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You are here: Home / Events / Virtualization Field Day 3

Virtualization Field Day 3

Virtualization Field Day 3

March 5–March 7, 2014

#VFD3

Who: Virtualization

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

David Davis

@DavidMDavis

David Davis is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer covering datacenter technologies.

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Eric Wright

@DiscoPosse

Eric is a multi-year VMware vExpert, and Cisco Champion with a background in systems architecture, Kubernetes, public cloud, virtualization, VMware technologies, OpenStack, Business Continuity, Infrastructure-as-Code, and systems automation.

James Green

@JDGreen

James is Partner & Content Czar at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

Jeff Wilson

@JeffWilsonTech

GSEC-certified IT Professional focused on security in small to medium enterprises. Loves writing time-saving Powershell scripts and blogging.

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl

Paul Meehan

@PaulPMeehan

Irish Freelance Virtualization & Storage Specialist and Blogger at http://paulpmeehan.com

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

Virtualization Architect & vExpert, Minneapolis & Rochester VMUG Leader, NetAppEMC Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer-Blogger.

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 on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Mar 5 9:30 - 11:30 CloudPhysics Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Wednesday, Mar 5 13:00 - 15:00 Atlantis Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Wednesday, Mar 5 16:00 - 18:00 Pure Storage Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Presenters: Joel Mckelvey, Matt Kixmoeller, Neil Vachhrajani, Vaughn Stewart
Thursday, Mar 6 8:00 - 10:00 Coho Data Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Thursday, Mar 6 10:30 - 12:30 Spirent Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Thursday, Mar 6 13:30 - 15:30 Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Thursday, Mar 6 16:00 - 17:00 Community and the IT Imaginarium with Eric Wright
Thursday, Mar 6 17:00-18:00 The Value of Community with Alastair Cooke
Friday, Mar 7 8:30 - 10:30 VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 3
Friday, Mar 7 11:00-12:00 Networking Is Fun Again! VFD3 Community Session
Presenters: Tom Hollingsworth
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Benjamin Freedman

@PrimeImageVideo

Claire Chaplais

@CChaplais

Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …

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

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.


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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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