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You are here: Home / Events / Virtualization Field Day 4

Virtualization Field Day 4

Virtualization Field Day 4

January 14–January 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 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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