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Tech Field Day 22

Tech Field Day 22

December 9–December 11, 2020

#TFD22

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Virtual

Tech Field Day 22 is an extra-special event with two delegate panels!

Because this virtual event features delegates and presenters from around the world, we have split our schedule into “early” and “late” sessions, each with its own 12-delegate panel and presenting companies.

Wednesday Thursday Friday
Early Presenting Companies Commvault
Quantum
Veeam
Red Hat
VMware
Delegate Panel Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Phillip Sellers, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Late Presenting Companies Cisco
MemVerge
Riverbed Illumio
Delegate Panel Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Chris Hildebrandt, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger

 

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Presenting Sponsors

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.

Al Rasheed

@Al_Rasheed

Systems Administrator | DC VMUG Co-Leader | VMware vExpert

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Dutch analyst, world traveler and technology advisor

Bart Heungens

@BartHeungens

Technology enthousiast, blogger, trainer, speaker, trusted advisor, loves on-prem, uses cloud

Ben Mason

@suidroot

Ben is a Security Architect, Hacker, and Security Researcher with 20+ years of experience in the security and network industries.

Bruno Wollmann

@WollmannBruno

Self-employed network architect with over 20 years of experience. I’m always willing to learn, and I like a good challenge. CCDE #20190002. CCIE #19817.

Chris Hildebrandt

@CHildebrandt42

Sr EUC Consultant

Chris Maki

@ChrisMaki

Principal Solutions Architect, CDW Canada

David Chapa

@DavidChapa

Advisor to CxOs, Technology Exec, Market & Product Strategist, World-Class Speaker, Business-Centric IT, #MrRecovery, #Musician

Erik Ableson

@EAbleson

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

Jasper Bongertz

@PacketJay

Principal Network Security Specialist at G DATA Advanced Analytics

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

Kori Younger

@CyberKori

Industrial Networking, Security, Wireless and all of the “things”.

Lino Telera

@LinoTelera

Platform Engineer focused in IaC automation @ InfoCert S.p.A., blogger, podcaster

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

Max Mortillaro

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

Michael Davis

@0UR080R05

IT generalist and information broker, part time pyro and full time sarcasm.

Ned Bellavance

@Ned1313

Ned is a technical educator and content creator focused on cloud technologies.

Nico Stein

@NicoAStein

Nico has been working in IT for over 15 years and is currently the AVP of IT at a Credit Union based in Maryland.

Philip Sellers

@InfraPhilip

IT Strategist and Solver / Solutions Architect for XenTegra

Rob Koper

@50mu

Storage is my middle name and I love cats, motorcycles, volleyball and traveling through Europe.

Robert Novak

@Gallifreyan

Citizen-analyst, writer, comedian, shopkeeper, retired system administrator, griller and smoker

Scott Bollinger

@kfalconspb

I have been an IT professional for over 25 years. Half that time, in a Fortune 50 financial corporation, and the other half with small/medium size businesses.

Steven Cortez

@MSCProductions

With 20+ years of IT industry experience, I bring a unique real world view to the Virtualization Technical Marketing Engineer role

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, Dec 9 05:00-07:00
Commvault Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: David Ngo, Don Foster, Geeta Vaghela, Janet Giesen, Jeff Harbert, Mathew Ericson, Rahul Pawar
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Wednesday, Dec 9 08:00-10:00
Quantum Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Ed Fiore, Noemi Greyzdorf, Sherman Schorzman, Thomas Demoor
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, David Chapa, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Wednesday, Dec 9 11:00-12:00
Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Muhammad Imam, Navjyoti Sharma
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Chris Hildebrandt, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger
Wednesday, Dec 9 13:00-15:00
MemVerge Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Charles Fan, Charlie Yu, Yue Li
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Chris Hildebrandt, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger
Thursday, Dec 10 05:00-07:00
Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: David Hill, Kirsten Stoner, Melissa Palmer, Rick Vanover
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Thursday, Dec 10 08:00-09:30
Red Hat Presents OpenShift at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Jason Dobies, Mark Schmitt, Nick Barcet, Troy Mangum
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, David Chapa, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Thursday, Dec 10 11:30-15:00
Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Brandon Carroll, Gwen Blum, John Pittle, Phil Gervasi, Rich McBee, Vincent Berk
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Chris Hildebrandt, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger
Friday, Dec 11 08:00-10:00
VMware Presents Disaster Recovery as a Service at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Mark Chuang, Michael McLaughlin, Nabil Quadri, Sazzala Reddy
Delegate Panel: Arjan Timmerman, Bart Heungens, Bruno Wollmann, Jasper Bongertz, Kori Younger, Lino Telera, Max Mortillaro, Michael Davis, Ned Bellavance, Rob Koper, Steven Cortez
Friday, Dec 11 11:00-13:00
Illumio Presents at Tech Field Day 22
Presenters: Bharath Shashikumar, Harish Chakravarthy, Matthew Glenn, Neil Patel, PJ Kirner, Pierre-Louis Gingembre
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ben Mason, Bruno Wollmann, Chris Hildebrandt, Chris Maki, David Chapa, Erik Ableson, Jody Lemoine, Justin Warren, Kori Younger, Matthew Leib, Nico Stein, Robert Novak, Scott Bollinger
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 …

