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Tech Field Day 17

Tech Field Day 17
October 17–19, 2018
#TFD17
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.

Adam Fisher

@BonzoVT

Technical Solutions Architect @ WWT | www.virtualbonzo.com | @bonzovt on Twitter

Chan Ekanayake

@ChanEk81

Technology Practice Manager – DC & AWS

Chin-Fah Heoh

@StorageGaga

Passionate storage technology enthusiast who enjoys the learning as much as the sharing.

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

An IT generalist with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple technology generations at different layers in the IT organisation.

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Gabe Maentz

@GMaentz

Consultant, Dad of 4, Marquette alum, Life-Long Learner, vExpert, vBrisket Founder

Karel Novak

@NovakkKarel

Senior Virtual Infrastructure Engineer at ArrowECS Czech Republic

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Mariusz Kaczorek

@Settlersoman

IT Architect with passion for Virtualization and Storage Solutions.

Yusuf Emre Ozensoy

@vmugtr

Turkey VMUG Leader, vExpert, VCP, BMW R 1200 GS lover, world traveller , CMAS scuba diver

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, Oct 17 13:00-15:00
Hammerspace Presents at Tech Field Day 17
Presenters: David Flynn, Douglas Fallstrom
Thursday, Oct 18 8:00-10:00
Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 17
Thursday, Oct 18 11:00-13:00
Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 17
Thursday, Oct 18 15:00-17:00
Oracle OCI Presents at Tech Field Day 17
Presenters: Abhiram Annangi, Adeel Amin, Karan Batta, Leo Leung
Friday, Oct 19 10:30-12:30
DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 17
Presenters: Brian Pawlowski, Chris Unkel, Gene Banman, Tom Lyon
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, 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 Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.


Links with Tag #TFD17

  1. Solving Data Problems – David Flynn – Ep 100
    • Paul Stringfellow
    • Hammerspace
  2. Solving Data Problems With Hammerspace
    • Paul Stringfellow
    • Hammerspace
  3. Voices in Data Storage – Episode 3: A Conversation with Leo Leung of Oracle
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Oracle
  4. BiB 061: Understanding DriveScale Composer Architecture
    • Ethan Banks
    • DriveScale, Packet Pushers
  5. Oracle Cloud with SLA?
    • Yusuf Emre Ozensoy
    • Oracle
  6. BiB 060: Focus On Your Data & Not Where It’s Stored With HammerSpace
    • Ethan Banks
    • Hammerspace, Packet Pushers
  7. BiB 059: Recover From Cyber Attacks & Ransomware With Dell EMC
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers
  8. Disaster Recovery and Cyber Attacks
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Index Engines
  9. BiB 057: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Wants Your Workloads
    • Ethan Banks
    • Oracle, Packet Pushers
  10. Oracle Cloud
    • Erik Ableson
    • Oracle
  11. Hammerspace at Tech Field Day 17
    • Erik Ableson
    • Hammerspace
  12. Hammerspace – Unstructured Data Anywhere
    • Adam Fisher
    • Hammerspace
  13. My First Tech Field Day
    • Yusuf Emre Ozensoy
    • Cisco, DriveScale, Hammerspace, Oracle
  14. Composable Infrastructure is presented at Tech Field Day 17 by DriveScale
    • DriveScale
  15. Cisco ACI Cloud APIC: Fast, Cheap, Good. You Can’t Have All Three.
    • Ethan Banks
    • Cisco, Packet Pushers
  16. Protection for your backup data from Dell EMC Cyber Recovery
    • Adam Fisher
    • Dell EMC
  17. Disaggregation or hyperconvergence?
    • Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • DriveScale, NetApp
  18. Tech Field Day 17
    • Adam Fisher
    • Tech Field Day
  19. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to prove skeptics wrong
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Oracle
  20. Oracle Cloud, Better Than You Might Think
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Oracle
  21. The Network is Still the Computer
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • DriveScale
  22. The Dell EMC Data Bunker
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Dell EMC
  23. Hammering Next Gen Hybrid Clouds
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • Hammerspace
  24. My first Tech Field Day
    • Chin-Fah Heoh
    • DriveScale, Hammerspace
  25. Tech Field Day 17 Preview
    • Karel Novak
  26. Tech Field Day 17
    • Chan Ekanayake

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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