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Tech Field Day 20

L-R: Ben Gage, Alissa Nivens, John Herbert, Gina Rosenthal, Jordan Martin, Stephen Foskett, Jon Klaus, Max Mortillaro, Chris Evans, Greg Ferro, Ethan Banks, Enrico Signoretti, Joep Piscaer, Stephanie Ihezukwu

Tech Field Day 20

November 13–November 15, 2019

#TFD20

Who: Tech, Virtualization

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

Tech Field Day 20

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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 M Evans

@ChrisMEvans

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

Enrico Signoretti

@ESignoretti

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

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

Network architect, CCIE, podcaster & blogger.

Gina Rosenthal

Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect.

Greg Ferro

@EtherealMind

Greg is a freelance Network Architect and Engineer, host of Packet Pushers Podcast and semi-professional writer.

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

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

John Herbert

@MrTugs

CCIE #6727 Emeritus, technology afficionado, scripter, nerd. What’s not to love?

Jon Klaus

@JonKlaus

Storage architect gone project manager, working for a MSP in the south of the Netherlands.

Jordan Martin

@BCJordo

Principal Architect at WWT (CCIE# 43772)

Max Mortillaro

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

Stephanie Ihezukwu

@StephAndSec

Information Security Analyst that enjoys all things Security, technology and Psychology.

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, Nov 13 8:30-9:30
SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Sacha Dawes
Wednesday, Nov 13 10:00-12:00
Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Anthony Spiteri, Michael Cade, Rick Vanover
Wednesday, Nov 13 13:45-15:45
Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Brandon Carroll, Dante Malagrino, Romain Jourdan, Vincent Berk
Wednesday, Nov 13 16:30-18:00
Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Dave Demlow, Mike Lyon, Phil White
Thursday, Nov 14 8:00-10:00
Forescout Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Jordy Davis, Neal Lucier, Pedro Abreu, Tom Dolan
Thursday, Nov 14 11:00-14:30
NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Nick Howell, Santosh Rao, Steven Pruchniewski
Thursday, Nov 14 15:30-17:30
BlueCat Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Chris Riviere, Kevin Wilson, Noel Reynolds, Petrisa Pecnik
Friday, Nov 15 8:00-10:00
Aruba Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Craig Mills, Partha Narasimhan, Scott Koster, Vishwas Shetiya, William Choe
Friday, Nov 15 11:30-12:30
Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Jason Lackey, Philip Trainor
Friday, Nov 15 13:30-15:00
Cisco Cloud Platform and Solutions Group Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Carl Moberg, Harold Lowenthal, Omar Sultan
Friday, Nov 15 15:30-18:00
Cisco Enterprise Networks Presents at Tech Field Day 20
Presenters: Aaron Rohyans, Abhishek Bagchi, Fred Niehaus, Michael Kopcsak
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Alissa Nivens

