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Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
August 27–29, 2018
#EVMWU18, #VMworldUS18
Who: Cloud, Networking, Storage, Tech, Virtualization
What: Extra, VMworld
When: Past
Location: Las Vegas

For Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld, we have four different delegate panels, one per half-day session.

Monday Afternoon Tuesday Morning Tuesday Afternoon Wednesday Afternoon
Presenting Companies

  • StorageCraft
  • NetApp

Delegate Panel

  • Al Rasheed
  • Ather Beg
  • Christopher Kusek
  • Howard Marks
  • Keith Ward
  • Ken Nalbone
  • Marco Broeken
  • Mariusz Kaczorek
  • Mark May
  • Theresa Miller
  • Tony Reeves
Presenting Companies

  • Dell EMC

Delegate Panel

  • Adam Fisher
  • Ather Beg
  • Brandon Graves
  • John Marrone
  • Howard Marks
  • Mariusz Kaczorek
  • Paul Woodward
  • Raff Poltronieri
  • Stephen Beaver
  • Tony Reeves
Presenting Companies

  • JetStream Software
  • Quali
  • Runecast

Delegate Panel

  • Gabe Maentz
  • Joe Houghes
  • Ken Nalbone
  • Matthew Allford
  • Matthew Leib
  • Michelle Laverick
  • Paul Woodward
  • Raff Poltronieri
  • Rita Younger
  • Roger Lund
Presenting Companies

  • Blue Medora
  • NetScout
  • Barefoot Networks

Delegate Panel

  • Alastair Cooke
  • Ather Beg
  • Brandon Graves
  • Christopher Kusek
  • Ed Horley
  • Edward Haletky
  • G. Michael Bridge
  • Joep Piscaer
  • John Marrone
  • Kori Younger
  • Mark May
  • Marco Broeken
  • Mikael Korsgaard Jensen
  • Rita Younger

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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.

Adam Fisher

@BonzoVT

Technical Solutions Architect @ WWT | www.virtualbonzo.com | @bonzovt on Twitter

Al Rasheed

@Al_Rasheed

Systems Administrator | DC VMUG Co-Leader | VMware vExpert

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

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

Ather Beg

@AtherBeg

Enterprise Solutions Architect @Rackspace | VCIX6/VCAP5-DCD/DCA | AWS SA Pro | Tech Enthusiast | Blogger | @OpenTechCast Host | #vExpert x9, #Cloud, #NSX, #HCX

Brandon Graves

@BrandonGraves08

Brandon Graves is a Storage and Virtualization Engineer with over 10 years in enterprise experience.

Christopher Kusek

@cxi

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

Ed Horley

@EHorley

20 years in tech, “Crazy IPv6 dude”, co-chair California IPv6 Task Force, author (Apress and Pluralsight), blogger and occasional speaker

Edward Haletky

@Texiwill

Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an analyst, author, architect, technologist, and out-of-the-box thinker.

G. Michael Bridge

@MikeBridge

System administrator working with Windows server, EMC & Nimble SAN, VMware ESXi cluster, and desktop infrastructures across multiple facilities in the United States and Canada.

Gabe Maentz

@GMaentz

Consultant, Dad of 4, Marquette alum, Life-Long Learner, vExpert, vBrisket Founder

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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.

Joe Houghes

@JHoughes

The Full Stack Geek with the big grin

Joep Piscaer

@JPiscaer

Founder of TLA Tech, a tech marketing firm focusing on cloud-native. Co-hosts TheCUBE sometimes. Blogs at VirtualLifestyle.nl

John Marrone

@JJMarrone

Director of Product Development – DC and Cloud

Keith Ward

@KeithWardWrite

Keith Ward is a veteran technology journalist covering the IT space for over 17 years.

Ken Nalbone

@KenNalbone

Specialist Engineer. Tech Community Leader. Loves to geek out about tech and food!

Kori Younger

@CyberKori

Industrial Networking, Security, Wireless and all of the “things”.

Marco Broeken

@MBroeken

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

Mariusz Kaczorek

@Settlersoman

IT Architect with passion for Virtualization and Storage Solutions.

Mark May

@CincyStorage

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

Matthew Allford

@MattAllford

Matt is an an IT professional based in Tasmania, Australia with a strong interest in datacentre technologies, proactiveness and automation.

Matthew Leib

@MBLeib

Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.

Michelle Laverick

@M_Laverick

Instructor, Public Speaker, Blogger, Podcaster, Author, Journalist and stint on the vendorland, Michelle has been a long-term contributor to the IT community, but rather baulks at the idea of being referred to as a “veteran”

Mikael Korsgaard Jensen

@Jekomi

Working at Kamstrup as Senior Technology Architect Virtualization

Paul L. Woodward Jr

@ExploreVM

I am a Systems Engineer with a focus on data center technologies. My passion is virtualization and performing amazing feats of technology!

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

Rita Younger

@SDN_Girl

Rita has been a network engineer and architect for over 28 years and encourages women and minorities to join her using her personal platform TotalPackets.com.

Roger Lund

@RogerLund

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

Stephen Beaver

@SBeaver

Stephen Beaver is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration.

Theresa Miller

@24x7ITConnect

Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), MBA and Microsoft Exchange geek. Enjoying blogging and technical speaking.

Tony Reeves

@ImportCarGuy

Network Administrator | VCP 5,6,6.5-DCV | 2x VMware vExpert 2x vExpert vSAN | Wisconsin VMUG Steering Committee Member

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.