Matt Garvin

@MrMattGarvin

Matt Garvin is an Event Manager and brings nine years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT

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


44 Links with Tag #TFD22

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    • Justin Warren
    • Cisco
  2. Coverage: Quantum ActiveScale Delivers Scalable, Resilient Object Storage On-Premises
    • Quantum
  3. Coverage: Commvault Simplifies Disaster Recovery for Hybrid Multi-Cloud Workloads
    • Commvault
  4. Coverage: MemVerge Introduces Big Memory at Tech Field Day
    • MemVerge
  5. Coverage: Veeam Targets Cloud-Native Data Protection
    • Veeam Software
  6. Coverage: Creating a Backup Repository in Veeam Backup & Replication V11
    • Al Rasheed
    • Veeam Software
  7. Coverage: Creating a New Physical Protection Infrastructure Group in VBR V11
    • Al Rasheed
    • Veeam Software
  8. Coverage: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Brings Operational Consistency to the Edge
    • Red Hat
  9. Coverage: VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery Enables As-A-Service Ease and Fast Recovery
    • VMware by Broadcom
  10. Coverage: Unifying SD-WAN and Edge With Cisco Catalyst 8000 Series
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Cisco
  11. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22: Protecting Your Cloud With Veeam
    • Lino Telera
    • Veeam Software
  12. Coverage: Illumio Adds Microsegmentation of Microworkloads
    • Justin Warren
    • Illumio
  13. Coverage: Riverbed Wants You to Stop Being the Network Superhero
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Riverbed
  14. Coverage: MemVerge Is Amazing
    • Justin Warren
    • MemVerge
  15. Coverage: Operationalizing Zero Trust Security With Illumio
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Illumio
  16. Coverage: You Can Save Money on Your Insurance, OK Your DR
    • Alastair Cooke
    • VMware by Broadcom
  17. Coverage: Making Bandwidth Work With Riverbed
    • Justin Warren
    • Riverbed
  18. Coverage: TFD22 – TECHunplugged Take on VMware DRaaS
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • VMware by Broadcom
  19. Coverage: Veeam ONE at Tech Field Day 22
    • Al Rasheed
    • Veeam Software
  20. Coverage: Red Hat at the Edge
    • Ned Bellavance
    • Red Hat
  21. Coverage: Why You Need Veeam to Backup Your Cloud Data
    • Adam Fisher
    • Veeam Software
  22. Coverage: TECHunplugged Take on Veeam Software During TFD22
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Veeam Software
  23. Coverage: VMware Will Present at TFD22
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • VMware by Broadcom
  24. Coverage: MemVerge Presents at #TFD22
    • Matthew Leib
    • MemVerge
  25. Coverage: VMware Cloud DR Is Good Enough?
    • Ned Bellavance
    • VMware by Broadcom
  26. Coverage: Day 2 of TFD22 Starts With Veeam
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Veeam Software
  27. Coverage: Veeam Loves Mobility
    • Ned Bellavance
    • Kasten by Veeam, Veeam Software
  28. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22 – the TECHunplugged Take on Quantum
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Quantum
  29. Coverage: Looking Ahead: Veeam at Tech Field Day 22
    • Al Rasheed
    • Veeam Software
  30. Coverage: Quantum Will Present at TFD22
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Quantum
  31. Coverage: Commvault and Kubernetes – Tech Field Day 22
    • Ned Bellavance
    • Commvault
  32. Coverage: Ready for Tech Field Day 22
    • Lino Telera
  33. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22: The TECHunplugged Take on Red Hat OpenShift
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Red Hat
  34. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22 – the TECHunplugged Take on Commvault
    • Arjan Timmerman, Max Mortillaro
    • Commvault
  35. Coverage: What You Can Expect to Learn at Tech Field Day 22
    • Illumio
  36. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Steven Cortez
    • Matt Garvin, Steven Cortez
  37. Coverage: I’m in Tech Field Day 22!
    • Rob Koper
  38. Coverage: Commvault Will Present at TFD22
    • Arjan Timmerman
    • Commvault
  39. Coverage: I Didn’t Think I’d Be Able to Say This So Soon… (He’s Baaack at Tech Field Day!)
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Robert Novak
  40. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22 – The Biggest Field Day Event Yet
    • Georgina Ford
  41. Coverage: Meet Field Day Delegate – Phillip Sellers
    • Matt Garvin, Philip Sellers
  42. Coverage: Join Us at Tech Field Day!
    • Quantum
  43. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22 Unwraps Latest Updates on Technology Advancements
    • Commvault
  44. Coverage: Tech Field Day 22: Delivering On-Demand, Easy to Use Disaster Recovery as a Service Solution With Cloud Economics
    • VMware by Broadcom

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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