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Tech Field Day 18 Austin

Chris Grundemann, Karen Lopez, Raff Poltronieri, Jody Lemoine, Jeffrey Powers, Stephen Foskett, Keiran Shelden, Darrel Clute, Marina Ferreira, Glenn Dekhayser, Justin Warren, Ed Horley, Nate Avery, Alicia Blessing

Tech Field Day 18 Austin

February 7–February 8, 2019

#TFD18

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Austin

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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.

Chris Grundemann

@ChrisGrundemann

Independent advisor, analyst, and consultant. Specializing in internet routing, network architecture, and automation.

Darrel Clute

@DarrelClute

IT Infrastructure Engineer and Architect with a strong emphasis on networking and UNIX systems.

Ed Horley

@EHorley

20 years in tech, “Crazy IPv6 dude”, co-chair California IPv6 Task Force, author (Apress and Pluralsight), blogger and occasional speaker

Glenn Dekhayser

@GDekhayser

Technologist with 30+ years working with Enterprise Storage and Data Management, more recently working with global organizations on AI Infrastructure as well. Author of the Authoritative Core architectural design pattern.

Jeffrey Powers

@Geekazine

Consumer, Enterprise, Music Technologist. Podcaster and Youtuber. Co-founder of Build Day Live.

Jody Lemoine

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

Justin Warren

@JPWarren

Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Keiran Shelden

@Keiran_Shelden

Keiran is a System Engineer who loves to working with the full stack from compute to storage and all things between.

Marina Ferreira

@_MarinaLF

3xCCIE, VCP6-NV, SDN enthusiast, reader, and occasional writer. Chasing diversity and bookmarking the outside. :wq!

Nate Avery

@Nathaniel_Avery

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

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.

Thursday, Feb 7 9:30 - 11:30
Datera Presents at Tech Field Day 18
Presenters: Bill Borsari, Hal Woods, Nic Bellinger, Shailesh Mittal
Thursday, Feb 7 12:30 - 14:30
NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 18
Presenters: Marty Mayer, Shankar Pasupathy, Sudip Hore
Thursday, Feb 7 15:30 - 17:30
VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 18
Friday, Feb 8 09:00-11:00
SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 18
Friday, Feb 8 13:00-14:00 Ignite Tech Field Day 18
Presenter: Ed Horley, Jeffrey Powers, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Ken Nalbone
Friday, Feb 8 14:30-15:30 On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast Recording at Tech Field Day 18
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
Panelists: Chris Grundemann, Ed Horley, Glenn Dekhayser, Jeffrey Powers, Jody Lemoine, Karen Lopez, Marina Ferreira, Nate Avery, Patrick Hubbard
All dates and times listed are local time in Austin, US/Central.

Event Staff

Ken Nalbone

@KenNalbone

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

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


25 Links with Tag #TFD18

  1. Coverage: SolarWinds Aims to Connect the Data Dots
    • Stephen Foskett
    • SolarWinds
  2. Coverage: Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
    • Storage Field Day 18
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Datera
  3. Coverage: NetApp Active IQ Adds Machine Learning to Autosupport
    • Justin Warren
    • NetApp
  4. Coverage: Datera Shows the Value of Data in Use
    • Justin Warren
    • Datera
  5. Coverage: Monitoring Customer Data With Machine Learning
    • Justin Warren
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp
  6. Coverage: NetApp Active IQ – A Logical Next Step in Maintenance
    • Nate Avery
    • NetApp
  7. Coverage: Vlog4 TFD
    • Keiran Shelden
  8. Coverage: Datera and Modern Data Center
    • Marina Ferreira
    • Datera
  9. Coverage: SolarWinds Takes on Security
    • Nate Avery
    • SolarWinds
  10. Coverage: Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!
    • Ken Nalbone
    • VMware by Broadcom
  11. Coverage: Disclosure: Tech Field Day 18
    • Justin Warren
  12. Coverage: Tech Field Day 18 – Day 2 With SolarWinds
    • Ed Horley
    • SolarWinds
  13. Coverage: SolarWinds – Moving Monitoring in the Right Direction
    • Nate Avery
    • SolarWinds
  14. Coverage: TechField Day 18 – Day 1 With Datera, NetApp and VMware
    • Ed Horley
    • Datera, NetApp, VMware by Broadcom
  15. Coverage: Tech Field Days
    • Marina Ferreira
  16. Coverage: NetApp to Showcase Active IQ at Tech Field Day 18
    • NetApp
  17. Coverage: TFD18 Prep: VMware
    • Justin Warren
    • VMware by Broadcom
  18. Coverage: VMware vSAN – Join Us at Tech Field Day 18!
    • VMware by Broadcom
  19. Coverage: TFD18 Prep: Datera
    • Justin Warren
    • Datera
  20. Coverage: TFD18 Prep: NetApp
    • Justin Warren
    • NetApp
  21. Coverage: Tech Field Day 18 Here we come!
    • Keiran Shelden
  22. Coverage: TFD18 Prep: Solarwinds
    • Justin Warren
    • SolarWinds
  23. Coverage: Tech Field Day Delegate – Part Deux
    • Nate Avery
  24. Coverage: Join us at Tech Field Day 18
    • VMware by Broadcom
  25. Coverage: Tech Field Day 18 is Feb 6-8 2019 – Look out Austin!
    • Ed Horley

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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