Ben Kepes writes about the differences he saw between NetApp and Rubrik at Cloud Field Day. Ben notes that NetApp has long had financial pressure not to innovate, even if that innovation helps NetApp ensure its long term survival. Now, however, with their acquisition of SolidFire and their appointment of Mark Bregman as CTO, Ben sees NetApp as moving towards a focus on innovation. This is a move in the right direction, but NetApp still might be falling behind its innovative competitors.
NetApp at Cloud Field Day
Theresa Miller was thoroughly impressed by the NetApp team and their passion for technology at Cloud Field Day. She points out that NetApp has long been a storage giant, but this passion for technology makes it clear that they plan to be a player in the growing cloud market. They already manage over 240 petabytes of cloud data today, along with offering tools like AltaVault, NetApp CloudSync, and ONTAP, so Theresa is anticipating good things to come in NetApp’s future.
HPE Built Another Cloud – Storage This Time
Eric Shanks gives the pros and cons of HPE’s Nimble Cloud Volumes presented at Cloud Field Day. He is optimistic that this will be familiar to many data center administrators, but worried about the lack of APIs and availability given there are only two Nimble Cloud Volumes data centers. Either way, Eric is interested that HPE has taken this approach and expects them to do well with this product in the short run.
The commercial benefits of saying it clearly…
After Cloud Field Day, Ben Kepes argues that companies need to clearly articulate what they do. He says that too often, useful and innovative products are overlooked because their creators cannot clearly explain their purpose. This means that the wrong products are getting commercial success. He concludes by saying, “if you can’t articulate what you do in a way that a 50-year old steelworker from the Midwest can understand, best you rethink what you’re doing.”
What’s Worth Interrupting Shark week? CFD2
Eric Shanks comically reflects on his time at Cloud Field Day, claiming that the trip was worth missing Shark Week. He talks about how Field Day events work and his experience, but also about the real value of these events. Outside of sessions, he finds talking to the other delegates who have different skill sets and are from different places to be the most rewarding part of Field Day events.
Kicking off Cloud Field Day 2
Tim Crawford is looking forward to Cloud Field Day. In this post, he gives a rundown of the presenters, many of which he is familiar with, but some not so much. Tim is always on the lookout for “new, disruptive companies” and hopes to find something new at Cloud Field Day, which he will be tweeting about using the hashtag #CFD2.
Welcome to Cloud Field Day 2
Eric Shanks is excited to be attending Cloud Field Day in Silicon Valley. Here he lists the presenting companies, lays out the schedule, and relays the delegate list and their respective Twitter handles. He will be sure to post follow-ups post-event on several presenters.
Orchestrating Containers with Nirmata
After Cloud Field Day, Eric Shanks reports that Nirmata’s “value proposition is to make managing and deploying container applications on Kubernetes clusters easier.” He says that Nirmata allows the management of multiple Kubernete clusters in different cloud providers with a single orchestration layer, also reporting that their solution was easy to set up and has a clean, visible console.
Nirmata is the cross-cloud orchestrator of orchestrators
After Cloud Field Day, Joep Piscaer calls Nirmata the “cross cloud orchestrator of orchestrators,” describing their approach to cloud management as “clean, simple and well thought out.” He also compliments their application modeling feature which enables cross-cloud migrations and deployment saying that with the right engineering effort, it could become one of Nirmata’s truly differentiating features.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Scality
Julian Wood is interested in hearing more about Scality at the upcoming Cloud Field Day. Here he overviews the company before discussing Zenko, Scality’s open source mulit-cloud controller. He also looks forward to hearing more about how Scality sees the growth and use case of non public cloud object storage.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Platform9
Julian Wood introduces Platform9, a regular Field Day event presenter returning for Cloud Field Day this month. First, he outlines their past products before moving into what he is most interested in hearing more about, Open Source and Serverless.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Rubrik
Here is Julian Wood’s Cloud Field Day preview for Rubrik. Here he talks cloud instantiation for app mobility, Rubrik’s RESTful API, and more.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: HPE Nimble Storage
As Cloud Field Day approaches, Julian Wood talks HPE Nimble Storage. He is especially interested on what Nimble Storage has been up to since their acquisition and how it relates to cloud.
Heading to Cloud Field Days (2) next week
Ben Kepes is looking forward to a different kind of conference, Cloud Field Day! Here, he explains the event, goes over each presenter, and gives his opinion on what they have been up to in the cloud field.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: Gigamon
Julian Wood is looking forward to hearing from Gigamon at Cloud Field Day. Here, he overviews Gigamon’s history and products, but is more interested in what Gigamon will do moving forward, especially as it relates to public cloud.
CFD2 Prep: Nirmata
Justin Warren has some questions that he would like to discuss with Nirmata at Cloud Field Day next week. He looks forward to figuring out Nirmata in order to better understand their products and goals.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: ServiceNow
Julian Wood says ServiceNow is “trying to take traditional enterprise IT Service Management to the next level” in this preview article for their Cloud Field Day presentation. Julian is very interested in ServiceNow providing multi-cloud service management and hopes to hear more at Cloud Field Day.
CFD2 Prep: Accelerite
Getting ready for Cloud Field Day, Justin Warren introduces Accelerite. He focusses on Accelerite’s Rovius and is especially curious about its hybrid nature. Justin is looking forward to what Accelerite has to offer and what they focus on at Cloud Field Day.
Cloud Field Day 2 Preview: NetApp
Julian Wood previews NetApp in preparation for their Cloud Field Day presentation. He gives a quick history and talks about NetApp’s expansion into cloud. He is interested to see what the storage giant will offer in the cloud realm.
Cloud Field Day 2 – First Time Caller
Bryan Krausen is thrilled to be attending Cloud Field Day event this month. In this post, he expresses his excitement to be a delegate, lists the presenting companies, and talks about the logistics of the event.
