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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.
27 Events Attended
7 Field Day Videos
- Ignite Security Field Day – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Automation
- DevSecOps Built Right
- Less AI Chat More Action – AI Field Day 5 Delegate Roundtable Discussion
- Deploying Applications Across Edge Locations with Mako Networks and Avassa
- Delegates Reflect on Edge Computing at Edge Field Day 1
- Does Hardware Matter in the Cloud?
- Intel Cloud Day Cloud Roundtable
114 Links with Tag @DemitasseNZ
- Tech Field Day Podcast: The Network is Finally the Application
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Private Clouds are Coming Back
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Technology Silos Are a Thing of the Past
- Coverage: New Capabilities With Plenty of Citrix Heritage
- Coverage: Qumulo Distributed Global Namespace and Filesystem
- Coverage: Platform9 Delivers On-Premises Private Cloud as a Service
- Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Doesn’t Make App Dev Any Better
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Edge Computing is a Melting Pot of Technology
- Tech Field Day Podcast: There are Too Many Clouds
- Coverage: More than web server certificates, digital identity
- Coverage: Refocusing on Hybrid-Cloud at Cloud Field Day 21
- Coverage: Edgy Hardware Matters – Orange boxes from OnLogic
- Tech Field Day Podcast: You Don’t Need Post-Quantum Crypto Yet
- Coverage: Massively scalable, highly available, applications at the edge with Avassa
- Coverage: GitOps at the VMware Software Defined Edge
- Coverage: Hyperscale AI networks with Arista at AI Field Day
- Coverage: Enfabrica SuperNIC for massive clusters at AI Field Day
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Hardware Still Matters at the Edge
- Coverage: Cisco Ethernet and validated designs at AI Field Day
- Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
- Coverage: Elastic brings Vectors to Semantic Search at AI Field Day 5
- Coverage: Keysight at AI Field Day
- Coverage: Integrail at AI Field Day 5
- Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Solves All Our Problems
- Tech Field Day Podcast: AI as We Know It is Just a Fad
- Coverage: Morpheus Unified Management for Multi-Cloud Platform Choice
- Coverage: Row-Scale On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure From Oxide Computer
- Coverage: Google Delivers Titanium Hardware Offload for Performance
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Everything is the Cloud and The Cloud is Everything
- Tech Field Day Podcast: Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge
- Coverage: At AI Field Day, Qlik Shows AI-Based Analysis Added to Its Platform
- Coverage: Deciding When to Use Intel Xeon CPUs for AI Inference
- Coverage: Hammerspace Shows Storage Acceleration for AI Training
- Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
- Coverage: Gemma and Building Your Own LLM AI
- Coverage: Scale Computing Removes Problems at the Edge
- Coverage: Thousands of Containers Without Kubernetes?
- Coverage: Unraveling the Key Themes of Edge Computing – a Roundtable Discussion
- Coverage: Edge Is Not Just Cloud or Datacenter
- Coverage: Deploying Applications Across Edge Locations With Mako Networks and Avassa
- Coverage: Mako Networks, I Haven’t Heard That Name in Years
- Coverage: The Scale Computing Edge
- Coverage: What Is Your Edge?
- Coverage: VVols, Oh VVols, Wherefore Art Thou VVols?
- Coverage: Multi-Cloud Mobility – MinIO
- Coverage: Faster Reaction Time With Hazelcast
- Coverage: You Can Save Money on Your Insurance, OK Your DR
- Coverage: I Want Network Integration, I’m Not Getting It
- Coverage: Hardware Offloads, Not Everything Is X86
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 7 – Who Will Be Presenting?
- Coverage: Cohesity at Tech Field Day in 2019
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing: Scale Computing Edge Solution
- Coverage: Pure Accelerates With Direct Memory Module
- Coverage: GIT Pure Flash Array//C Returns to the Beginning
- Coverage: Pure Cloud Block Store Available on AWS
- Coverage: All-In Public Cloud for Backup
- Coverage: Computer, Prepare My Report
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 19, Next Week
- Coverage: Guarantees Are Good for Business and Engineering
- Coverage: Monitoring Data Translation As a Service – Blue Medora
- Coverage: HCI Isn’t the Only Simplified Management
- Coverage: SolarWinds, Not Just On-premises, There Is SaaS Too
- Coverage: IT Security Is a People Problem
- Coverage: The True Meaning of HyperConverged
- Coverage: Tech Field Day Culture and Values
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing: Comtrade backup for Nutanix, HYCU
- Coverage: Chat with @RebeccaFitzhugh at #TFD13
- Coverage: An Interview with Josh @EuroBrew at #TFD13
- Coverage: On-Premises Serverless
- Coverage: From the Beginning, Getting Started with SolarWinds
- Coverage: IoT Puts On-Premises Back on the Agenda
- Coverage: Who Is Going to Tech Field Day 13? These People, plus Me.
- Coverage: Future Storage, Flash, and Cloud?
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing: SolarWinds
- Coverage: A Warning in Time – PRTG
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Atlantis Computing
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Scality
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing – NooBaa at TFDx VMworld
- Coverage: Vendor Briefing – Robin Systems
- Coverage: Do You Remember? Persistent Memory
- Coverage: Leverage Your Data Copies
- Coverage: Do You Know What Joe Did Last Summer?
- Coverage: Tech Field Day Standard Disclaimer
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Comtrade
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Netwrix
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Zerto
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Plexistor
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction CloudPhysics
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Actifio
- Coverage: TFD11 Introduction Plexxi
- Coverage: Clone a VM without any IO. Curiouser and curiouser!
- Coverage: A brand new Violin Memory
- Coverage: Kill it with fire, it is a disaster.
- Coverage: Hyperconverge Your Network Too?
- Coverage: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It!
- Coverage: Hyperconverged like you just don’t care
- Coverage: Not quite hyperconverged Backup
- Coverage: Out of Band. When all else fails, no midnight drive
- Coverage: Why document your environment?
- Coverage: DR to the cloud with Zerto
- Coverage: VMworld USA 2014
- Coverage: CloudPhysics, vSphere management by Big Data – An interesting name for an interesting company!
- Coverage: Pure: All Flash for Everyone
- Coverage: Tech Field Day is a community event for the community
- Coverage: AutoLab 1.5 released, vSphere 5.5 and vSAN
- Coverage: Validate your Cloud with Spirent
- Coverage: Virtualization Field Day – Day 0
- Coverage: Getting ready of VFD3
- Coverage: Dell community and VRTX
- Coverage: Infinio use case
- Coverage: Disaster Recovery Compliance
- Coverage: Infinio, cache in your ESXi server for your NFS datastores
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 9 in Austin Texas
- Coverage: Alastair is going to Tech Field Day 9