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Tech Field Day 16

L-R: Ben Gage, Raff Poltronieri, John Welsh, Luigi Danakos, Sonia Cuff, Alastair Cooke, Stephen Foskett, James Green, Keith Townsend, Howard Marks, Jon Hildebrand, Andrew Mauro, Edward Haletky, Gabe Maentz

Tech Field Day 16

February 21–February 23, 2018

#TFD16

Who: Tech

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.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Andrea Mauro

@Andrea_Mauro

IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage

Edward Haletky

@Texiwill

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

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.

John Welsh

@SampleFive

Creator and Host of Engineering Deathmatch, Solutions Architect, and CCIE

Jon Hildebrand

@SnoopJ123

Virtualization/Data Center/Cloud/Orchestration/Automation Enthusiast

Keith Townsend

@CTOAdvisor

Global Advisor at the Futurum Group

Luigi Danakos

@NerdBlurt

Community driven Digital Marketing Expert, fascinated by community initiatives around virtualization, cloud computing, and DevOps.

Raff Poltronieri

@RaffaPol

Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker

Sonia Cuff

@SoniaCuff

Experienced Enterprise Systems Administrator & Architect now playing in the SMB space (on premises & Cloud).

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, Feb 21 10:00-12:00
SolarWinds Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Presenters: Brian Radovich, Chris Groot, Chris O'Brien, Joe Kim, Keith Kuchler, Kong Yang, Michael Yang, Patrick Hubbard, Steven Hunt
Wednesday, Feb 21 15:00-17:00
Forcepoint Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Presenters: Antti Kuvaja, David Coffey, Jim Birmingham, Liem Nguyen, Richard Ford, Sarah Vela
Thursday, Feb 22 08:00-10:00
Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Presenters: Jodey Hogeland, Scott Delandy, Todd Toles
Thursday, Feb 22 15:00-17:00
NetApp Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Presenters: Adam Carter, Andy Banta
Friday, Feb 23 10:00-15:00
Dell EMC Servers Presents at Tech Field Day 16
Presenters: Brian Doty, David Schmidt, Doug Iler, Jeremy Erwin, Kevin Noreen, Manoj Malhotra, Paul Rubin, Ray Hebert, Seamus Jones
All dates and times listed are local time in Austin, US/Central.

Event Staff

Ben Gage

@BenTGage

Ben Gage has a professional background which started in logistics and supply chain for manufacturing and agriculture. To subsidize the methodical nature of these fields he started and performs with an original Americana band. With a penchant for the ra …

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


34 Links with Tag #TFD16

  1. Coverage: What Differentiates Servers in a Commodity x86 World?
    • Networking Field Day Exclusive with VMware
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Dell EMC
  2. Coverage: Accessing Security Insights with SolarWinds Network Insight For Cisco ASA
    • Tom Hollingsworth
    • SolarWinds
  3. Coverage: HCI Isn’t the Only Simplified Management
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Dell EMC
  4. Coverage: The case for Cloud Access Security Brokers in small business
    • Sonia Cuff
    • Forcepoint
  5. Coverage: SolarWinds, Not Just On-premises, There Is SaaS Too
    • Tech Field Day 13
    • Alastair Cooke
    • SolarWinds
  6. Coverage: Redfish support for DellEMC PowerEdge
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Dell EMC
  7. Coverage: What is Redfish?
    • Andrea Mauro
    • Dell EMC
  8. Coverage: IT Security Is a People Problem
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Forcepoint
  9. Coverage: Get Excited About Traceroute!
    • John Welsh
    • SolarWinds
  10. Coverage: Stop User Behavior from killing your data
    • Luigi Danakos
    • Forcepoint
  11. Coverage: Security by Behavior
    • John Welsh
    • Forcepoint
  12. Coverage: Serverless computing highlights new security challenges in hybrid IT
    • Keith Townsend
    • Forcepoint
  13. Coverage: What’s really define an HCI solution?
    • Andrea Mauro
    • NetApp
  14. Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: NetApp
    • Cloud Field Day 3, Storage Field Day 15
    • Chris M Evans
    • NetApp
  15. Coverage: The True Meaning of HyperConverged
    • Alastair Cooke
    • NetApp
  16. Coverage: The Yin Yang of Dell EMC Storage
    • Jon Hildebrand
    • Dell EMC
  17. Coverage: Tech Field Day 16: Comparing Three HCI Architectures
    • NetApp
  18. Coverage: Managing Servers in a Serverless World
    • Gabe Maentz
    • Dell EMC
  19. Coverage: Security has Failed, Analytics to the Rescue
    • Gabe Maentz
    • Forcepoint
  20. Coverage: HCI/Not HCI – It doesn’t matter
    • Keith Townsend
    • NetApp
  21. Coverage: Adding More (Red)Fish to Your Diet
    • Jon Hildebrand
    • Dell EMC
  22. Coverage: Security has failed! Forcepoint has not.
    • Raff Poltronieri
    • Forcepoint
  23. Coverage: Data In The Context of Digital Transformation
    • James Green
    • SolarWinds
  24. Coverage: Storage is boring
    • Keith Townsend, Luigi Danakos
    • Dell EMC
  25. Coverage: Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
    • Keith Townsend, Sonia Cuff
    • Forcepoint
  26. Coverage: Solarwinds Orion Integration
    • Keith Townsend
    • SolarWinds
  27. Coverage: #TFD16 Wrap Up: How the OpenManage Team Met 12 IT Bloggers…
    • Dell EMC
  28. Coverage: Dell EMC High-End Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 16
    • Dell EMC
  29. Coverage: Security at Scale: User Behavioral Analytics
    • Edward Haletky
    • Forcepoint
  30. Coverage: What to expect from Tech Field Day 16
    • Sonia Cuff
    • Tech Field Day
  31. Coverage: Tech Field Day Culture and Values
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Tech Field Day
  32. Coverage: Converged Infrastructure died a long time ago, right?
    • Keith Townsend
    • Dell EMC
  33. Coverage: Joining the TFD special team, again – TFD16
    • Raff Poltronieri
  34. Coverage: #TFD16 – Tech Field Day 16
    • Andrea Mauro

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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