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Virtualization Field Day 3

Virtualization Field Day 3
March 5–7, 2014
#VFD3
Who: Virtualization
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Silicon Valley

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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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Trainer, Writer, Consultant, Geek. From New Zealand.

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 Foskett is a writer and speaker on enterprise IT topics and organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series.

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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  4. Vendor Briefing – Atlantis Computing
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  5. Disaggregated Physical Storage Architectures and Hyperconvergence
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  6. Tech Field Day 11 Preview: CloudPhysics
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  7. Some changes to CloudPhysics Free Edition
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  8. Atlantis HyperScale products
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    • Atlantis Computing
  9. Atlantis USX installation and configuration
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Atlantis Computing
  10. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: VMTurbo
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  11. VMworld EU 2014 Report – Atlantis Computing
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  12. Introducing the new Commvault Simpana solution sets
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Commvault
  13. Atlantis USX 2.0: more than Software-Defined Storage
    • Andrea Mauro
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  14. Keep tabs on the health of your VMware environment with CloudPhysics analytics
    • Lauren Malhoit
    • CloudPhysics
  15. 30 Days hands-on with VMTurbo’s OpsMan
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Turbonomic
  16. Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
    • Eric Wright
    • Atlantis Computing
  17. Interview with Paul Meehan
    • James Green, Paul Meehan
  18. CloudPhysics, vSphere management by Big Data – An interesting name for an interesting company!
    • Alastair Cooke
    • CloudPhysics, VMware
  19. VirtAdminInterview with Eric Wright
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  20. Storage Analytics with CloudPhysics
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  21. NEW CloudPhysics Offering – Storage Analytics
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  22. Taking on your storage situation with CloudPhysics – new Storage Analytics release!
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  24. Commvault: not only backup solutions
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  25. PURE STORAGE: Are they the last man standing?
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  26. Big data analytics with CloudPhysics
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    • CloudPhysics
  27. Storage Networking excellence in an easy-to-digest .mp3
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  28. Pure Storage and its “pure flash” solution
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    • Pure Storage
  29. Use CloudPhysics to Determine How Much SSD Cache to Buy
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    • CloudPhysics
  30. Spirent bring testing methodologies and tools in the virtual datacenter
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    • Spirent
  31. Pure: All Flash for Everyone
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  32. VMTurbo wants to vStimulate your vEconomy
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  33. CloudPhysics Datacenter Analytics Done Right
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  34. Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
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  38. Interview with Eric Shanks
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  42. Two interesting videos from Virtualization Field Day 3
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  43. 100,000 Times Faster!!
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  45. Turning the Power of IT Back on Itself
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    • CloudPhysics
  46. VMTurbo bring resources broker capability in your infrastructure
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    • Turbonomic
  47. CloudPhysics vSphere Design Based on Big Data Analytics
    • Eric Shanks
    • CloudPhysics
  48. AutoLab 1.5 released, vSphere 5.5 and vSAN
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  49. Friday Shorts – Infinio Lab License, @VMPete iSCSI and #VFD3
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  50. Coho Data bring a cool solution in the storage arena
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  51. Silicon Valley: The gift that keeps on giving (VFD3)
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    • Turbonomic
  52. Pure Storage has 99 problems but a disk ain’t one
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    • Pure Storage
  53. Virtualization Field Day 3 Twitter Statistics
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    • CloudPhysics
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    • Atlantis Computing
  56. Software Defined Storage Is Officially “A Thing” And Worth Considering For Your Data Center
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  57. CloudPhysics…..Is this about Physics or IT?
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    • CloudPhysics
  58. Validate your Cloud with Spirent
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    • Spirent
  59. VMTurbo as a Market Economy
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    • Turbonomic
  60. The best physics is CloudPhysics!
    • Eric Wright
    • CloudPhysics
  61. VMTurbo – turbo charging your IT operations
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  62. Field Day delegates descend on Coho Data
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  63. Initial Musing about Coho Data Scale Out Networking
    • Eric Shanks
    • Coho Data
  64. Mea Culpa, Ma Paenitet Commvault Simpana
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Commvault
  65. Commvault – The simple goodness of Simpana
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  66. Tap your Hypervisor with Spirent
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  67. Atlantis Computing: A New Approach
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  68. Designing the Next Generation vSphere Storage Systems
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  69. Spirent – the art of the test
    • Eric Wright
    • Spirent
  70. Don’t Let Raw Storage Metrics Solely Drive Your Buying Decision
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • Coho Data
  71. Kicking it with Coho
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    • Coho Data
  72. Tech Field Day VFD3 – Coho Data – Coho-ly Moly this is a cool product!
    • Eric Wright
    • Coho Data
  73. Dear Syslog, regarding NAT & #VFD3 Day 0
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  74. The ABCs of #VFD3
    • Jeff Wilson
  75. #VFD3 Day One In the Books, What to Know
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  76. Should You Consider Pure Storage as your Next Array?
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    • Pure Storage
  77. Tech Field Day VFD3 – Pure Storage and the all-flash revolution
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    • Eric Wright
    • Atlantis Computing
  79. Big Data is Coming After Your Data Center And That’s a Good Thing
    • Scott D. Lowe
    • CloudPhysics
  80. VFD3 Live Stream
    • James Green
  81. Virtualization Field Day 3 – Live Stream
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  82. Virtualization Field Day 3 Live Stream
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  83. Virtualization Field Day – Day 0
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  84. Ready for the Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Andrea Mauro
  85. Getting ready of VFD3
    • Alastair Cooke
  86. Virtualization Field Day 3 is approaching!
    • Marco Broeken
  87. #VFD 3 or bust!
    • Atlantis Computing, Coho Data
  88. What to expect during Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Eric Wright
  89. Virtualization Field Day 3
    • Eric Shanks
  90. Atlantis ILIO USX, In-Memory Performance for Servers
    • Marco Broeken
    • Atlantis Computing
  91. Atlantis ILIO USX – Unified Software-defined Storage
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Atlantis Computing
  92. Virtualization Field Day 3 Fast Approaching
    • Rick Schlander
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  93. Join the Tech Field Day family
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  94. Guess who’s going to be at Virtualization Field Day 3?
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  95. Virtualization Field Day 3
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  96. Virtualization Field Day #3
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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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