@AlissaNivens

“Project Princess” at Gestalt IT

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


48 Links with Tag #TFD20

  1. Coverage: Beating the Alert Burnout With Forescout XDR
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Forescout
  2. Coverage: Edge Computing – Reality or Myth?
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Chris M Evans
    • Dell, Dell Technologies, Scale Computing
  3. Coverage: Making Money in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
    • Tech Field Day 8
    • Chris M Evans
    • Nutanix, Scale Computing
  4. Coverage: Riverbed Wasn’t Built in a Day
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Riverbed
  5. Coverage: Scale Computing on the Edge With HE150
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  6. Coverage: Voices in Data Storage- Episode 32: A Conversation With Veeam
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Veeam Software
  7. Coverage: Scale Computing’s Edge-To-Enterprise HCI
    • Scale Computing
  8. Coverage: Container-Based WAN Monitoring
    • Networking Field Day 9
    • Pete Welcher
    • Cisco, NetBeez, ThousandEyes
  9. Coverage: Worth Reading: Understanding Scale Computing HC3 Edge Fabric
    • Ivan Pepelnjak
    • Scale Computing
  10. Coverage: Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Scale Computing
  11. Coverage: Scale Computing Makes Big Announcement About Small HE150
    • Dan Frith
    • Scale Computing
  12. Coverage: NetApp Goes to the Cloud
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • NetApp
  13. Coverage: Tech Field Day From the Other Side
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Tech Field Day
  14. Coverage: What I Want in a Root Cause Analysis Tool
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers, SolarWinds
  15. Coverage: Understanding Scale Computing HC3 Edge Fabric
    • Ethan Banks
    • Packet Pushers, Scale Computing
  16. Coverage: Veeam Availability Suite: Scale-Out Backup Repository, Enhanced NAS Backup and (Soon) CDP!
    • Jon Klaus
    • Veeam Software
  17. Coverage: NetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • NetApp
  18. Coverage: BIB 084 Keysight Ixia Visibility and Testing
    • Greg Ferro
    • Ixia, Packet Pushers
  19. Coverage: BiB083 – Forescout – Visibility for Segmentation
    • Greg Ferro
    • Forescout, Packet Pushers
  20. Coverage: Ransomware and Response Done Right
    • Ixia
  21. Coverage: The Importance of User Interfaces in IT Infrastructure Management
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Cisco, Forescout, SolarWinds
  22. Coverage: Data Visualization: A Picture Is Worth a 1000 Words
    • Jon Klaus
    • SolarWinds
  23. Coverage: Edge Computing Is the New Black
    • Enrico Signoretti
    • Riverbed, Scale Computing
  24. Coverage: Mastering the Art of Data Visualization
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Cisco
  25. Coverage: Tech Field Day Recap #TFD20
    • Veeam Software
  26. Coverage: Veeam at #TFD20
    • Veeam Software
  27. Coverage: 20/10 Vision: Aruba’s 20th Presentation at Tech Field Day’s 10th Anniversary
    • Mobility Field Day 3, Networking Field Day 21, Networking Field Day 6, Security Field Day 1, Wireless Field Day 2, Wireless Field Day 4, Wireless Field Day 8
    • HPE Aruba Networking, Tech Field Day
  28. Coverage: Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jon Klaus
    • Jon Klaus
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  29. Coverage: BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – the On-Premise IT Roundtable
    • Chris M Evans, Greg Knieriemen, Ray Lucchesi, Stephen Foskett
    • On-Premise IT
  30. Coverage: Veeam Enhanced NAS Backup – TFD20
    • Veeam Software
  31. Coverage: Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Jordan Martin
    • Jordan Martin
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  32. Coverage: Congrats to Tech Field Day for Hitting 10 Years!
    • Matt Crape
    • Tech Field Day
  33. Coverage: Tech Field Day 20: Switch Forward to a Cloud-Native Network From Edge to Data Center
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  34. Coverage: Meet the #TFD Founder: Stephen Foskett
    • Stephen Foskett
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  35. Coverage: #TFD Turns 10
    • Matthew Leib
    • Tech Field Day
  36. Coverage: Meet the #TFD20 Delegates: Max Mortillaro
    • Max Mortillaro
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  37. Coverage: Heading to Tech Field Day 20
    • Veeam Software
  38. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Gina Rosenthal
    • Gina Rosenthal, Mel Zura
  39. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Greg Ferro
    • Greg Ferro, Mel Zura
  40. Coverage: Congratulations Tech Field Day
    • Al Rasheed
    • Tech Field Day
  41. Coverage: Tech Field Day 20: Everyone We’re Psyched to See
    • BlueCat
  42. Coverage: Tech Field Day 20 Is Right Around the Corner!
    • Max Mortillaro
    • Tech Field Day
  43. Coverage: Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Andrew Von Nagy
    • Wireless Field Day 1
    • Andrew vonNagy
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  44. Coverage: Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Greg Ferro
    • Greg Ferro
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  45. Coverage: Probing the Last Mile
    • Networking Field Day 21
    • Ixia
  46. Coverage: Meet the First #TFD Delegates: Jennifer Huber
    • Jennifer Huber
    • HPE Aruba Networking
  47. Coverage: Tech Field Day 20 – The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
    • Tech Field Day 2
    • Greg Ferro, Stephen Foskett
    • Tech Field Day
  48. Coverage: Spicing Things Up With Tech Field Day 20!
    • Jon Klaus

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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