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Alastair Cooke

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Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge. With a background in hands-on solution building and training delivery, Alastair has been active in the IT infrastructure community and as an industry analyst for over ten years.


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  1. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Has Escaped Your Datacenter Presented by Cisco
  2. Tech Field Day Podcast: Billion-Dollar AI Headlines Obscure Real Business Value
  3. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Needs Resource Efficiency
  4. News: Cutting-Edge AI Networking and Storage Kick Off 2026 at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4
  5. Coverage: Managing Edge AI and Computer Vision at Scale
  6. Coverage: ResOps: The Convergence of Security and Operations
  7. Tech Field Day Podcast: Modern Data Mobility is Challenging the Laws of Physics with Hammerspace
  8. Tech Field Day Podcast: Tech Field Day Takeaways for 2025: Making AI Less Manic
  9. Tech Field Day Podcast: Generative AI Coding Tools Make Enterprise Applications Worse
  10. Coverage: Qlik Answers: Simplifying Data Analysis with Qlik’s AI Assistant
  11. Coverage: What Does It Mean To Bring the Cloud Experience Home?
  12. Coverage: The Attack Surface of Cloud-Based Generative AI Applications is Evolving
  13. Coverage: Commvault Launches AI Powered Cloud Unity Platform – YouTube
  14. Coverage: The Cloud Scout Model Delivers Reliability As An Embedded Capability
  15. Coverage: Cloud Native Doesn’t Have to Mean Cloud-Frustrating
  16. Tech Field Day Podcast: Simplification of IT is Really an Illusion
  17. Coverage: The Cloud Experience is Not a Place
  18. Coverage: Re-Integrating Hardware and Software for On-Premises Hyperscale
  19. Coverage: Fortinet’s Fabric-Based Approach to Cloud Security
  20. Tech Field Day Podcast: Well Managed Kubernetes Means Infrastructure Finally Doesn’t Matter
  21. News: Tech Field Day Returns to KubeCon North America Live from Atlanta!
  22. Coverage: The Enterprise Data Cloud: Pure Storage’s Vision for a Unified Data Plane
  23. Coverage: Conduct your Edge Application Orchestra with Zededa
  24. Tech Field Day Podcast: Private Cloud is Not just Self-Service Virtualization
  25. News: The Evolution of Cloud at Cloud Field Day 24
  26. Tech Field Day Podcast: Your Edge Projects will Fail Without Fleet Lifecycle Management with ZEDEDA
  27. Tech Field Day Podcast: Unified Flash Memory and Reduced HBM are Reshaping AI Training and Inference with Phison
  28. Tech Field Day Podcast: Software is Automating Your AI Data Centre Infrastructure
  29. News: Pushing the Boundaries of AI Performance, Scale, and Innovation at AI Infrastructure Field Day 3
  30. Tech Field Day Podcast: Agentic AI Spells the End of Dial Twiddlers
  31. Coverage: Cloud Consumption in Your Data Center With VCF 9.0
  32. Coverage: Qlik Answers from the New Zealand Government 2025 Budget
  33. Tech Field Day Podcast: Early Adoption of Generative AI Helps Control Costs with Signal65
  34. Tech Field Day Podcast: Datacenter Networking Needs AIOps with HPE Juniper Networks
  35. Coverage: Simplifying Cloud Application Resilience in a Dynamic World
  36. Coverage: Satellite Data’s Journey: How Ring is Helping ESA Manage Petabytes of Information
  37. Coverage: Securing the Future: Juniper’s Approach to AI Data Center Security
  38. Coverage: The Easy On-Ramp to Private AI with Nutanix Enterprise AI
