Our own Stephen Foskett considers whether Kubernetes makes sense at the edge. This is a key topic for our upcoming Edge Field Day event, with many of the presenting companies likely to talk containers and orchestration. What are the pros and cons of Kubernetes at the edge? Read on to learn more!
What Are the Limits of Edge Computing?
In this short article, Stephen Foskett considers the limitations of edge computing. The cost of deployment and maintenance, limited processing power and storage capacity, concerns about security, and the question of scalability all come into play. These are the topics we will be considering as we dive into edge computing at Edge Field Day in February!
Cloud Field Day Looks to the Next Generation in January
Our first Cloud Field Day of 2023 was this past January. We had Forward Networks, Fortinet, and Solo.io present on many cloud related topics such as net-ops, cloud sec ops, the Fortigate firewall, cloud native networking, etc. Be sure to check out presentations and more from Cloud Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
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.
Edge Computing – Through the Timeline
In her post for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha highlights a Tech Field Day Roundtable discussion from this past October. A few delegates stood out during the discussion on Edge Computing. They discussed how companies are continuing to explore the possibilities trapped inside edge and excited to see how this will evolve. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts here or on the Gestalt IT website for more from the Tech Field Day Roundtable delegate discussion.
Digging Deeper Into the Theme of Sustainability in Enterprise IT
In this post, Sulagna Saha writes about the Delegate Roundtable Discussion from the most recent Tech Field Day. The Roundtable was focused on Sustainability in Enterprise IT where they drilled down to the heart of it all to find out that it’s just a corporate practice, or marketing hype, created to gain advantage over competitors. Take a look here on more thoughts from Sulagna, or visit the Gestalt IT website.
Tech Field Day Is Back With a Mix of CXL
At this past Tech Field Day, our delegates joined Stephen Foskett at the OCP Summit for a first ever CXL Forum Event. They started off the week focusing on the emerging CXL technology sponsored by Intel, Micron, and MemVerge and finally finished the week with a great presentation from ZPE Systems at Tech Field Day! All videos will be posted soon, be sure to visit the Tech Field Day website for more.
Storage Field Day Returns to Silicon Valley!
Storage Field Day returns! We will be live in Silicon Valley November 2 and 3, 2022, with presentations from Solidigm, Dell, AWS, Pure Storage, and Intel! Make sure to tune in live on LinkedIn or visit the the Tech Field Day website for more.
CFDx NetApp – Thoughts
The very first Cloud Field Day Exclusive with NetApp was this past September where Chris Williams, Jim Jones, Nathan Bennett, and many other delegates joined together at NetApp headquarters along Santana Row. In this latest YouTube video, Chris, Jim, and Nathan, sit down with Stephen Foskett to discuss their thoughts on the NetApp presentation and their cloud solutions. You don’t want to miss this technical discussion!
Take Charge of Your Multicloud Environment With NetApp: A Cloud Field Day Extra
We’re excited to have announced a special Cloud Field Day Exclusive with NetApp this past September. NetApp talked about how they are leading the way with Multicloud and brought in real world customer experience from Google Cloud. Check out the latest from NetApp here or on the Tech Field Day website!
Gestalt IT Is Headed to VMware Explore US 2022!
Gestalt IT was back at VMware Explore this year in beautiful San Francisco! We had presentations from NetApp and Pure Storage and were able to attend some delegate sessions such as VMunderground, vBrownBag and the CTO Advisor Road Trip booth. Take a look here at a brief overview of our Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore.
ML Commons Unveils MLPerf Training V2.0 | Gestalt IT Rundown: June 29, 2022
On the latest Gestalt IT Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Stephen Foskett where they dive into the newly released ML Commons MLPerf Training v2.0 results. This benchmark suite measures how fast systems can train models to a target quality metric. NVIDIA, Intel Habana, Google, and Graphcore all submitted at least partial results. How do we make sense of all this ML training hardware? Head to GestaltIT.com for shownotes.
Cloud Field Day Returns, Bridging the Datacenter to the Cloud
Cloud Field Day returns this June! Stephen Foskett, founder of Tech Field Day, will be moderating the event in Santa Clara County. Check out what companies to look forward to here!
AI Field Day Returns With a Focus on Data
AI Field Day returns in May! More applications are bringing machine learning capabilities, and companies are looking at deploying their own artificial intelligence applications as well. Stephen Foskett talks about which companies will be presenting and what we can look forward to. Check out his thoughts 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!
Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular?
In the latest On-Premise IT Podcast, a panel of experts discuss the question; Do Enterprises Need Private Cellular? Check out this discussion that took place at the Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere, you don’t want to miss it!
Join the Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere 22!
Join the Networking Field Day Experience at Aruba Atmosphere! Check out what Tech Field Day is up to during this event, you don’t want to miss it!
Episode 14 – Having a Field Day With AI Expert Stephen Foskett
Check out Rob Telson’s latest episode from this past AI Field Day! Gestalt IT’s founder, Stephen Foskett, had the opportunity to join Rob for the exciting discussion of AI technology in consumer, industrial, and commercial settings. Take a look here!
How to Connect Everything From Everywhere With ZeroTier
Looking for a fully functional solution that allows you to access everything from everywhere, securely and efficiently, whether on the open internet or behind NAT after NAT? Writing on his personal blog, Stephen Foskett discusses the solution from ZeroTier and how he has realized that it can do everything he has ever wanted and more! He mentions how rarely enthusiastic he is about any service, but ZeroTier does exactly what he needs. Check out Stephen’s thoughts here!