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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017 August 28–30, 2017
Who: Storage, Tech, Virtualization
What: Extra, VMworld
When: Past
Where: Las Vegas

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Delegates

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.

Becky Elliott

@BeckyLElliott

Technologist and Blogger

Carl Fugate

@CarlFugate

Public Cloud Center of Excellence lead for a healthcare software firm

Dan Frith

@PenguinPunk

I like punk rock and storage arrays.

Eyvonne Sharp

@SharpNetwork

Eyvonne Sharp is a network architect for a Fortune 100 healthcare enterprise.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

John White

@JohnA_White

Dad, technology lover, softball players, car guy, cloud guy, product strategy executive at Expedient.

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Mark Carlton

@MCarlton1983

Mark is a DataCentre Consultant in Wakefield, England

Mark May

@CincyStorage

Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger

Matt Crape

@MattThatITGuy

An IT Generalist with a passion for virtualization, storage, data protection, and helping others.

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

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

Phoummala Schmitt

@ExchangeGoddess

Just trying to survive in IT as a (woman) Sr. Systems Engineer with a focus on Messaging , Virtualization, Storage.

Rick Schlander

@VMRick

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

Rob Coote

@Rob_Coote

20+ year Networking and Virtualization geek, pivoting into Security. Wannabe hacker, but unable to exit Vim since 2014.

Roger Lund

@RogerLund

Roger evangelizes virtualization by night, and is a Solutions Architect at Deltaware Data Solutions during the day.

Sean Thulin

@SThulin

Advanced Virtualization Consultant based in New England.

Tony Mattke

@tonhe

Network guy turned Security Engineer. Jack of all trades, master of none; I love to learn about everything.

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.

August 29, 2017 11:00-12:00 Kingston Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Dan Frith, Keith Townsend, Mark May, Matt Crape, Mike Preston, Phoummala Schmitt, Roger Lund, Ryan Lee, Scott D. Lowe
August 29, 2017 13:00-14:00 Druva Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
Delegate Panel: Dan Frith, Eyvonne Sharp, Howard Marks, Mark Carlton, Mark May, Mike Preston, Roger Lund, Ryan Lee, Scott D. Lowe, Sean Thulin
August 29, 2017 14:30-15:30 Pluribus Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
Delegate Panel: Carl Fugate, Eyvonne Sharp, John White, Mike Preston, Rob Coote, Roger Lund, Sean Thulin, Tony Mattke
August 29, 2017 16:00-17:00 NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
Delegate Panel: Becky Elliott, Carl Fugate, Dan Frith, Eyvonne Sharp, Mark Carlton, Mike Preston, Rick Schlander, Rob Coote, Roger Lund, Sean Thulin

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.


Links with Tag #EVMWU17

20 Links with Tag #EVMWU17

  1. Coverage: Druva Announces Cloud Platform Enhancements | penguinpunk.net
    • Cloud Field Day 3
    • Dan Frith
    • Druva
  2. Coverage: Tech Field Day 2017: An Enthusiastic Retrospective
    • Networking Field Day 16
    • Nikki Schnupp
  3. Coverage: Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
    • Storage Field Day 10, Storage Field Day 11
    • Chris M Evans
    • Avere Systems, Primary Data, Velostrata
  4. Coverage: Highlights from HPEDiscover 2017 Madrid
    • Cloud Field Day 2
    • Lino Telera
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  5. Coverage: 2017 – A Personal Reflection
    • Tech Field Day 14, Tech Field Day 15
    • Matt Crape
  6. Coverage: Cloud Field Day2: Hacking the Cloud with HPE Nimble Cloud Volumes
    • Cloud Field Day 2
    • Lino Telera
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nimble Storage
  7. Coverage: Pluribus Networks Is the Definition of “Software Defined”
    • Networking Field Day 16
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Pluribus Networks
  8. Coverage: Kingston – NVMe Overview at VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra
    • Roger Lund
    • Kingston Technology
  9. Coverage: Pluribus Networks Netvisor & Adaptive Cloud Fabric @ VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra
    • Roger Lund
    • Pluribus Networks
  10. Coverage: NetApp SolidFire HCI – Scale what you want, when you want
    • Mike Preston
    • NetApp, SolidFire
  11. Coverage: Highlights from My First VMworld
    • Becky Elliott
  12. Coverage: Tech Field Day Extra – Kingston Technologies
    • Matt Crape
    • Kingston Technology
  13. Coverage: Kingston’s NVMe Line-up Is The Life Of The Party
    • Dan Frith
    • Kingston Technology
  14. Coverage: Druva Is Useful, And Modern
    • Dan Frith
    • Druva
  15. Coverage: Netapp‘s SolidFire HCI Overview
    • Roger Lund
    • NetApp
  16. Coverage: NVMe to enable truly composable infrastructure?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kingston Technology
  17. Coverage: The Thing About NetApp HCI Is …
    • Dan Frith
    • NetApp
  18. Coverage: Join me at VMworld with Tech Field Day Extra!
    • Sean Thulin
  19. Coverage: VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
    • Networking Field Day 15
    • Keith Townsend
    • VMware by Broadcom
  20. Coverage: Tech Field Day – I’ll Be At TFD Extra at VMworld US 2017
    • Dan Frith

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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