Ned Bellavance, a Field Day delegate, shares what his 2021 year looked like through a professional and personal point of view. Check out which Tech Field Day events Ned attended, along with other random and sundry events that he was a part of this past year. We always love to see what our delegates are up to!
Prosimo at Cloud Field Day 12
Looking to effectively tie together the networking for your cloud presence and your on-prem datacenters and branch offices? Ned Bellavance, a Field Day delegate, discusses the solution that can leverage the native constructs in each cloud and their massive backbone to provide high-performance, low-latency connectivity from an orchestrated SaaS solution that was presented by Prosimo at Cloud Field Day! Check out Ned’s podcast here or on Spotify for more information.
Ondat at Cloud Field Day 12
Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day, was set straight with Ondat’s presentation on their solution for Kube-native storage. Ondat is laser focused on supporting stateful workloads on Kubernetes and nothing else. Although their solution seems solid, Ned thinks it may lack some key features. Check out Ned’s podcast to see if their recently launched SaaS will be enough in comparison to their competitors!
MemVerge at Cloud Field Day 12
There is a big chance that MemVerge will make a huge impact in the next five years with their new AppCapsule technology solution. Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day, has his mind buzzing from MemVerge’s presentation. Check out the developing product on Ned’s recent podcast on spotify!
Yotascale at Cloud Field Day 12
Ned Bellavance, a delegate from November’s Cloud Field Day event, gives a brief 10-minute podcast on the depth of analytics and integration that Yotascale offered in their presentation. Ned was impressed by their multi-cloud cost management solution and thinks Yotascale can give cloud economists the data they need to do their job. Check out Ned’s podcast here or listen in on Spotify!
Draining My Social Battery
In this 10-minute, daily podcast, Ned Bellavance, a Field Day delegate, discusses technology, career advancement, and anything else relevant to the IT Professional in a brief, conversational style. Find Draining My Social Battery on your favorite podcast app through Anchor.
DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale
Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on his blog Ned in the Cloud, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.
DevOps’ing the Enterprise Sale by Daily Check-In With Ned1313
Ned Bellavance, proprietor of Ned in the Cloud and long-time Tech Field Day delegate, dives into Scality’s launch of the ARTESCA product that they announced at their special Tech Field Day event, which Bellavance attended as a delegate in April. In his podcast, hosted on Anchor, Bellavance pontificates on how Scality used the platform to sell a DevOps-focused product to an enterprise IT audience. Tune in to hear what sorts of thoughts that approach sparked in Bellavance, as well as what his takes on the release were. Also, be sure to watch Scality’s launch event in partnership with HPE to see what’s new with the ARTESCA product.
Day Two Cloud 093: Don’t Get Your Whittling Badge
Following their appearance at Cloud Field Day in March, Kit Colbert and Dormain Drewitz from VMware sat down with Ned Bellavance of “Ned in the Cloud” to talk about their presentation. In his blog on the matter, Bellavance talks about their discussion on modernizing applications to meet the real-time demands of today’s customers. Read the blog to see what they discussed, and be sure to tune into VMware’s Tech Field Day presentation to hear more about their recent announcements.
Oracle Cloud ❤️’s Terraform
Ned Bellavance has been a little skeptical of Oracle building a public cloud, and seeing them while he was a delegate at Cloud Field Day gave him a great opportunity to ask some hard questions and learn more about their offering. In one of his “Terraform Tuesdays” videos from his Ned in the Cloud YouTube channel, Ned digs into the intriguing proposition that the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure uses Terraform as its IaC. Head over to his YouTube channel to see him talk through how this works with video from inside the platform itself!
StorageOS Is vSAN for Kubernetes
Ned Bellavance joined us as a delegate at Cloud Field Day in March and got to see StorageOS at the event. Ned had the opportunity to learn more about StorageOS and its product, vSAN for Kubernetes, which he finds intriguing. To see what Ned had to say about it, check out this video on YouTube!
