James Green
    • DriveScale
  3. Coverage: DriveScale Now Supports Kubernetes and Docker
    • James Green
    • DriveScale
  4. Coverage: Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Docker
  5. Coverage: New Career Adventure — Joined Rubrik
    • Rebecca Fitzhugh
    • Rubrik
  6. Coverage: Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Rubrik
  7. Coverage: Building Data Storage With Containers
    • Storage Field Day 11
    • Chris M Evans
    • Docker, Ondat, Portworx, Scality
  8. Coverage: What Capabilities are Needed for a Startup Storage Company?
    • Eric Shanks
    • Ondat
  9. Coverage: Backups suck, rubrik does not
    • John White
    • Rubrik
  10. Coverage: 2016 between container, hyper-convergence, cloud and bigdata
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2016
    • Lino Telera
    • Docker, VMware by Broadcom
  11. Coverage: Cohesity – a secondary storage leader in the making?
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2016
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cohesity
  12. Coverage: Here’s to 2016 (A year in the life…)
    • Tech Field Day 11, Virtualization Field Day 6
    • Jon Hildebrand
    • Tech Field Day
  13. Coverage: 2016 – How did I do?
    • Matt Crape
    • Tech Field Day
  14. Coverage: Docker?  On Windows?  Yep!
    • Jon Hildebrand
    • Docker
  15. Coverage: Secondary Storage is Cohesity’s Primary Goal
    • Tim Smith
    • Cohesity
  16. Coverage: Cohesity – DataPlatform in the Cloud
    • Josh De Jong
    • Cohesity
  17. Coverage: Pets, Cattle and Cabbage, oh my! DriveScale Brings Scale-Out to Tech Field Day 12
    • DriveScale
  18. Coverage: Time to bring back the middleman
    • Tim Smith
    • DriveScale
  19. Coverage: Container Hardening with Docker Bench for Security
    • James Green
    • Docker
  20. Coverage: Is Everything Pay-as-You-Go?
    • Eric Shanks
    • Igneous Systems
  21. Coverage: Drive and Rack Scale Storage Architectures
    • James Green
    • DriveScale, Igneous Systems
  22. Coverage: Get all the Docker talks from Tech Field Day 12
    • Docker
  23. Coverage: Docker is the New Twitter
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Docker, Ondat
  24. Coverage: DriveScale is a new kid on the block with a very seasoned past
    • John White
    • DriveScale
  25. Coverage: Cloud Storage? In my DC? Yes please! Enter Igneous
    • John White
    • Igneous Systems
  26. Coverage: Decouple Disks and Compute with DriveScale
    • Eric Shanks
    • DriveScale
  27. Coverage: Efficient Resource Use Takes Interesting Turn at Scale
    • Tim Miller
    • DriveScale
  28. Coverage: Transform and Scale Out with Isilon
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Dell EMC
  29. Coverage: The Atlas File System – The foundation of the Rubrik Platform
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  30. Coverage: Forward Thinking Backups