Monday, Aug 27 13:00 - 14:00
StorageCraft Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Junior Silva, Shridar Subramanian
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Ather Beg, Christopher Kusek, Howard Marks, Keith Ward, Ken Nalbone, Marco Broeken, Mariusz Kaczorek, Mark May, Theresa Miller
Monday, Aug 27 14:30 - 15:30
NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Chris Gebhardt, Glenn Sizemore
Delegate Panel: Al Rasheed, Christopher Kusek, Howard Marks, Keith Ward, Ken Nalbone, Marco Broeken, Mariusz Kaczorek, Mark May, Theresa Miller
Tuesday, Aug 28 10:00 - 12:00
Dell EMC Data Protection Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Colin Durocher, Levi Spears, Rangaraaj Rajagopalan
Delegate Panel: Adam Fisher, Ather Beg, Brandon Graves, Howard Marks, James Green, John Marrone, Mariusz Kaczorek, Paul Woodward, Raff Poltronieri, Tony Reeves
Tuesday, Aug 28 13:00 - 14:00
JetStream Software Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Rich Petersen, Serge Shats
Delegate Panel: Gabe Maentz, Joe Houghes, Ken Nalbone, Matthew Allford, Matthew Leib, Michelle Laverick, Paul Woodward, Rita Younger, Roger Lund
Tuesday, Aug 28 14:30 - 15:30
Quali Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Roni Dover, Shashi Kiran
Delegate Panel: Gabe Maentz, Joe Houghes, Ken Nalbone, Matthew Allford, Matthew Leib, Michelle Laverick, Paul Woodward, Rita Younger, Roger Lund
Tuesday, Aug 28 16:00 - 17:00
Runecast Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Aylin Sali, Stanimir Markov
Delegate Panel: Gabe Maentz, Joe Houghes, Ken Nalbone, Matthew Allford, Matthew Leib, Michelle Laverick, Paul Woodward, Rita Younger, Roger Lund
Wednesday, Aug 29 13:00 - 14:00
Blue Medora Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Craig Lee, Mike Kelly
Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Ather Beg, Brandon Graves, Ed Horley, Edward Haletky, Joep Piscaer, John Marrone, Marco Broeken, Mikael Korsgaard Jensen, Rita Younger
Wednesday, Aug 29 14:30-15:30
NetScout Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Ray Krug
Delegate Panel: Alastair Cooke, Ather Beg, Brandon Graves, Christopher Kusek, Ed Horley, Joep Piscaer, John Marrone, Marco Broeken, Rita Younger
Wednesday, Aug 29 16:00-17:00
Barefoot Networks Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018
Presenters: Ed Doe, Roberto Mari
Delegate Panel: Ather Beg, Brandon Graves, Christopher Kusek, Ed Horley, G. Michael Bridge, Joep Piscaer, Kori Younger, Mark May, Rita Younger
All dates and times listed are local time in Las Vegas, US/Pacific.

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 #EVMWU18, #VMworldUS18

  1. Tech Field Day at VMworld: Why Metric Collection Matters
    • Blue Medora
  2. Netscout, Smart Network Analytics
    • Rita Younger
    • NetScout
  3. 76: GreyBeards talk backup content, GDPR and cyber security with Jim McGann, VP Mkt & Bus. Dev., Index Engines
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • Index Engines
  4. 71: GreyBeards talk DP appliances with Sharad Rastogi, Sr. VP & Ranga Rajagopalan, Sr. Dir., Dell EMC DPD
    • Howard Marks, Ray Lucchesi
    • Dell EMC
  5. Live at VMworld Europe 2018: An Update on VMware Strategy and Vision, or VMware is Cool Again
    • Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight 2018
    • Max Mortillaro
    • NetApp, VMware
  6. Tech Field Day Extra VMworld 2018 – Runecast
    • Matthew Allford
    • Runecast
  7. Tech Field Day Extra VMworld 2018 – Jetstream Software
    • Matthew Allford
    • JetStream Software
  8. Monitoring Data Translation As a Service – Blue Medora
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Blue Medora
  9. Tech Field Day Extra VMworld 2018 – JetStream Software
    • Joe Houghes
    • JetStream Software
  10. The #vCommunity
    • Al Rasheed
    • Tech Field Day
  11. StorageCraft and The Sub-Second Recovery
    • Ather Beg
    • StorageCraft
  12. Managing VMware Proactively with Runecast
    • Gabe Maentz
    • Runecast
  13. RuneCast presents @ #TFDx VMworld 2018
    • Matthew Leib
    • Runecast
  14. Dell EMC Data Protection for vCloud Director – A Seamless Approach
    • John Marrone
  15. A Matter of Perspective
    • Cloud Field Day 4, Mobility Field Day 3, Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2018
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Arista Networks, Aviatrix Systems
  16. Barefoot Networks and Fully Programmable Switches
    • David Davis
    • Barefoot Networks
  17. Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018 – My First TFD Event
    • John Marrone
    • Blue Medora, NetScout
  18. My time at VMworld 2018
    • Brandon Graves
  19. Tech Field Day at VMworld (Las Vegas)
    • Al Rasheed
  20. Post VMworld 2018
    • Tony Reeves
  21. Countdown to VMworld
    • Brandon Graves
  22. Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2018
    • Adam Fisher
    • Dell EMC
  23. VMworld 2018 Is Around The Corner
    • Matthew Allford
  24. VMworld 2018 – Where’s Gabe?
    • Gabe Maentz
  25. I’ll be at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2018 and Future:net
    • Ed Horley
  26. 13 Things You Need To Do at VMworld 2018
    • Scott D. Lowe
  27. Why I’m going to VMworld 2018 Las Vegas
    • Marco Broeken

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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