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Virtualization Field Day 4

Virtualization Field Day 4
January 14–16, 2015
#VFD4
Who: Virtualization
What: Field Day
When: Past
Location: Austin

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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.

Amit Panchal

@AmitPanchal76

Technical IT Manager and blogger at apanchal.com.

Amy Manley

@WyrdGirl

12 years in IT, vExpert and an automation junkie

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

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

Emad Younis

@Emad_Younis

Emad is a datacenter enthusiast, 2 x vExpert, and blogger @ emadyounis.com.

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.

Julian Wood

@Julian_Wood

Julian is a London based enterprise infrasstructure architect and blogger.

Justin Warren

@JPWarren

Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine

Larry Smith

@MrLESmithJr

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

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

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

Matt Simmons

@StandaloneSA

Small Infrastructure IT Administrator in Academia

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh!

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, Jan 14 09:30 - 11:30 SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Brian Knudtson, Jesse St. Laurent
Wednesday, Jan 14 13:00 - 15:00 Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Madhura Maskasky, Sirish Raghuram
Wednesday, Jan 14 15:30 - 17:30 VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Endre Sara, Eric Bannon, Eric Wright
Thursday, Jan 15 08:00 - 10:00 StorMagic Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Hans O'Sullivan, Luke Pruen
Thursday, Jan 15 10:30 - 12:30 SolarWinds Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Joel Dolisy, Kevin Miele, Nikki Jennings
Thursday, Jan 15 13:30 - 15:30 Commvault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Don Foster, Robbie Wright
Friday, Jan 16 08:00 - 12:00 Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
Presenters: Carol Pflueger, John Maxwell, John Shirley, Kishore Gagrani, Matt Baker, Mervin Nalletamby, Scott DesBles
Friday, Jan 16 13:00 - 15:00 Scale Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
All dates and times listed are local time in Austin, US/Central.

Event Staff

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.


