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Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies HCI & Storage: Cutting Edge Infrastructure to Drive Your Business

Row 1 (L-R): Stephen Foskett, Karen Lopez, Keiran Shelden
Row 2 (L-R): Scott Lowe, Arjan Timmerman, Pietro Piutti
Row 3 (L-R): Ben Gage, Dukagjin Maloku, Gina Rosenthal, Andrea Mauro

Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies HCI & Storage: Cutting Edge Infrastructure to Drive Your Business
August 2–3, 2021
#TFDxDell21
Who: Storage, Tech
What: Dell, Exclusive
When: Past
Where: Virtual

Tech Field Day presents a special two-day live event focused on Dell Technologies Storage and VxRail. Join the Tech Field Day delegates as they learn about Dell EMC PowerStore, APEX, and PowerMax on August 2 and VxRail on August 3, in association with Intel, NVIDIA, and VMware.

Content will include live interactive presentations, discussions with the Field Day delegate panel, and in-depth demonstrations. These sessions will be streamed live on the Tech Field Day website, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages, and will be shared on our YouTube channel as well.

Event Agenda

Monday, August 2

TFDxDell21 iCal

Add these presentations to your calendar!

  • 08:00 – Modern Infrastructure for the Data Era
  • 08:20 – Dell EMC PowerStore Overview
  • 08:40 – Dell EMC PowerStoreOS 2.0
  • 09:00 – VMware DNA at the Heart of a Storage Solution
  • 09:20 – PowerStore Data Mobility
  • 09:40 – Interactive Demo: Multi-Appliance Dell EMC PowerStore Clusters
  • 10:30 – Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Kubernetes
  • 10:50 – APEX – Block Data Storage Services
  • 11:10 – Dell EMC CloudIQ Presentation and Demo
  • 12:00 – Mission Critical Applications and Their Requirements
  • 12:20 – PowerMax Technology Highlights
  • 12:40 – PowerMax Demonstrations

Join the discussion on Twitter using hashtag #TFDxDell21 and tag @DellEMCStorage

Tuesday, August 3

TFDxDell21 iCal

Add these presentations to your calendar!

  • 08:00 – The VxRail Advantage
  • 08:15 – VxRail LCM and vLCM better together
  • 08:35 – VxRail Configuration & Deployment
  • 08:50 – VxRail Management Overview
  • 09:20 – Customer Presentation: New Belgium Brewing
  • 10:05 – VxRail Dynamic Nodes – Flexibility for the Future
  • 10:40 – What Does “Seamless Technology Integration” Mean for VxRail?
  • 10:55 – NVIDIA-Certified VxRail for GPU Intensive Workloads
  • 11:10 – GPUs: AI, ML, and More…Oh My!
  • 11:55 – Get the Most Out Of Your K8s with Tanzu on VxRail
  • 12:20 – VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail – Simple Path to Modern Apps and the Hybrid Cloud
  • 12:40 – Tanzu on VxRail Demo

Join the discussion on Twitter using hashtag #TFDxDell21 and tag @DellEMC_HCI

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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

Arjan Timmerman

@ArjanTim

Into the cloud…. And beyond

Dukagjin Maloku

@DugiDM

Senior Cloud Engineer with strong focus on Cloud stuff

Gina Rosenthal

@GMinks

Founder of Digital Sunshine Solutions, EMC, Dell, and VMware alum (along with a few startups!), and a vExpert.

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.

Kerstin Mende-Stief

@Fraustief_in_IT

Kerstin has her own magazine data://disrupted® and is obsessed with next generation firewalls.

Pietro Piutti

@Stingray92

50% Analog, 50% Digital Systems Engineer

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.

Scott D. Lowe

@OtherScottLowe

Scott D. Lowe is an independent consultant, blogger, and author focusing on issues that affect the CIO and on the virtualization and storage markets.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Monday, Aug 2 8:00-8:20
Dell Technologies Presents the Storage and HCI Portfolio
Presenters: Shannon Champion
Monday, Aug 2 8:20-11:30
Dell EMC PowerStore Differentiated Capabilities
Presenters: Avishek Kumar, Chuck Farah, Doug Bernhardt, Ethan Stokes, Marco Abela, Rob Hunsaker, Susan Sharpe
Monday, Aug 2 12:00-13:00
Dell EMC PowerMax Mission-Critical Storage
Presenters: Drew Tonnesen, John Madden, Kevin Vaillancourt, Vince Westin
Tuesday, Aug 3 8:00-9:35
Dell Technologies Presents VxRail Curated Automation
Presenters: Adam Little, Ash McCarty, Curtis Edwards, Daniel Chiu, Jeremy Merrill, Michael Gordon, Paul Galjan
Tuesday, Aug 3 10:05-10:40
Dell Technologies Presents VxRail Flexible Storage
Presenters: Daniel Chiu, Don Pisinski
Tuesday, Aug 3 10:40-11:25
Dell Technologies Presents VxRail Flexible Platforms and Deployments
Presenters: Ash McCarty, Bill Leslie, Bob Crovella, David Glynn, Trevor Montgomery
Tuesday, Aug 3 11:55-13:00
Dell Technologies Presents VxRail Flexible Cloud
Presenters: Chris Catano, Jason Marques
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 Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.


Links with Tag #TFDxDell21

  1. D://xprs0017: Processors in Italy, a British Comeback and the Email Celebrates Its Birthday
    • Networking Field Day 25, Networking Field Day 26, Security Field Day 6
    • Kerstin Mende-Stief, Wolfgang Stief
    • Apstra, Intel, Juniper Networks, Versa Networks
  2. Dell EMC PowerStore X and the Edge
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies
  3. VxRail Tech Field Day – a Technical Relay Race for the Athletically Challenged
    • Dell, Dell Technologies, VMware
  4. It’s Been a Dell EMC VxRail Filled Summer
    • Dell, Dell Technologies
  5. VxRail + Tanzu = Kubernetes Optimization
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • VMware
  6. Accelerating Value at the Edge With Dell VxRail
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Dell, Dell Technologies
  7. Dell PowerMax: Storage for Mission-Critical-Operations
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies
  8. Data-Driven Storage: Dell EMC Powerstore
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies
  9. How Dell and VxRail Integrate Tech to Be Best in Class
    • Zach DeMeyer
    • Dell, Dell Technologies
  10. The Gap Between Marketing and Product Reality
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Dell, Dell Technologies
  11. Dell Technologies PowerStore: The Storage Solution With VMware at Its Heart (Literally)
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies
  12. Dell Technologies VxRail in 2021: Beyond VSAN and Ready for the VMware Tanzu Era
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Dell, Dell Technologies
  13. Dell, VMware, Intel, NVIDIA: Weniger Latenz Bei Workloads
    • Kerstin Mende-Stief
    • Dell, Dell Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, VMware
  14. Where Does Latency Come From in Enterprise-Storage-Systems and What Can Enterprises Do to Minimise It
    • Kerstin Mende-Stief
    • Dell, Dell Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, VMware
  15. Dell Technologies PowerStore: The Storage Solution With VMware at Its Heart (Literally)
    • Pietro Piutti
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies
  16. Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies HCI & Storage: Cutting Edge Infrastructure to Drive Your Business
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Dell, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, 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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