How can cloud and artificial intelligence combine to make your wireless network more resilient to faults? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how Mist Systems, now a Juniper Networks, is using brand new ideas to solve age-old reliability issues. They presented at Cloud Field Day recently, so Tom got a deep dive at the event. We’re looking forward to seeing them at Mobility Field Day later this year as well!
Meet Field Day Delegate – Scott Driver
New faces make for great Field Day events, whether its new companies presenting or new delegates bring their expertise. Scott Driver is someone we’re thrilled to have at our events. In this post, we get to know him a little better to how he go into IT, his favorite movie, and why he sees IT refocusing on the SMB space in the near future. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Wes Milliron
A new Tech Field Day event means we get to welcome more new delegates to the family. This time around, we invited Wes Milliron to sit around the table and hear from some of the leading IT companies. We got to know Wes a little better in this piece, be sure to check it out and look out for him on the event live stream.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Shaun Bender
Shaun Bender attended Security Field Day, his first time getting the full Field Day experience as a delegate. Drinking from the IT knowledge fire hose can be intense, we can’t wait to hear what he thought of the experience. Be sure to catch all the posted video of the Security Field Day presentations to get up to speed with Shaun.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Michael Davis
We always enjoy having new faces, voices, and perspectives around the delegate tablet for Field Day events. That’s why we’re thrilled to have Michael Davis attending Security Field Day. He’s been working in educational IT for two decades, so we can’t wait to hear his thoughts on the presentation. Be sure to check out this full interview to learn more about Michael.
Make No Mistake, Rubrik Is a Software Company
For Ken Nalbone, Rubrik’s latest Cloud Field Day appearance was all about the software. Whether it’s a deep dive into their Polaris platform or Build, their new open source community, Rubrik is committed to creating a great software product and enabling customers to enable a software focused mindset as well.
The Cohesity Powered Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud has become a reality for enterprise IT and has brought with it complexity and fragmentation. Cohesity believe’s their platform is something of a Swiss Army knife for data, aimed at simplifying data management by providing a unified experience. The company’s growth and progress towards the vision of a hybrid cloud data management platform is getting closer to a reality as the company and product mature. In this post, Ken Nalbone looks at what the company presented at Cloud Field Day and how it fits into their overall vision.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Evan Mintzer
Evan Mintzer is coming to Security Field Day, so check out this interview and get to know his background a bit! From learning BASIC on a Commodore PET to working as an Information Security Manager, Evan is a great addition to the Security Field Day delegate panel. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks of the event.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Stephanie Ihezukwu
Stephanie Ihezukwu is one of the new delegates heading out to Security Field Day later this month. Be sure to check out this interview to get to know her a little better before the event. She talked about where she sees security going in the next few years, how she manages work/life balance, what she would do if she wasn’t in IT, and so much more. It was a great interview and we can’t wait to meet her at the event!
Meet Field Day Delegate: Nico Stein
While regular Field Day events are always special, it’s also great to get to do presentations at larger industry events. They don’t get much bigger than Cisco Live. In this post, we’re getting to know one of the new delegates coming to Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live US 2019, Nico Stein. Be sure to read it to find out how he went from editing autoexec.bat files to working in IT. We can’t wait to have him around the delegate table and to see what he thinks about the presentations.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Tricia Howard
Before you see her on the Security Field Day live stream, be sure to get to know Tricia Howard a little bit more in this post. She talks about getting into IT after starting with a degree in theatre arts, where she sees security going in the near future, and introduces us to Darth, the Pomsky. We can’t wait to hear what Tricia’s impression of the event are!
Avoiding Automation Archipelagos With Extreme Networks
When it’s your turn to build the automation strategy for your environment, make sure you don’t fall into the trap of building a series of automation islands with no integration. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at some recent announcements that Extreme Networks made at Networking Field Day and how they can help you connect your automation archipelago.
Datrium’s Multi-Cloud Vision Is All About Consistency
As interest in hybrid and mutli-cloud operation models increases in the enterprise, a recurring theme has been emerging. Consistency is key. Datrium wants to provide the consistency that allows enterprise customers to select the public cloud of their choice and maintain the same tools and knowledge. Ken Nalbone saw the company present at Cloud Field Day, and thinks they are likely betting on VMware being the common platform across multiple clouds and that the ability for enterprises to move their applications without refactoring will be the preferred path to the cloud for many enterprise customers.
How Pure Storage Delivers a Unified Cloud Experience
Hybrid cloud is becoming the preferred operating model of choice for enterprise IT. Ken Nalbone looks at why Pure Storage believes they can provide a consistent experience across clouds to their customers, based on what they presented at Cloud Field Day earlier this year.
You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy
This episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable was recorded at Tech Field Day Extra at Dell Technologies and looks at data protection policies. The group discusses why you’re probably doing it wrong. Essentially business and compliance needs are not top of mind when these policies are established. They further discuss how vendor defaults and application owners add to the confusion.
Yellow Capes and Safe Escapes – The Journey of Zoë Rose
Learning about the journey of Zoë Rose from her past to the bright future ahead of her has been enlightening for Tom Hollingsworth. He covers some highlights of the presentations she’s shared at Security Field Day and Aruba HER over the past few months and how we can learn about the path she’s taken to get where she is today.
All-In With SD-WAN and Fortinet
Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the Fortinet presentation from Networking Field Day and discusses how ASICs may be the key to Foritinet finding their ante in the SD-WAN market. Can SD-WAN innovate through software alone? Or can custom hardware ASICs make the difference in performance? Tom discusses.
Security Field Day – The Non-Conference
The Tech Field Day team started the Security Field Day event because they recognized that security is just as vital to IT operations as storage, networking, or virtualization. In this post, Tom Hollingsworth talks about how it distinguishes itself in the world of security event, by being the non-conference. That means no crowds, in-depth technical discussions, and live streamed for all to see.
Layered Security Isn’t About Devices
Tom Hollingsworth got to hear an excellent Ignite Talk at Security Field Day from Wolfgang Goerlich, looking at what it really means to have defense in depth on a network. For Wolfgang, this is less about putting more appliances and services on the network. Instead, he suggests looking at it like a tower defense game, where the resources you have are only useful if you deploy them strategically.
Datera and the Move Towards Software Defined Storage in the Enterprise
When discussing modern applications, infrastructure is often not given much though except to say that it should be easy to provision according to the needs of the application itself. Those who provide the infrastructure to applications developers and end users know this is no trivial task. Ken Nalbone looks at how Datera’s software defined storage platform helps bridge the this gap, which he got a close look at during Storage Field Day earlier this year.