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Rubrik
  31. Coverage: The Igneous Synthesis
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Igneous Systems
  32. Coverage: Scale-Out. Distributed. Whatever the Name, it’s the Future of Computing
    • Alex Galbraith
    • Igneous Systems
  33. Coverage: Scale-Out Storage Through Disaggregation With DriveScale
    • Ethan Banks
    • DriveScale, Packet Pushers
  34. Coverage: First Look at Cohesity Cloud Edition
    • Matt Crape
    • Cohesity
  35. Coverage: Igneous – On Premises, Cloud Managed, Scale-Out Storage
    • Ethan Banks
    • Igneous Systems, Packet Pushers
  36. Coverage: On-prem Cloud Storage with Igneous Systems
    • Matt Crape
    • Igneous Systems
  37. Coverage: Scaling storage with an army of ARM!
    • Mike Preston
    • Igneous Systems
  38. Coverage: The Container Storage Persistence Challenge
    • James Green
    • Ondat, Portworx
  39. Coverage: Improving Stateful Container Storage with StorageOS
    • Ethan Banks
    • Ondat, Packet Pushers
  40. Coverage: The Silent Threat of Dark Data
    • James Green
    • Cohesity
  41. Coverage: A VMware guy’s perspective on containers
    • Mike Preston
    • Docker
  42. Coverage: DriveScale Gives You Ethernet With a Side of Storage
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • DriveScale
  43. Coverage: SPEP03 – TFD12 | Open TechCast
    • Alex Galbraith, Matt Crape, Mike Preston, Stephen Foskett
  44. Coverage: Friday Shorts – VMware, Veeam, Docker and Community
    • Mike Preston
  45. Coverage: The struggles of travelling
    • Matt Crape
    • Tech Field Day
  46. Coverage: Throw Your Isilon in the Data Lake
    • Eric Shanks
    • Dell EMC
  47. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Dell EMC
    • Matt Crape
    • Dell EMC
  48. Coverage: Cohesity Provides All of Your Secondary Storage Needs
    • Eric Shanks
    • Cohesity
  49. Coverage: Cohesity Presents at Tech Field Day 12
    • Cohesity
  50. Coverage: Rubrik – A Refreshing Approach to Backups
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2016
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Rubrik
  51. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: StorageOS
    • Matt Crape
    • Ondat
  52. Coverage: DellEMC will make it’s first appearance at a Field Day event since merger!
    • Mike Preston
    • Dell, Dell EMC
  53. News: Tech Field Day Events 2017
    • Networking Field Day Exclusive with Nokia, Tech Field Day 10, Tech Field Day 11, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2025, Tech Field Day Extra at DockerCon17, Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE Kansas City 2024
    • Arista Networks, Avere Systems, Caringo, Cisco, Cisco Datacenter, CloudPhysics, DataGravity, Dell, Diablo Technologies, Docker, Druva, EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Igneous Systems, Infinio, Intel, NEC Networking, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Nutanix, Pure Storage, SanDisk, SolarWinds, Tech Field Day, VMware by Broadcom
  54. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: DriveScale
    • Matt Crape
    • DriveScale
  55. Coverage: Cohesity bringing secondary storage to Tech Field Day
    • Mike Preston
    • Cohesity
  56. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Docker
    • Matt Crape
    • Docker
  57. Coverage: Intel to take the stage at Tech Field Day!
    • Mike Preston
    • Intel
  58. Coverage: Docker to make 4th Field Day appearance!
    • Mike Preston
    • Docker
  59. Coverage: StorageOS to Highlight Persistent Container Storage at CloudNativeCon and Tech Field Day Events
    • Ondat
  60. Coverage: Rubrik to talk cloud data management at Tech Field Day
    • Mike Preston
    • Rubrik
  61. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12
    • John White
  62. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Igneous Systems
    • Matt Crape
    • Igneous Systems
  63. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Rubrik
    • Matt Crape
    • Rubrik
  64. Coverage: DriveScale set to make first ever Tech Field Day appearance!
    • Mike Preston
    • DriveScale
  65. Coverage: Igneous bringing the cloud to you at Tech Field Day
    • Mike Preston
    • Igneous Systems
  66. Coverage: TFD 12 Primer: Cohesity
    • Matt Crape
    • Cohesity
  67. Coverage: StorageOS to take the stage at Tech Field Day 12
    • Mike Preston
    • Ondat
  68. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 (TFD12) – Preview
    • Alex Galbraith
  69. Coverage: Startup Radar: Igneous Systems Blends On-Prem Hyperconvergence With Cloud Management
    • Drew Conry-Murray
    • Igneous Systems, Packet Pushers
  70. Coverage: Well That Was Unexpected …
    • Matt Crape
    • Tech Field Day
  71. Coverage: My Take on #NFD12 Heading Into #TFD12 and #NFD13
    • Networking Field Day 12, Networking Field Day 13
    • Tim Miller
    • Tech Field Day
  72. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 – Goin’ back to Cali!
    • Mike Preston
  73. Coverage: What’s In A Name?
    • Tech Field Day 10, Tech Field Day 11
    • Stephen Foskett

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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