Scality has forged a strong bond with Cloud Field Day. It looks back at what it presented at Cloud Field day, and how the event helped it shape its products and conversations
Making Your Data Work Hard
Cloud Field Day presenter Qumulo has developed a system that can consolidate a company’s data into a single application. It’s scalable, and works across both on-premise and cloud.
Nothing but the Truths With IP Fabric
Tom Holligsworth event lead for the Tech Field Day events series looks at how IP Fabric bridges the two truths of a network
Meet Field Day Delegate – Frederic Van Haren
Frederic Van Haren, CTO of his own tech company, HighFens Inc has joined as a Tech Field Day delegate. He shares his ideas on the future of tech, and a little more about him
The Truth Will Set You Free With NetBox
Truth is subjective – or at least it is when it comes to Networking, says Tom Hollingsworth. Writing for GestaltIT.com, Tom writes about NetBox and how Networking Field Day sponsor Network to Code is utilizing it. NetBox is a unique solution that helps take the subjectivity out of your network and help establish a single source of truth. Check out Tom’s article and the Network to Code presentations on NetBox on the GestaltIT website!
Delivering End-To-End Visibility and Control to Kubernetes Clusters
During Tech Field Day Virtual with Red Hat we were excited to see the company showcase its Advanced Cluster Management, designed to give end-to-end visibility to Kubernetes clusters on-prem or in the cloud. Red Hat has stated that Kubernetes is to cloud what IP was to networking, what are your thoughts?
NGINX’s Roadmap to the Future Is Paved With Innovations
Tech Field Day Alumni, Nginx was acquired by F5 in 2019, it has experienced a surge in human and monetary capital. This injection of resources has boosted the company into innovating cutting-edge tech developments, and revolutionizing operations in commercial and open source communities. See what they are doing now.
Aruba AIOps – Beating Your Downtime Into Submission
Is downtime costing you more than you think? Using efficient analysis and pulling the right data from artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) applications is essential to driving modern strategic business decisions. More and more, companies look to AIOps to gain a competitive advantage, improve IT performance, and reduce extremely costly downtimes and disruptions. Aruba AI OPs has an elegant solution to downtime woes. It uses secure, anonymized data to decrease downtime for IT operations.
Downtime Costs More Than Money
The cost of downtime is not just financial. Can you risk reputational loss as well? While downtime and data loss may cost companies millions of dollars per incident, 50% of them shut down within a year after a breach. However, now there is a less expensive and more agile solution than on-prem data security, Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service. Georgina Ford, Editor at Gestalt IT, looks at Infrascale’s Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service offering and why it might just save you money.
Ring Around the Datacenter With Airvine
When installing cabling in a modern building, it is usually as easy as making a hole in some drywall, but what if you are in a historical building where walls cannot be damaged or are made of stone or concrete? Enter Airvine! Airvine presented its wireless non-cabled connectivity solution at Network Field Day 23, and Gestalt IT networking expert Tom Hollingsworth took a look at what it was all about.
Defending Layer 7 With FortiWeb, Fortinet’s Web Application Firewall
COVID has meant remote workforces and internet accessible apps and workloads sitting on enterprise networks. So, what is the solution? Fortinet showcased FortiWeb at Cloud Field Day 8. FortiWeb is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that is a key part of Fortinet’s Security Fabric. FortiWeb is designed to sit in front of web applications and APIs on the network, adding another security layer.
SD-IoT With VMware Nyansa
What do analytics have to do with SD-WAN? Simple really. How do you know that your SD-WAN is operating efficiently and effectively if it can’t tell you how it’s doing? Nyansa’s analytics tie in perfectly, giving companies the visibility to ensure that SD-WAN devices are operating correctly with the best possible configurations. Tom Hollingsworth dives into how Nyansa works to improve your network and how it is enhancing and promoting the growth of IoT.
Mist Is the New Edge
Tom Hollingsworth had the chance to see Mist present at Mobility Field Day this past July. He writes that since being acquired by Juniper Networks, both Juniper and Mist have grown and gone through an incredible transformation. That has led to Mist being on the cutting edge of utilizing AI to change the way we do networking. Tom writes that he’s never been so excited to see radical changes coming in the way we network and is looking forward to seeing what Juniper and Mist have up their sleeve next. Check out Tom’s article on GestaltIT.com and all of the Mobility Field Day presentations on our website.
Modernizing AirMagnet With NetAlly
At Mobility Field Day, “The Networking Nerd” Tom Hollingsworth was excited to see that NetAlly has been able to make AirMagnet relevant and new again with their latest update. He writes that they’ve brought AirMagnet back with new features for our modern wireless networks including the ability to import data from AirCheck and EtherScope. Check out Tom’s perspective on GestaltIT.com or the NetAlly presentation highlighting AirMagnet Survey PRO on the Tech Field Day website.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Hildebrandt
Getting a chance to meet new delegates and see them knock it out of the park at events is one of our favorite things at Tech Field Day. We were grateful to have Chris Hildebrandt join us as a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld earlier this month. Writing for GestaltIT, Matt Garvin introduces Chris in this edition of the Meet the Field Day Delegate series. Get to know Chris Hildebrandt a little better by reading his introductory profile on GestaltIT.com!
Converging Conference Communities in the Cloud
In the latest episode of the Gestalt IT Rundown, Stephen Foskett brings on delegate Max Mortillaro to talk about the most recent news from the tech world. They run through a wide variety of topics from Arista Networks acquiring Awake Security, VMware’s partnerships with companies like Pensando in Project Monterey, and recent Tech Field Day events like Networking Field Day and Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020. Check out their analyses of all the recent tech news and much more in the latest Gestalt IT Rundown on GestaltIT.com
Unified Security Theory With Fortinet
Treating wireless and networking separately in terms of security doesn’t really make sense anymore, so why are we doing just that? Tom Hollingsworth has been interacting with Fortinet products for many years, and had the chance to see them present at Mobility Field Day. Fortinet dispenses with the antiquated framework of wireless and networking and works to secure information with their patented ASIC technology. Be sure to check out Fortinet’s presentation and Tom’s take on the practical benefits of their approach on the Gestalt IT website.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Ben Story
We’re deeply excited about our upcoming Networking Field Day and equally excited to announce we will be having a first-time delegate there! Ben Story is a network engineer, 3D printing enthusiast, and music lover. Most importantly, he is excited about the chance to see our presenters at Networking Field Day, and we are too! Be sure to give Ben a follow on Twitter and learn a little more about him on the Gestalt IT website!
Meet Field Day Delegate – Jerod Santo
We recently wrapped on Tech Field Day at NGINX Sprint 2020, which was also the wrap of the first delegate experience for Jerod Santo! Jerod is currently the Managing Editor of Changelog Media and has been writing there since 2013. It was great to have Jerod on board for this unique, live event. If you want to learn a little more about Jerod including his love for trees, check out our post about him! In addition, you can check out Jerod’s work on Tech Field Day at NGINX Sprint 2020 on our website.