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Tech Field Day 15

L-R: Keith Townsend, Stephen Foskett, Mark May, Matt Crape, Karel Novak, Rachel Traylor, Ian Sanderson, Brandon Carroll, Nikki Schnupp, James Green, Raff Poltronieri, Howard Marks, Paul Woodward

Tech Field Day 15

September 27–September 29, 2017

#TFD15

Who: Tech

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.

Brandon Carroll

@BrandonCarroll

Consulting System Engineer, Instructor, Blogger, and Technology Fan. CCIE #23837.

Dr. Rachel Traylor

@Mathpocalypse

Founder of The Math Citadel, freelance mathematician with research interests in probability theory and reliability theory. Former data scientist.

Howard Marks

@DeepStorageNet

Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ian Sanderson

@Ian0x0r

Product Manager – Data Protection

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.

Karel Novak

@NovakkKarel

Senior Virtual Infrastructure Engineer at ArrowECS Czech Republic

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

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.

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

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, Sep 27 10:00-14:00
Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Wednesday, Sep 27 15:00-17:00 Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Thursday, Sep 28 08:30-10:30 Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Thursday, Sep 28 13:00-15:00 Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Thursday, Sep 28 16:00-18:00 Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Friday, Sep 29 08:00-10:00 Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15
Friday, Sep 29 10:30-12:30 DataCore Presents at Tech Field Day 15
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Nikki Schnupp

@GestaltNikki

Nikki Schnupp provides Event Support for Tech Field Day

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


54 Links with Tag #TFD15

  1. Coverage: Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
    • Cloud Field Day 3
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio, Delphix
  2. Coverage: Looking Through the (Cloud)Lense with Ixia
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
    • Ixia
  3. Coverage: Still Backhauling All Internet-Bound Traffic To Your Data Center?
    • Networking Field Day 11
    • James Green
    • Riverbed, Silver Peak
  4. Coverage: Moving Beyond Backups to Enterprise-Data-as-a-Service
    • James Green
    • Actifio
  5. Coverage: Simplify Remote Offices
    • Mark May
    • Riverbed
  6. Coverage: Riverbed Steel Fusion: A New Approach to Remote Office Infrastructure
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
    • Riverbed
  7. Coverage: Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • Ixia
  8. Coverage: That’s a Wrap: An ExploreVM Look Back at 2017
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
    • Tech Field Day
  9. Coverage: 2017 – A Personal Reflection
    • Tech Field Day 14, Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2017
    • Matt Crape
  10. Coverage: Enterprise Data as a Service (DaaS): the new paradigm of Actifio
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Actifio
  11. Coverage: Ixia CloudLens to dive in the public cloud traffic
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Ixia
  12. Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 @Riverbed (#TFD15) (with images, tweets)
    • Riverbed
  13. Coverage: How to quickly deploy Riverbed’s Xirrus wireless solution
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Riverbed
  14. Coverage: Google Cloud nested virtualization popularizes the technology
    • Mark May
    • Scale Computing
  15. Coverage: Commentary: Infrastructure Considerations for Machine Learning
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • Actifio
  16. Coverage: DataCore Divides & Conquers to Increase SQL Server Performance
    • Matt Crape
    • DataCore Software
  17. Coverage: Riverbed’s Xirrus offers more than just connectivity
    • Matt Crape
    • Riverbed, Xirrus
  18. Coverage: Taking Complexity Out of the Distributed Enterprise—Tech Field Day 15
    • Riverbed
  19. Coverage: Why the hybrid IT control plane is destined for the public cloud
    • Keith Townsend
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp, Nirmata, Platform9 Systems, Skyport Systems
  20. Coverage: How to deploy SkySecure hyperconverged infrastructure
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Skyport Systems
  21. Coverage: Datacore Tech Field Day 15 Reap
    • Keith Townsend
    • DataCore Software
  22. Coverage: Riverbed Tech Field Day 15 Recap
    • Keith Townsend
    • Riverbed
  23. Coverage: Actifio Tech Field Day 15 Recap
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio
  24. Coverage: Scale Computing Tech Field Day 15 Recap
    • Keith Townsend
    • Scale Computing
  25. Coverage: Ixia Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
    • Keith Townsend
    • Ixia
  26. Coverage: Skyport Tech Field Day 15 Recap – YouTube
    • Keith Townsend
    • Skyport Systems
  27. Coverage: Cisco Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
    • Keith Townsend
    • Cisco
  28. Coverage: Scale Computing HC3 Cloud Unity – Whats that about then?
    • Ian Sanderson
    • Scale Computing
  29. Coverage: Spartans and Servers and Storage, Oh My!
    • James Green
    • DataCore Software
  30. Coverage: Scale Computing is Simplifying DRaaS
    • Matt Crape
    • Scale Computing
  31. Coverage: DataCore MaxParallel for SQL Server – Whats that about then?
    • Ian Sanderson
    • DataCore Software
  32. Coverage: Commentary: High Level Data Filtration
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • Ixia
  33. Coverage: A Thank You to Tech Field Day
    • Paul L. Woodward Jr
  34. Coverage: Inefficiencies of large systems
    • Keith Townsend
    • DataCore Software
  35. Coverage: How to get started with OpenConfig and YANG models
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Cisco
  36. Coverage: Security From The Ground Up With Skyport Systems
    • Matt Crape
    • Skyport Systems
  37. Coverage: Scale Computing Debuts HC3 in Google Cloud Platform
    • Chris M Evans
    • Scale Computing
  38. Coverage: How to Build a Datacenter with Skyport Systems
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Skyport Systems
  39. Coverage: 3 things infrastructure pros need to know about nested virtualization on Google Cloud
    • Keith Townsend
    • Google Cloud, Oracle, Scale Computing
  40. Coverage: Cisco Gives SP Customers Programability Features in IOS-XR
    • Brandon Carroll
    • Cisco
  41. Coverage: Commentary: Returning to Fundamentals in Tech
    • Dr. Rachel Traylor
    • Skyport Systems
  42. Coverage: Meeting of the Tech Minds – Tech Field Day at Riverbed
    • Riverbed
  43. Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
    • Keith Townsend
    • Ixia
  44. Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Skyport Systems
    • Matt Crape
    • Skyport Systems
  45. Coverage: Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
    • Keith Townsend
    • DataCore Software
  46. Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
    • Keith Townsend
    • Skyport Systems
  47. Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Scale Computing
    • Matt Crape
    • Scale Computing
  48. Coverage: Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Keith Townsend
    • Actifio
  49. Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Datacore
    • Matt Crape
    • DataCore Software
  50. Coverage: Actifio, the Swiss Army knife of data
    • Tech Field Day 11
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Actifio
  51. Coverage: A new Tech Field Day is approaching
    • Raff Poltronieri
  52. Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
    • Storage Field Day 5
    • Keith Townsend
    • Scale Computing
  53. Coverage: Ano opět – Tech Field Day 15 – Před odletem
    • Karel Novak
  54. Coverage: TFD15 Tech Field Day 15 – Ermahgerd i’m going!
    • Ian Sanderson

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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