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As a long-time delegate, Keith has participated in over 35 Field Day Events. He has participated in Cloud, Data Center, Networking, AI, and Storage events. With over 25 years of experience advising, managing, and designing enterprise architecture, Keith brings a unique IT decision-maker lens to Field Day events.






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  1. Unlocking AI Potential: Insights Into Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform
  2. Does Storage Matter in AI Inferencing? What About the SSD?
  3. Defeating Data Gravity? – Hammerspace
  4. Cloud Field Day – Infrastructure Matters on the Road
  5. Taking Private Cloud to the Next Level
  6. Do Processors Matter in the Cloud?
  7. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  8. VMware Cross-Cloud: Is It a Viable Path Post Broadcom?
  9. Navigating Multicloud Security Challenges: A Deep Dive Into Prosimo’s Approach
  10. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  11. Private Data Centers vs. Public Cloud: Can Apstra Automation Bridge the Gap?
  12. 155: GreyBeards SDC23 Wrap Up Podcast With Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. Of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD
  13. Cloud Adjacent vs. Native Cloud Services
  14. Hybrid Infrastructure Is an Operating Model
  15. Infrastructure as Code Is … Code
  16. Solving the Cloud Skills Shortage
  17. The Future of the Data Center Control Plane Is in the Public Cloud
  18. Juniper Powered by MIST AI – This Stuff Is Hard
  19. 118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
  20. CTOA Briefing – Storpool
  21. NetApp Data Science Toolkit
  22. Will the DPU Kill the Storage Array?
  23. Cloud Application Mobility – The Hard Way
  24. HPE vs Dell Cloud Stories – Who’s Winning?
  25. Dell EMC PowerStore: TFDx Quick Take
  26. OpenShift TFDx Hot Take – What’s the Tipping Point for K8s?
  27. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – Should Customers Wait?
  28. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – CTO Advisor Episode 118
  29. Hot Take Zerto 8.0 Tech Field Day 21
  30. Google Cloud VMware Engine – Hot Take
  31. vSphere Kubernetes Hot Take
  32. Dell Technologies PowerOne – Dell’s Private Cloud?
  33. Kubernetes and Traffic Lights
  34. Talent Is Heavier Than Data
  35. 91: Keith and Ray Show at CommvaultGO 2019
  36. Commvault Activate – CommvaultGo 2019
  37. Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere – The Future of IT
  38. Master’s Lesson in IT Management
  39. CommvaultGo 2019 Hot Take
  40. Pure Accelerate: Cloud Block Service
  41. Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
  42. VMware’s Cloud in 300-Words
  43. Dell Tech Cloud CFD6 – Hot Take
  44. Pure Accelerate FlashArray
  45. Lucid Link CFD6 – Hot Take
  46. NetApp CFD6 – Hot Take
  47. EXTRAHOP CFD6 Hot Take
  48. HashiCorp CFD6 Hot Take
  49. Morpheus Data CFD6 – Hot Take
  50. 89: Keith & Ray Show at Pure//Accelerate 2019
  51. Hammerspace CFD6 – Hot Take
  52. The Campus and Cloud-First
  53. Intel Answering SAP HANA’s Tough Questions
  54. Intel Data Centric Business Overview
  55. Meet Field Day Delegate – Keith Townsend
  56. Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
  57. Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
  58. Modern Data Protection Summary
  59. Musing: The Short Life of Influencers — EtherealMind
  60. Is Oracle Cloud an alternative to AWS?
  61. Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
  62. Rubrik – A metadata company in backup company’s clothing
  63. Cloud Field Day Interview: Nick Janetakis
  64. Serverless computing highlights new security challenges in hybrid IT
  65. Cloud Field Day 3 Preview – Data Protection
  66. NetApp Data Fabric Cloud Field Day 3 Preview
  67. Mitigating the risk of Cloud Lift & Shift
  68. An update on Oracle’s Cloud
  69. HCI/Not HCI – It doesn’t matter
  70. Storage is boring
  71. Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
  72. Solarwinds Orion Integration
  73. Converged Infrastructure died a long time ago, right?
  74. Are network vendors ignoring serverless security?
  75. CTO Advisor 068: Commvault HyperScale
  76. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  77. CTO Advisor 067: Should you worry about GDPR?
  78. Should you worry about GDPR?
  79. Don’t call it back up
  80. On-premises Serverless with Docker via OpenFaaS
  81. DockerCon 2017 EU – Docker integrates Kubernetes and Swarm
  82. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  83. Understanding Serverless Computing
  84. Why the hybrid IT control plane is destined for the public cloud
  85. Datacore Tech Field Day 15 Reap
  86. Riverbed Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  87. Actifio Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  88. Scale Computing Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  89. Ixia Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  90. Skyport Tech Field Day 15 Recap – YouTube
  91. Cisco Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  92. Inefficiencies of large systems
  93. 3 things infrastructure pros need to know about nested virtualization on Google Cloud
  94. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
  95. Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
  96. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
  97. Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
  98. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
  99. NVMe to enable truly composable infrastructure?
  100. VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
  101. Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
  102. Network as a Service provider TeloIP
  103. 3 Linux Foundation networking projects that your business needs to know
  104. [Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview
  105. IP Infusion: Network Field Day 15 Preview
  106. Ah… NSX, We Meet Again.
  107. Barefoot Networks looks to redefine ASIC in network device design with its Tofino chip
  108. How Intel’s open source Data Plane Development Kit enables high-performance Linux networking
  109. Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
  110. Simplifying Private Cloud – Easier said…
  111. Cirba – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  112. ZeroStack – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  113. FalconStor – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  114. 3 must-watch startups from VMware alum
  115. The potential of microservices within the data center
  116. TechTalk 9: Copy data solutions
  117. Hyperconverged vendor Maxta announces SDN partnership
  118. Is Data Virtualization the Future of Enterprise Storage?
  119. CopyData yeah… Long live Data Virtualization
  120. [Video] Storage Field Day 7 Review
  121. VMware – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  122. Transporter – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  123. Springpath – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  124. Primary Data – Storage Field Day 7
  125. Maxta – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  126. Kaminario – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  127. Exablox – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  128. Cloudian – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  129. Catalogic Software – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  130. Hyper-converged systems: What you need to know about this hot virtualization topic
  131. Why should CIO’s and business leaders care about Software Defined Networking
  132. What’s is Software Defined Storage – Techtalk 42
  133. Why abstraction (software-defined) is important – TechTalk 40
  134. Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence
  135. Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
  136. Is the software defined data center a VMware only concept?
  137. Dispelling the FUD around iSCSI
  138. SDDC is a little less than Vaporware
  139. The importance of the control plane in SDDC
  140. EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN
  141. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
  142. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium

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