BiB 26: Extreme Networks At NFD17 – Composing Workflows For Mean Time To Payrise

Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode on what they saw from Extreme Networks at Networking Field Day last week. They focus on their presentation reviewing their automation efforts with StackStorm and Workflow Composer. Once you listen to the episode, be sure the checkout the full video of Extreme Networks presentation for yourself.


Automatic Product Pitch Generator

John Herbert shares some fun for your next enterprise networking event, including a Networking Buzzword Generator and a buzzword bingo card! In the words of the buzzword generator: Our ground-breaking Next Generation Networking product predictively automates your environment through RESTful APIs, a single pane of glass, and network modeling.


Legacy IT Is Not A Monument

In this thoughful piece, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down why legacy IT is not in fact a monument to behold in all of its read-only grandeur, but rather a pain point for an organization. Tom takes an IT wrecking ball to these ersatz icons.


Cisco, Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus: Last Day of NFD17!

It may be his ninth Networking Field Day event, but John Herbert found a lot to be excited about at his most recent event. If you missed any of the presentations, be sure to check out our full video from each company. There’s lots of interesting presentations on automation, network fabrics, and hybrid cloud services.


BiB 25: ThousandEyes At NFD17 – Expanding Into User Experience

Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode based on what they saw from ThousandEyes at Networking Field Day last week. They look at how the company is moving away from being strictly a visibility company, and more into monitoring overall customer experience with their internet as a network approach.


BiB 24: Juniper OpenContrail At NFD17 – One Fabric To Bind Them

Greg Ferro and Drew Conry-Murray posted a Briefings in Brief episode on Juniper Networks’ presentation from Networking Field Day last week. They focus on their announcements regarding Contrail. Juniper reviewed the difficulties of fully open sourcing OpenContrail, how Contrail and OpenContrail will diverge going forward, and where they see the commercial product going from here. Once you listen to the episode, be sure to watch the full video of their presentation.


Networking Field Day 17 – Here We Go!

Chris Grundemann is all set for his first Field Day event, attending Networking Field Day this week out in Silicon Valley. He’ll get to drink from the networking fire hose as he hears from a wide range of companies with technical deep dives and demos. We can’t wait to hear what Chris thinks of the experience!


NFD17 and Tech Field Day Extra Cisco Live Europe 2018

To start the year, Dominik Pickhardt will be attending two Field Day events, heading out to Silicon Valley for Networking Field Day, then crossing the pod for Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe. Make sure to follow Dominik and all the delegates on Twitter for the events using #NFD17 and #CLEUR18.


Network Field Day 17: Mark Your Calendars!

Drew Conry-Murray and Greg Ferro from Packet Pushers will be at Networking Field Day next week. They’ll get to drink from the firehouse of presenting companies over the three day event. Remember to follow along on our live stream and tweet out questions with #NFD17.


Its time for Network Field Day 17

Greg Ferro is no stranger to Networking Field Day. We’re happy to have him along for our first event of the year. He’ll beheading out to Silicon Valley to hear presentations from the latest and greatest in networking. In this piece, Greg breaks down where each of the presenting companies are positioned at the start of 2018 and what he hopes to hear from them. Make sure to watch along with Greg on our live stream!