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Tech Field Day 21

Tech Field Day 21
March 11–13, 2020
#TFD21
Who: Tech
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Virtual

Important Update: In light of travel restrictions due to the global spread of COVID-19, we have switched Tech Field Day 21 to a “virtual event” with the delegates and presenters participating online. We will be updating the schedule on our website as presentations are rescheduled and confirmed.

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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.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Brandon Graves

@BrandonGraves08

Brandon Graves is a Storage and Virtualization Engineer with over 10 years in enterprise experience.

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

Technology Evangelist, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

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

Glenda Canfield

@CitrixGurl

An experienced enterprise Citrix/VMware engineer with proven success in designing and supporting on-demand application data centers

Jeffrey Powers

@Geekazine

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

Keith R. Parsons

@KeithRParsons

Keith is Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals, and focuses his energy on providing great WLAN education, design and consulting to global customers.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies.

Larry Smith

@MrLESmithJr

Technical Solutions Architect for World Wide Technology(WWT) focusing on automation.

Mariusz Kaczorek

@Settlersoman

IT Architect with passion for Virtualization and Storage Solutions.

Markus Leinonen

@MarkusLeinonen

Enterprise IT Enthusiast & YouTuber

Max Mortillaro

@MaxMortillaro

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

Pete Welcher

@PJWelcher

Pete is a 25-year CCIE (soon Emeritus) with broad-ranging interests in networking, cloud, and automation.

Pietro Piutti

@Stingray92

50% Analog, 50% Digital Systems Engineer

Wes Milliron

@WesMilliron

Systems Engineer specializing in virtualization, automation, and happy hours.

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, Mar 11 7:00-8:00
Zerto Presents at Tech Field Day 21
Presenters: Deepak Verma
Wednesday, Mar 11 14:00-16:00
Google Cloud Presents at Tech Field Day 21
Presenters: Amyn Jivani, Jason Joel, Ken Drachnik, Manish Lohani, Manoj Sharma, Wade Holmes
Thursday, Mar 12 9:00-13:00
VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 21
Presenters: Bo Fu, Dimitri Desmidt, Geoff Wilmington, Gopala Suryanarayana, Matt Just, Ranjit Sawant, Sajid Awan, Shiv Agarwal, Vinay Reddy
All dates and times listed are local time in Virtual, 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 #TFD21

  1. Review Blog: Good Stuff From Tech Field Day 21
    • Pete Welcher
  2. Running Modern Apps With vSphere With Kubernetes
    • Pietro Piutti
    • VMware
  3. Democratizing Kubernetes on VMware With vSphere With Tanzu
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020
    • Pietro Piutti
    • VMware
  4. Tech Field Day 21: VMware Presents on Many Topics
    • Pete Welcher
    • VMware
  5. Tech Field Day 21: Zerto Saves the Data
    • Pete Welcher
    • Zerto
  6. Data Protection in 2020
    • Erik Ableson
    • Zerto
  7. Better Late Than Never: Tech Field Day 21 Summary
    • Pete Welcher
    • Google Cloud, VMware, Zerto
  8. VMware’s vSphere Unites Containers and Virtual Machines Under One Platform
    • VMware
  9. Why Did VMware Buy Datrium? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 8, 2020
    • Cloud Field Day 5
    • Rich Stroffolino, Tom Hollingsworth
    • Datrium, VMware
  10. Google Cloud VMware Engine (GVE) Brings Native VMware to Google Cloud Platform
    • Google Cloud
  11. Extending ON-PREM to CLOUD With Google Cloud VMware Engine
    • Markus Leinonen
    • Google Cloud, VMware
  12. Zerto 8.0: Realizing Storage Modernization and Cost Savings With VMware Virtual Volumes
    • Zerto
  13. Just Google It: Three Is the Magic Number in the Cloud!
    • Zerto
  14. What Is Data Resilience?
    • Rich Stroffolino
    • Zerto
  15. Cloud Rich Updates in Zerto 8.0
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Zerto
  16. New Features With NSX-T 3.0 – Federation and Kubernetes on vSphere
    • Mariusz Kaczorek
    • VMware
  17. Meet Field Day Delegate – Glenda Canfield
    • Glenda Canfield, Mel Zura
  18. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – Should Customers Wait?
    • Joep Piscaer, Keith Townsend
    • VMware
  19. What’s New in Zerto 8.0
    • Mariusz Kaczorek
    • Zerto
  20. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – CTO Advisor Episode 118
    • Joep Piscaer, Keith Townsend
    • VMware
  21. Hot Take Zerto 8.0 Tech Field Day 21
    • Keith Townsend
    • Zerto
  22. Google Cloud VMware Engine – Hot Take
    • Keith Townsend
    • Google Cloud, VMware
  23. Tech Field Day
    • VMware
  24. vSphere Kubernetes Hot Take
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware

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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Event Calendar

  • May 31-1 — Cloud Field Day 17
  • Jun 6-7 — Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2023
  • Jun 28-29 — Security Field Day 9
  • Jul 12-13 — Edge Field Day 2
  • Jul 26-27 — Networking Field Day 32
  • Aug 21-23 — Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US 2023
  • Sep 20-21 — Storage Field Day 26

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