Keith Townsend, The CTO Advisor, analyzes the Pure Storage announcement of support for Intel Optane Persistent Memory in their FlashArray storage during Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2019.
Gearing Up for Commvault GO 2019
What surprises await us at the crossroads of storage and data management? Markus Leinonen shares his take on what he expects to see during Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO in Denver. After Commvault recently revealed that they’ve just sealed the deal to acquire storage company, Hedvig, everyone is on pins and needles waiting to hear about new developments.
It’s a Go for Commvault GO!
As an independent industry analyst, Karen Lopez was invited again to attend Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver. This is her second time at this event and she’s looking forward to chatting with project teams about what they’ve accomplished in the last year. As a Data Evangelist with a focus on data quality and data protection, she’s going to be looking at topics that helps her love data better.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Stefan Fouant
If you saw a new face around the delegate table at Networking Field Day, it might have been Stefan Fouant! While new as a Field Day delegate, Stefan shared a lot about his background and perspective on IT in this interview with Gestalt IT. Be sure to check it out.
Architecture, Governance and Multi-Cloud: Takeaways From TFDx at VMworld
Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld had a lot of great technical deep dive content. There was also a great Cloud Roundtable discussion, which we were fortunate to have Adam Post participate in. Be sure to check out this post with his takeaways from the talk.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Jeremy Schulman
Our super sized Networking Field Day had a lot of new faces at it, including Jeremy Schulman. While a first time delegate, Jeremy has had some experience on the other side of the table, so we can’t wait to see what he thought of the event. Be sure to check out this interview with Gestalt IT to get more background on what Jeremy is up to and where he sees IT going.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Micheline Murphy
Micheline Murphy recently did an interview with Gestalt IT, giving her background and thoughts on IT. Be sure to check it out before seeing Micheline around the delegate table at Networking Field Day. As a first time delegate at the event, we can’t wait to hear what she thought of the Field Day experience, and what presentations she enjoyed seeing at the event.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Scott Morris
We love having new delegates at Field Day events to keep the perspectives fresh and the voices vital to the conversation. Scott Morris was one of the new faces at Networking Field Day, and in this interview with Gestalt IT, he gives a little background on his context and background in IT, and where he sees it going.
NetApp Cloud Insights: Visibility of Everything for Everyone
To provide a complete picture of infrastructure usage and offer optimization recommendations regardless of location be it private, public, or hybrid cloud, NetApp has recently released Cloud Insights. During his presentation at Tech Field Day 19, James Holden, director of NetApp’s cloud analytics team, provided both an overview of and deep dive into the features and functionality of Cloud Insights.
Cloud Is Hard. Kubernetes Won’t Save You
Public cloud providers and enterprise IT vendors alike position Kubernetes as the control plane for cloud-native applications. They promise an application environment that will run on any public or private cloud, reducing cloud lock-in and enabling hybrid and multi-cloud designs. Drew Conry-Murray breaks down the promise and challenge of Kubernetes in this post, inspired from the VMworld Cloud Roundtable.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Remington Loose
Networking Field Day was the first event Remington Loose attended as a delegate. If you haven’t already seen him around the table, be sure to checkout this interview he did with Gestalt IT. He goes over how he got into IT, where it’s going, and gets into his perspective on tech. It’s an interesting read and some valuable context.
VMworld Cloud Roundtable Discussion
At VMworld, Christopher Kusek participated in a roundtable discussion with some fellow visionaries of Cloud Architecture. They discussed the past, present, and future of Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure. This conversation highlighted a bright future for cloud, multi-cloud, security, and containers.
Meet Field Day Delegate – A.J. Murray
A.J. Murray is one of the new delegates that will be attending Networking Field Day in October. We’re always excited to have new voices and perspectives around the table. Before you see him there, be sure to check out this interview he did with Gestalt IT to get to know his background a little better.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Josh Warcop
Josh Warcop is one of the new faces we’ll be seeing around the delegate table for Networking Field Day. Before that, be sure to get to know him a little better with this interview from Gestalt IT.
The Unconscious Choice for Multi-Cloud
Ownership of application and cloud architecture is constantly shifting and is becoming a shared responsibility of business, operations, developers, architects, and security. If you don’t guide the process of cloud consumption within your organization, you’ll end up with a disjointed multi-cloud. In other words: many different disconnected islands, each with incomplete, badly implemented, unaudited security and compliance standards. Joep Piscaer digs into the details in this piece.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Williams – Gestalt IT
We’ve got a number of new faces joining us at Chris Williams. Before you watch the live stream of all the presentations, read this interview from Gestalt IT to get to know one of the new delegates. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event!
Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
Ken Nalbone and Stephen Foskett live-blogged the Pure Accelerate 2019 keynote. This is day 2, featuring Leland Melvin and James Governor.
Stopping Security Silos With Palo Alto Networks Cortex
Security silos can make us miss the important things. Tom Hollingsworth heard from Palo Alto Network at Security Field Day and looks at Cortex and how it can help us get better results from our data without the silos getting in the way.
Pure Accelerate 2019 Day 1 Keynote Liveblog
Stephen Foskett live blogged day one of the Pure Accelerate keynote. Be sure to check out all the latest announcements, then dig into our presentations from Tech Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate.
IBM’s New Class of Data Protection: Upcycling of the IT World?
As discussed at Storage Field Day in February, the idea of reusing and repurposing stored data makes sense from both a business intelligence perspective and from a cyber-resiliency standpoint. IBM’s solution is based on a solid foundation with years of enterprise use, and enhances the snapshot capabilities already found in most enterprise storage systems. Stephen Foskett looks at how Spectrum Protect Plus really moves IBM’s data protection offering forward, “upcycling” data for the enterprise.