Red Hat at the Edge
In a video on his Youtube channel “Ned in the Cloud”, Ned Bellavance talks about the presentation that Red Hat gave to him and eleven other delegates at Tech Field Day in December. In the video, he talks through Red Hat’s presentation including their focus on OpenShift for Developers and OpenShift at the Edge. Be sure to check out Ned’s video to learn more about the relationship between OpenShift and the Edge as well as watch Red Hat’s presentation from Tech Field Day on our website!
VMware Cloud DR Is Good Enough?
Is VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery good enough for you? Ned Bellavance, delegate at Tech Field Day earlier this month, does a daily check-in to recap the VMware presentation on their Cloud Disaster Recovery product. He goes over the type of customer that this VMware offering would be best for, tune in to his video to find out if it’s for you!
Veeam Loves Mobility
Ned Bellavance had the chance to see Veeam present on disaster recovery and Kasten at Tech Field Day earlier this month. For his daily check-in, Ned talks about Veeam’s presentation as well as the bridge between disaster recovery and data migration. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the Ned in the Cloud YouTube channel for Ned’s check-ins or take a look at the presentations from Veeam on the Tech Field Day website!
Commvault and Kubernetes – Tech Field Day 22
Commvault and Kubernetes? It was a surprising development from the perspective of Ned Bellavance who talks about it in his daily check-in. Ned was a delegate at Tech Field Day where he was able to interact directly with Commvault and other presenters. To hear all of Ned’s thoughts on Commvault’s push towards adopting cloud and Tech Field Day as a whole, check out his Ned in the Cloud YouTube channel!
Pure Storage at #TFDx #VMworld
Ned Bellavance has been acquainted with Pure Storage for a while and has always been impressed with their product capabilities. He had the chance to see them at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld and talks about their presentations on his Daily Check-In video on YouTube. Ned says that Pure Storage has taken a step up with FlashStack by adding extra functionality that might have been missing in previous VCF deployments. He also analyses Pure Storage’s acquisition of Portworx and how it has brought more capabilities to their company as a whole. Be sure to watch Ned’s Daily Check-In and the Pure Storage presentations on our website.
Day Two Cloud 059: Cloud Field Day Wrap-Up
In this episode of Day Two Cloud, Ethan Banks breaks down the second day of presentations from Cloud Field Day with delegates Ned Bellavance and Adam Fisher. This was a packed day of presentation, featuring technical deep dives from Veeam, Zerto, Diamanti, Morpheus Data, and Aruba Networks. They dig into the background on each company, what they showed off at the event, and how significant each presentation was from their IT lens.
Veeam at Cloud Field Day 8 – Daily Check-In for July 15, 2020
Ned Bellavance has now attended his second virtual Field Day event, recently participating at Cloud Field Day. He was impressed how the Field Day team has kept iterating on the virtual event format to take advantage of not being limited by physical space, providing two different presentation tracks to let people watch presenters at a convenient time. In this video, he looks at what Veeam presented at the event. They showed off their latest tools specifically designed to help users backup and protect workloads and data in the cloud.
Cloud Field Day 8 Prep – Daily Check-In for June 17, 2020
In this Daily Check-In video from Ned Bellavance, he digs into his homework ahead of seeing presentations at Cloud Field Day. He introduces his audience to the whole Field Day experience, and runs down the presenters to talk about what he expects to see. If you haven’t been checking out Ned’s daily check-in videos, be sure to subscribe to his channel for more!
Aid Complex Troubleshooting With Distributed Tracing – Day Two Cloud Podcast Video
Distributed tracing is the dark art of tracking a transaction that passes through several microservices for troubleshooting purposes. Why was the transaction slow? Hard to say, especially when the failure is intermittent. Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks explain the problem and how SolarWinds Application Performance Monitoring suite is tackling it with Pingdom, Loggly, and AppOptics. Especially AppOptics, something they heard a lot about during SolarWinds’ Cloud Field Day presentation.
