SoftIron’s Breakthrough in Private Cloud Technology Was on Display at Cloud Field Day 19

The Chaos Lever podcast takes on Cloud Field Day 19, with a focus on SoftIron, offering custom hardware and software integrations to construct resilient private cloud environments, providing an alternative perspective on the historical progression of IT infrastructure. Their commitment to private clouds is reflected in meticulously developed solutions, tailored for demanding scalability and flexibility, encompassing networking, compute, and storage. Listen in as delegate Ned Bellavance and Chris Hayner consider this product and the rest of the Cloud Field Day news!


Security Field Day With Forward Networks

At Security Field Day 10, Chris Hayner was impressed by Forward Networks and their digital twin technology, which offers comprehensive network visibility and security. The digital twin concept, which is not a new but increasingly essential tool in cybersecurity, is leveraged by Forward Networks to create a highly detailed network model allowing for in-depth analysis and proactive threat mitigation. The platform’s potency lies in its ability to model complex network changes over time, support security compliance efforts, and give IT teams an in-depth look at potential breach points and network vulnerabilities.


Thirty-Six GigaToasters

In this episode of Chaos Lever, Chris Hayner and Ned Bellavance cover Security Field Day 9, highlighting presentations by Comvault, Noname Security, Cisco, Cribl, and NetAlly’s Cyberscope. They discuss Comvault’s ThreatWise platform, which focuses on ransomware detection, and the use of fake hosts and lures to trap potential attackers. They also mention Cisco’s new hardware firewalls, the 4200 series, and their multicloud network security model. Chris shares insights on NetAlly’s Cyberscope, a handheld cybersecurity analyzer.


The Algorithm Made Me Do It: Cloud Field Day 17 Wrap-Up – Chaos Lever [EP61]

Ned Bellavance attended Cloud Field Day 17 in Boston and discussed the event with Chris Hayner on the Chaos Lever podcast. HYCU focuses on cloud backup and recovery and built a cloud-native backend and provide native backup solutions for AWS, Azure, and GCP with a marketplace and a development kit for SAS vendors to create backup solutions. RackN showcased their software platform, Digital Rebar, which simplifies working with on-premises hardware and bare metal servers and automates provisioning and configuration tasks for private clouds. Couchbase, a database-as-a-service company, utilizes native cloud constructs and offers secure private and public connection endpoints for database tenants. The event also emphasized the significance of VMware, the reality of multi-cloud environments, and the emerging trends of platform engineering and internal developer portals.


CXL Will Be Truly Composable Infrastructure

Writing on behalf of Gestalt IT, Chris Hayner talks about Intel’s newest technology; Compute Express Link (CXL). He goes into detail on this next gen technology that is intended to connect computer resources in the datacenter together. Check out Chris’ thoughts on a promised composable infrastructure from Intel’s CXL.


Figuratively Baggels

In this episode of the Chaos Lever podcast, Field Day delegates Chris Hayner and Ned Bellavance discuss our recent participation in the CXL Forum at OCP Summit 2022. Chris joined the rest of the Tech Field Day delegates at this special event and shares what he learned about CXL technology in this episode. And as usual Chris and Ned have lots to say about many other subjects besides!


Tech Field Day 26 – Event Details and Summary

Field Day delegate, Chris Hayner, gives us a great recap of October’s Tech Field Day including details from OCP Summit. Throughout the week, delegates discussed Enterprise Infrastructure, CXL, ZPE Systems Network Automation, and so much more! You can check out more from Chris here or visit his personal website.


Day Two Cloud 157: Highlights of Cloud Field Day 14

Day Two Clouds host, Ned Bellavance, attended this past Cloud Field Day as a delegate! In his latest podcast, joined by Ethan Banks and Chris Hayner, they talk about presentations from WEKA, Alkira, and Morpheus Data. Check out their thoughts here!


Cloud Field Day 14 – Event Details and Summary

Chris Hayner attended the most recent Cloud Field Day as a delegate! He now gives us a summary of each presentation along with the wide range of use cases that were displayed. Check out here what Chris thought of at this past Cloud Field Day and why multi-cloud is inevitable.


Meet Field Day Delegate – Chris Hayner

We excited to welcome Chris Hayner into the Tech Field Day delegate community; he will be joining us at June’s Cloud Field Day! Chris took some time to tell us a little about himself, take a look here!


ZPE Takes Out-Of-Band (You Guessed It) to the Cloud

Chris Hayner, a Field Day delegate, attended this past Security Field Day. In this article, he talks about the presentation from ZPE Systems, check out his thoughts here!


Half an Arsonist

Chris Hayner and Ned Bellavance finish their thoughts about each presentation from this past Security Field Day. Check it out!


TechHouse570- Security Field Day 7- Delegates Recap

Check out Girard Kaveline’s latest post about this past Security Field Day! Girard gives us an insight from the event in the eyes of some delegates and also discusses his takeaways from the Keeper Security and RackTop Systems presentations’.


Microsoft’s Security Vision: Let Our Acronyms Scan All Your Things

Microsoft Security presented at this past Security Field Day where Chris Hayner attended as a delegate. In his latest post, Chris discusses Microsoft’s new proposal. Check it out here!


Secure Virtual Giraffe

In this latest podcast, Chris Hayner and Ned Bellavance talk about this past Security Field Day where Keeper Security and Microsoft presented. Check out their thoughts here on NFTs and much more!


Chris Hayner

Enterprise Infrastructure and Security Architect