In the latest episode of GigaOm: Voices in Innovation, Enrico Signoretti explores the successes and challenges around the transition to online events since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stephen Foskett (founder of Tech Field Day) & Ben Freedman (owner of Prime Image Media) join the podcast to talk through what they have found helpful to overcome the hurdles of implementing online events, including how they successfully transitioned Tech Field Day to an all virtual environment.
Pure Storage FlashRecover Brings Cohesity to FlashBlade
Pure Storage and Cohesity have teamed up to launch a new integrated product: the Pure Storage FlashRecover. This jointly engineered product has gotten the attention of Stephen Foskett. At Storage Field Day earlier this year, Stephen saw Cohesity’s presentations and gained a better understanding of the architecture of their products. You also might remember seeing FlashBlade introduced at Pure Accelerate 2016. Stephen writes that Pure Storage and Cohesity joining forces has a chance to make some real waves in storage.
Judges on Fire: Stephen Foskett, Organizer in Chief, Tech Field Day
The organizers of the Tech Trailblazers Awards started a new podcast called “Judges on Fire,” an intimate and enlightening way for listeners to get to know their award judges a little bit more. For the first episode, they spoke with Tech Field Day founder and organizer-in-chief, Stephen Foskett. They discussed how he went from being a Unix systems administrator out of college to starting Tech Field Day, how the event has adapted to life in a pandemic, and what are the best things to come out of the event.
Coming Together During COVID-19, With Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT
Tech Field Day founder and organizer Stephen Foskett appeared on Live Now to discuss how technology companies and events are adapting to the current COVID-19 self-isolating landscape. He finds the industry is dividing into two camps: those that are scaling back on events and other efforts as they get up to speed, and other that are already used to working remotely and operating at full speed. It’s an interesting discussion in how IT as a whole is reacting to this unprecedented situation.
Day Two Cloud 038: Making the Case for Third-Party Cloud Storage
Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett was recently a guest on the Day Two Cloud podcast. On the episode, he and Ned Bellavance discuss third-party cloud storage, and how it fits into a market with so many native options readily available. In the episode they discuss common enterprise use cases, and examines key issues including performance, data management, and operations.
BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – the On-Premise IT Roundtable
In this bonus episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable, we’re joining Stephen Foskett as he talks with some of the original delegates and inspirations for the Tech Field Day event series. They discuss the event that gave Stephen the initial idea, a fortuitous plane ride, how the first Tech Field Day event went, where the idea for the live stream started and more.
Meet the #TFD Founder: Stephen Foskett
It was great to have Aruba Network interview Tech Field Day founder Stephen Foskett on the event’s tenth anniversary. In it, they discuss how the event got started, what has changed since the beginning, and what the event offers delegates and presenting companies.
Juniper NXTWORK 2019 Keynote Live Blog
If you missed any of the major announcements from Juniper NXTWORK 2019, be sure to check out the live blog from Gestalt IT. Stephen Foskett was there and documenting all the news.
Druva Protects Corporate Data Outside the Firewall
Enterprises are increasingly using applications outside the firewall, with SaaS solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams becoming increasingly important. At the same time, these applications attract just the type of corporate data (chat, files, and workflows) that can place organizations at legal or operational risk. They’re also using cloud-based automation tools like ServiceNow and Okta, and even running applications in Amazon AWS. That’s why it’s a good thing that data protection providers like Druva are adding support for this “outside the firewall” data. Stephen Foskett digs into their presentation from Tech Field Day in this piece.
Where Did Tech Field Day Come From? Tech Field Day at 10
One of the most common questions people ask Stephen Foskett is where the idea for Tech Field Day originally came from. In this post for Gestalt IT, he discusses the world of influencer/blogger relations back at the start of the event, including a key “blogger day” with HP (now HPE) storage. After that event, Stephen worked with others in the community, both on the blogger and vendor side, to create the first-ever Tech Field Day event, 10 years ago this month!
SolarWinds Aims to Connect the Data Dots
Everyone has a story to tell, and if you’re willing to listen, you just might learn something! The same is true when it comes to business associates; even companies ought to have a defining story. In addition to listening and watching, it’s also important to know the right questions to ask. Questions, context, and analysis turn information to data and transform data into a story. Stephen Foskett looks at how SolarWinds is working to connect these data dots into a story, based on what he saw at Tech Field Day.
Meeting the Storage Performance Requirements of AI and ML Workloads With WekaIO
Two of the most impressive technological advancements in recent years are Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). But AI and ML workloads require vast amounts of storage and high-performance access from multiple servers. This is the ideal market for the WekaIO distributed storage solution, as demonstrated at Storage Field Day in February. It offers scale, performance, and compatibility with AI and ML workloads.
Nth Generation Symposium Keynote Live Blog
If you missed the Nth Generation Symposium Keynote, be sure to check out the Gestalt IT live blog to stay up to date on all the news and announcements.
Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day
Pure Storage has grown from a scrappy upstart to an established player in enterprise storage, and Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day were there the whole time. From their first Field Day appearance in 2011 to today’s Tech Talks and Exclusive Field Day events, we have grown together over 10 years.
It’s All About the Delegates: Tech Field Day at 10
Gestalt IT tapped into the power of a unique and growing community of independent IT influencers, and this remains our most valuable asset. We built Tech Field Day primarily to serve this community and have always kept their needs in mind. Our delegates make it all possible, and I will always be grateful for their friendship and support.
Tech Field Day 20 – The Ten Year Anniversary Edition
We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of Tech Field Day. As one of the first delegates at the first event, Greg Ferro shares his excitement at the anniversary, and shares a video of the closing speech from the event. While a lot in IT has changed in the last 10 years, it’s great to still have a lot of those first faces involved with the event.
Commvault Go Day 2 Live Blog
If you need the TL;DR on the Day 2 Commvault GO keynote, be sure to check out the Gestalt IT live blog. They break down all the news and provide the analysis about how this will effect Commvault and their customers going forward.
Stephen Foskett Gets the Latest News From Commvault at Commvault GO 2019
Stephen Foskett is interviewing Commvault management to learn the latest news at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 in Denver. Commvault recently acquired Hedvig, a software-defined storage company, and is enhancing its backup offerings with this highly-integrated, scalable storage solution. The company also announced Metallic, a new software-as-a-service offering.
Why You Should Consider Software-Defined Storage in Your Data Center
Datacenter architectures must meet the changing needs of many applications, while also supporting demanding workloads today. Datera’s design focuses on data movement, to allow flexibility for growth as requirements change. It uses commodity hardware and machine learning to create an optimal and cost-effective storage platform for the modern datacenter. Stephen Foskett breaks down their approach based on Datera’s presentations at Storage Field Day and Tech Field Day.
Accelerate Day 1 Recap With Stephen Foskett From Gestalt IT by Pure Storage
In this Pure Report podcast, our own Stephen Foskett provides a recap of the first packed day of Pure Accelerate. If you missed any of the announcements from the show, be sure to listen to his thoughts on FlashArray//C, Storage Class Memory, Cloud Block Store, FlashBlade, Pure1 and more.