  39. Coverage: SSD Innovation for AI from Solidigm
  40. Tech Field Day Podcast: A Different Type of Datacenter is Needed for AI
  41. Coverage: Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper
  42. Tech Field Day Podcast: Scaling Smarter Optimizes Cloud Costs in the Age of Data Abundance
  43. News: Exploring Cloud Resilience, AI, and Data at Cloud Field Day 23
  44. Coverage: Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud
  45. Tech Field Day Podcast: The Unknown Unknowns of Cloud Providers with Catchpoint
  46. Tech Field Day Podcast: Managing Hybrid Cloud Networks Complexity with Infoblox
  47. Coverage: Key Takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
  48. Coverage: Hybrid Multi-Cloud: Trends and Takeaways
  49. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Needs to Be Boring
  50. Coverage: What it Takes to Power AI at AI Infrastructure Field Day 2
  51. Coverage: You Already Have the Platform and Skills for On-premises AI Applications
  52. Coverage: Key Takeaways on Hybrid Cloud Networking, Security, and Protection from Cloud Field Day 22
  53. Tech Field Day Podcast: Production AI Applications with VMware Private AI on VCF
  54. Tech Field Day Podcast: Hybrid and Multicloud Applications are a Headache
  55. Coverage: We Are Still in the Early Innings of AI
  56. Coverage: Operations, Code or Die
  57. Tech Field Day Podcast: Trade Restrictions will Allow China to Out Innovate US AI Companies
  58. Tech Field Day Podcast: The Network is Finally the Application
  59. News: Tackling Mulit-Cloud Challenges with AI, Security, and Other Innovations at Cloud Field Day 22
  60. Tech Field Day Podcast: Private Clouds are Coming Back
  61. Tech Field Day Podcast: Technology Silos Are a Thing of the Past
  62. Coverage: New Capabilities With Plenty of Citrix Heritage
  63. Coverage: Qumulo Distributed Global Namespace and Filesystem
  64. Coverage: Platform9 Delivers On-Premises Private Cloud as a Service
  65. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Doesn’t Make App Dev Any Better
  66. Tech Field Day Podcast: Edge Computing is a Melting Pot of Technology
  67. Tech Field Day Podcast: There are Too Many Clouds
  68. Coverage: More than web server certificates, digital identity
  69. Coverage: Refocusing on Hybrid-Cloud at Cloud Field Day 21
  70. News: Refocusing on Hybrid-Cloud at Cloud Field Day 21
  71. Coverage: Edgy Hardware Matters – Orange boxes from OnLogic
  72. Tech Field Day Podcast: You Don’t Need Post-Quantum Crypto Yet
  73. News: The Brave New World of Security Field Day 12
  74. Coverage: Massively scalable, highly available, applications at the edge with Avassa
  75. Coverage: GitOps at the VMware Software Defined Edge
  76. Coverage: Hyperscale AI networks with Arista at AI Field Day
  77. Coverage: Enfabrica SuperNIC for massive clusters at AI Field Day
  78. Tech Field Day Podcast: Hardware Still Matters at the Edge
  79. Coverage: Cisco Ethernet and validated designs at AI Field Day
  80. News: Taking Technology to the Edge at Edge Field Day 3
  81. Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
  82. Coverage: Elastic brings Vectors to Semantic Search at AI Field Day 5
  83. Coverage: Keysight at AI Field Day
  84. Coverage: Integrail at AI Field Day 5
  85. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Solves All Our Problems
  86. News: The Shifting Focus of AI at AI Field Day 5
  87. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI as We Know It is Just a Fad
