At Edge Field Day 1, companies such as Scale Computing, Mako Networks, Avassa, Zededa, and Opengear presented their solutions for deploying applications to the edge. There has been no universal agreement on what the term “edge” means, but delegates concluded that organizations should consider deploying applications in a location where they can achieve peak optimization. The presenters focused on networking, out-of-band access, compute/storage, provisioning, observability, and orchestration, aspects, but stressed that there is no uniform approach given that the edge varies by context. Read on for Gina Rosenthal’s thoughts on EFD1 and edge computing!
Cloud Field Day 16 #Shorts
Gina Rosenthal recorded a YouTube Short focused on the cloud market in general in preparation for Cloud Field Day 16. This is an innovative new short-form video format, and we’re happy to be featured by Gina!
Measuring the Current Day Blast Radius of Outages
Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses the most recent delegate roundtable discussion from Storage Field Day. Delegates, Enrico Signoretti, Frederic Van Haren, Glenn Dekhayser, Gina Rosenthal, Richard Kenyan, and moderator, Stephen Foskett, stood out in the discussion of Managing the Blast Radius as System Components get Bigger! Check out Sulagna’s thoughts on the dissection of this premise and the brainstorming that occurred on ways to limit the scope of impact.
Dell Live Blog From Storage Field Day
Gina Rosenthal live-blogged her thoughts on Dell’s presentation while attending the latest Storage Field Day event. Check out her opinions on Dell’s updates to PowerMax, PowerStore and PowerFlex on her blog, Digital Sunshine. You can find all of the videos from the latest Storage Field Day event on the Tech Field Day event website.
Pure Storage Live Blog Post From Storage Field Day
While attending Storage Field Day Gina Rosenthal live-blogged her thoughts on Pure Storage’s presentation. You can check out her thoughts on her blog, Digital Sunshine, and be sure to check out all of the latest videos from Storage Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
AWS Live Blog Post From Storage Field Day
After watching AWS present at Storage Field Day Gina Rosenthal gives her thoughts on how businesses can benefit from using AWS managed file services. You can check out what she has to say on her blog, Digital Sunshine, and be sure to watch all of the latest videos from Storage Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
Prosimo Solves Cloud Networking Problems
Gina Rosenthal attended the most recent Cloud Field Day and took an interest in Prosimo’s presentation! In her post, she talks about the problems Prosimo is solving and how they are trying to get people to think about cloud networking differently. Check out more from Gina here!
Kentik Addresses Network Observability in the Cloud
Gina Rosenthal gives her thoughts on Kentik and how they’re addressing network observability in the cloud after watching their presentation at Cloud Field Day. Check out what she has to say and make sure to check out all the videos from Cloud Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
Was That the Last VMware Conference?
Check out what Gina Rosenthal has to say about this past Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore US. You can read her thoughts on her website, Digital Sunshine, and be sure to check out the Tech Field Day website for all the updates from this past event!
AI Bias Isn’t a Technical Discussion
At this past AI Field Day, Stephen Foskett hosted a soon to be published podcast about AI Bias. In this post, Gina Rosenthal discusses her thoughts on AI bias in the technical industry. Take a look here!
Developer Advocacy Isn’t Exactly What We Think It Will Be
Check out the latest Gestalt IT Roundtable podcast! Stephen Foskett, podcast moderator, was joined with a few Tech Field Day delegates, Andy Banta, Gina Rosenthal, and Josh Warcop, to discuss developer advocacy. Check out their thoughts here!
Storage Will Never Die! Long Live Intel Optane and CXL!
Gina Rosenthal is here to tell you that storage will never die! She attended this past Tech Field day where Intel presented on their Optane Memory and CXL strategies. Take a look at Gina’s thoughts here!
The Gap Between Marketing and Product Reality
The excellent Gina Rosenthal describes her experiences as a delegate for Dell’s exclusive Tech Field Day event. In this post, she tackles the age-old problem of overpromising and underdelivering that technology marketing can conflate compared to the actual product. Read on to learn why she broaches this issue.
What Does the Future Cloud Look Like?
Gina Rosenthal breaks down what the future of cloud looks like after her time as a delegate for Cisco’s special Tech Field Day event. The event honed in on the very topic, so Gina combines both the subject matter covered by Cisco with her own thoughts and opinions here. Read on for the full picture.
Architecting AI Infrastructure
As a delegate at the first ever AI Field Day earlier this year, Gina Rosenthal helped to pioneer Tech Field Day into a new topic area! On 24×7 IT Connection, she writes about several the presenters she saw including BrainChip, Red Hat, Intel, MemVerge, and VAST Data. Gina notes that with the pool of professionals building AI infrastructures growing, there is an increased need for education around architecting those infrastructures. Our thanks to Gina for being on the delegate panel at AI Field Day, we hope you check out her deep dive!
How to Evaluate AI-Enhanced Analytical Tools
Writing for 24×7 IT Connection, Gina Rosenthal analyzes some of the AI-enhacned analytical tools presented by vendors at AI Field Day where she was a delegate. In her post, Gina reviews some of these AI-powered networking tools and provides recommendations for how to evaluate them. Specifically, she writes about Juniper’s Marvis Virtual Network Assistant as well as the AIOps from Aruba, and suggests that it’s important to do your homework before moving forward with utilizing AI!
#AIFD1 Day 2 Thoughts
As a delegate, Gina Rosenthal often has the chance to talk technology with presenting companies, but at AI Field Day she got to talk about another one of her interests: product marketing! After some of the AI Field Day presentations, Gina had the opportunity to engage directly with the presenters in candid breakout sessions to focus on how they presented their product. On her YouTube channel, Gina talks through some product marketing tips including how to use your marketing slides to provide context and help to set the table for the more in depth technical conversations. We’re always glad to have Gina at our Tech Field Day events and are thankful for her sharing her expertise in technology and beyond!
Thoughts on AI Field Day 1
Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions joined us at our very first AI Field Day last month! In this video, Gina analyzes some of the societal issues that arise around new AI products. She notes that although first to market is important, it is more important for companies to be clear with customers. Transparency is key. Thanks for joining us, Gina!
Getting the Gang Back Together for SC20
November is the month of artificial intelligence (AI), with the very first AI Field Day being launched by us, featuring companies including Aruba, Brainchip, Intel, Juniper Mist AI, and Red Hat, plus SC20 in mid-November. Gina Rosenthal, one of our AI Field day delegates is trying to fit it all in. We look forward to welcoming her to AI Field Day, the place to be for everything AI!
What’s the Buzz About SmartNICs?
Smart NICs are not new. However, they are just starting to emerge as a platform. Smart NICs are needed now more than ever with the increasing demand for improved network and compute performance. The buzz around the technology has also surged with the announcement of Project Monterey, an industry-wide collaboration to integrate SmartNICs into the VMware Cloud Foundation. So what are the benefits of using Smart NICs? Gina Rosenthal, a delegate at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2020 reveals Smart NICs secrets through Smart NIC technology developers including Pensando.