Links with Tag #VFD4

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  2. Clone a VM without any IO. Curiouser and curiouser!
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  3. HowTo: Platform9 + Ravello + VMware
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  4. SolarWinds thwackCamp 2015
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    • SolarWinds
  5. Dell FX converged architecture
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Dell
  6. Commvault: We’re not just a backup company but we don’t like telling you
    • Julian Wood
    • Commvault
  7. Solarwinds AppStack with SRM Flavor and More!
    • Amy Manley
    • SolarWinds
  8. Scale Computing Adds Disaster Recovery for SMB
    • Marco Broeken
    • Scale Computing
  9. VMTurbo Putting a price on resources!
    • Mike Preston
    • Turbonomic
  10. SimpliVity’s Approach to Deduplication
    • Emad Younis
    • SimpliVity
  11. StorMagic and Enterprise SMB
    • Justin Warren
    • StorMagic
  12. VMTurbo, Master of the software-defined universe – Part 1
    • Amy Manley
    • Turbonomic
  13. StorMagic A VSA living on the edge
    • Mike Preston
    • StorMagic
  14. StorMagic coupling with VMware for ROBO goodness
    • Amit Panchal
    • StorMagic
  15. VMware & StorMagic deliver a 2-node HA Storage Solution
    • Marco Broeken
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  16. Could StorMagic SvSAN replace VSA?
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    • Andrea Mauro
    • StorMagic
  17. How Solarwinds aims to offer a simple perspective
    • Amit Panchal
    • SolarWinds
  18. Reasons to Consider Private Cloud with Platform9
    • Emad Younis
    • Platform9 Systems
  19. Platform9 – Private cloud in 10 minutes or its free…
    • Mike Preston
    • Platform9 Systems
  20. Scale Computing – bringing hyperconvergence to the SMB
    • Mike Preston
    • Scale Computing
  21. Scale Computing & the Led Zeppelin School of Virtualization
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    • Scale Computing
  22. Tech Field Day – Scale Computing
    • Larry Smith
    • Scale Computing
  23. VMTurbo at Tech Field Day in Austin
    • Eric Wright
    • Turbonomic
  24. Scale Computing – Hyperconvergence for a 4 year old
    • Amy Manley
    • Scale Computing
  25. Tech Field Day – #VFD4 – Platform9
    • Larry Smith
    • Platform9 Systems
  26. Women of Tech Field Day
    • Amy Manley
    • Tech Field Day
  27. Dell FX Architecture
    • Larry Smith
    • Dell
  28. Tech Field Day – VFD4 Experience
    • Larry Smith
    • Tech Field Day
  29. Simplivity and the proliferation of Hyperconvergence
    • Amit Panchal
    • SimpliVity
  30. Platform9 manages private clouds as a service
    • Platform9 Systems
  31. Managing all the stacks : Platform9
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Platform9 Systems
  32. VFD4 – What I learned and who I saw
    • Amit Panchal
    • Tech Field Day
  33. Platform9 SaaS solution for enterprise infrastructure is now GA
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Platform9 Systems
  34. Platform9 on KVM in General Availability; Launch of VMware Beta Program
    • Eric Wright
    • Platform9 Systems
  35. VFD4 – The email
    • Amy Manley, Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth
    • Tech Field Day
  36. The new face of storage bloggers
    • Gina Rosenthal
    • Tech Field Day
  37. StorMagic SvSan and the Problem of the Distributed Enterprise
    • Jeff Wilson
    • StorMagic
  38. #VFD4 Live – Scale Computing
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • James Green
    • Scale Computing
  39. #VFD4 Live – Dell
    • James Green
    • Compellent, Dell, Ocarina Networks
  40. #VFD4 Live – Commvault
    • James Green
    • Commvault
  41. #VFD4 Live – Solarwinds
    • James Green
    • SolarWinds
  42. #VFD4 Live – StorMagic
    • James Green
    • StorMagic
  43. Live from #VFD4
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Tech Field Day
  44. #VFD4 Live – VMTurbo
    • James Green
    • Turbonomic
  45. Dell welcomes delegates to Virtualization Tech Field Day 4
    • Dell
  46. #VFD4 Live – Platform9
    • James Green
    • Platform9 Systems
  47. #VFD4 Live – SimpliVity
    • James Green
    • SimpliVity
  48. VFD4 Prep: Dell
    • Justin Warren
    • Dell
  49. VFD4 Prep: Scale Computing
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Justin Warren
    • Scale Computing
  50. VFD4 is Upon Us!
    • James Green
    • Tech Field Day
  51. The VFD4 Delegates
    • James Green
  52. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: VMTurbo
    • Virtualization Field Day 3
    • James Green
    • Turbonomic
  53. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: StorMagic
    • James Green
    • Riverbed, StorMagic
  54. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: Solarwinds
    • James Green
    • SolarWinds
  55. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: SimpliVity
    • Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2014
    • James Green
    • Cisco, SimpliVity
  56. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: Scale Computing
    • James Green
    • Scale Computing
  57. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: Platform9
    • James Green
    • Platform9 Systems
  58. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: Dell
    • James Green
    • Dell
  59. VFD4 Vendor Overviews: Commvault
    • James Green
    • Commvault
  60. VFD4 Prep: Solarwinds
    • Tech Field Day 9
    • Justin Warren
    • SolarWinds
  61. VFD4 Prep: SimpliVity
    • Justin Warren
    • SimpliVity
  62. VFD4 Prep: Commvault
    • Tech Field Day 9
    • Justin Warren
    • Commvault
  63. VFD4 Prep: Platform9
    • Justin Warren
    • Platform9 Systems
  64. A glimpse into the #VFD4 Sponsors – Simplivity, SolarWinds, StorMagic and VMTurbo
    • Mike Preston
    • SimpliVity, SolarWinds, StorMagic, Turbonomic
  65. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview
    • Julian Wood
    • Tech Field Day
  66. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Dell
    • Julian Wood
    • Dell
  67. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: SimpliVity
    • Julian Wood
    • SimpliVity
  68. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Scale Computing
    • Julian Wood
    • Scale Computing
  69. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Platform9
    • Julian Wood
    • Platform9 Systems
  70. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: VMTurbo
    • Julian Wood
    • Turbonomic
  71. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: StorMagic
    • Julian Wood
    • StorMagic
  72. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Commvault
    • Julian Wood
    • Commvault
  73. VFD4 Prep: StorMagic
    • Justin Warren
    • StorMagic
  74. Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: SolarWinds
    • Julian Wood
    • SolarWinds
  75. A glimpse into the #VFD4 sponsors – Commvault, Dell, Platform9 and Scale Computing
    • Mike Preston
    • Commvault, Dell, Platform9 Systems, Scale Computing
  76. VFD4 Prep: VMTurbo
    • Justin Warren
    • Turbonomic
  77. My poor neglected blog
    • Amy Manley
  78. Upcoming Event: Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin!
    • Matt Simmons
  79. Virtualization Field Day 4 is aproaching
    • Marco Broeken
  80. Tech Field Day
    • Larry Smith
  81. And Then There Were Twelve: VFD4 Delegates Announced
    • Emad Younis
  82. Why yes I’ll be a Delegate at Virtualization Field Day 4!
    • Christopher Kusek
  83. An IT Guy,His Keyboard, Career and #VFD4
    • Jeff Wilson
    • Commvault, Dell, SimpliVity, SolarWinds, Turbonomic
  84. A Canadian in Texas?
    • Mike Preston
  85. Virtualization Field Day 4 – Here I come….
    • Amit Panchal
  86. Announcement: I’m Going to VFD4!
    • Justin Warren
    • Tech Field Day
  87. I’m Returning for VFD4!
    • James Green

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.


This is a Past Virtualization in Austin


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