  88. Coverage: Morpheus Unified Management for Multi-Cloud Platform Choice
  89. Coverage: Row-Scale On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure From Oxide Computer
  90. Coverage: Google Delivers Titanium Hardware Offload for Performance
  91. Tech Field Day Podcast: Everything is the Cloud and The Cloud is Everything
  92. Tech Field Day Podcast: Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge
  93. Coverage: At AI Field Day, Qlik Shows AI-Based Analysis Added to Its Platform
  94. Coverage: Deciding When to Use Intel Xeon CPUs for AI Inference
  95. Coverage: Hammerspace Shows Storage Acceleration for AI Training
  96. Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
  97. Coverage: Gemma and Building Your Own LLM AI
  98. Coverage: Scale Computing Removes Problems at the Edge
  99. Coverage: Thousands of Containers Without Kubernetes?
  100. Coverage: Unraveling the Key Themes of Edge Computing – a Roundtable Discussion
  101. Coverage: Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
  102. Coverage: Deploying Applications Across Edge Locations With Mako Networks and Avassa
  103. Coverage: Mako Networks, I Haven’t Heard That Name in Years
  104. Coverage: The Scale Computing Edge
  105. Coverage: What Is Your Edge?
  106. Coverage: VVols, Oh VVols, Wherefore Art Thou VVols?
  107. Coverage: Multi-Cloud Mobility – MinIO
  108. Coverage: Faster Reaction Time With Hazelcast
  109. Coverage: You Can Save Money on Your Insurance, OK Your DR
  110. Coverage: I Want Network Integration, I’m Not Getting It
  111. Coverage: Hardware Offloads, Not Everything Is X86
  112. Coverage: Cloud Field Day 7 – Who Will Be Presenting?
  113. Coverage: Cohesity at Tech Field Day in 2019
  114. Coverage: Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
  115. Coverage: Pure Accelerates With Direct Memory Module
  116. Coverage: GIT Pure Flash Array//C Returns to the Beginning
  117. Coverage: Pure Cloud Block Store Available on AWS
  118. Coverage: All-In Public Cloud for Backup
  119. Coverage: Computer, Prepare My Report
  120. Coverage: Tech Field Day 19, Next Week
  121. Coverage: Guarantees Are Good for Business and Engineering
  122. Coverage: Monitoring Data Translation As a Service – Blue Medora
  123. Coverage: HCI Isn’t the Only Simplified Management
  124. Coverage: SolarWinds, Not Just On-premises, There Is SaaS Too
  125. Coverage: IT Security Is a People Problem
  126. Coverage: The True Meaning of HyperConverged
  127. Coverage: Tech Field Day Culture and Values
  128. Coverage: Vendor Briefing: Comtrade backup for Nutanix, HYCU
  129. Coverage: Chat with @RebeccaFitzhugh at #TFD13
  130. Coverage: An Interview with Josh @EuroBrew at #TFD13
  131. Coverage: On-Premises Serverless
  132. Coverage: From the Beginning, Getting Started with SolarWinds
  133. Coverage: IoT Puts On-Premises Back on the Agenda
  134. Coverage: Who Is Going to Tech Field Day 13? These People, plus Me.
  135. Coverage: Future Storage, Flash, and Cloud?
  136. Coverage: Vendor Briefing: SolarWinds
  137. Coverage: A Warning in Time – PRTG
  138. Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Atlantis Computing
  139. Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Scality
  140. Coverage: Vendor Briefing – NooBaa at TFDx VMworld
  141. Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Robin Systems
  142. Coverage: Do You Remember? Persistent Memory
  143. Coverage: Leverage Your Data Copies
  144. Coverage: Do You Know What Joe Did Last Summer?
  145. Coverage: Tech Field Day Standard Disclaimer
  146. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Comtrade
  147. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Netwrix
  148. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Zerto
  149. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Plexistor
  150. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction CloudPhysics
  151. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Actifio
  152. Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Plexxi
  153. Coverage: Clone a VM without any IO. Curiouser and curiouser!
  154. Coverage: A brand new Violin Memory
  155. Coverage: Kill it with fire, it is a disaster.
  156. Coverage: Hyperconverge Your Network Too?
  157. Coverage: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It!
  158. Coverage: Hyperconverged like you just don’t care
  159. Coverage: Not quite hyperconverged Backup
  160. Coverage: Out of Band. When all else fails, no midnight drive
  161. Coverage: Why document your environment?
  162. Coverage: DR to the cloud with Zerto
  163. Coverage: VMworld USA 2014
  164. Coverage: CloudPhysics, vSphere management by Big Data – An interesting name for an interesting company!
  165. Coverage: Pure: All Flash for Everyone
  166. Coverage: Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
  167. Coverage: AutoLab 1.5 released, vSphere 5.5 and vSAN
  168. Coverage: Validate your Cloud with Spirent
  169. Coverage: Virtualization Field Day – Day 0
  170. Coverage: Getting ready of VFD3
  171. Coverage: Dell community and VRTX
  172. Coverage: Infinio use case
  173. Coverage: Disaster Recovery Compliance
  174. Coverage: Infinio, cache in your ESXi server for your NFS datastores
  175. Coverage: Tech Field Day 9 in Austin Texas
  176. Coverage: Alastair is going to Tech Field Day 9