Mike Graff talked with Jon Hildebrand at Cloud Field Day 24 about Oxide Computer Company’s innovative approach to rethinking hardware for modern cloud infrastructures. This video highlighted how Oxide is bridging the gap between conventional servers and the dynamic needs of contemporary data centers. For more video from Cloud Field Day, follow Jon Hildebrand’s YouTube page!
Guy Currier Gives A Rapid Reaction to the Cloud Field Day 24 Pure Storage Presentation
Guy Currier and Jon Hildebrand discussed the Pure Storage presentation at Cloud Field Day 24, reflecting on its implications and innovations in cloud data management. He emphasized the significance of Pure Storage’s strategies in enhancing cloud efficiency and data optimization. For more videos, watch Jon Hildebrand’s YouTube channel!
Ken Nalbone Gives A Rapid Reaction to Cloud Field Day 24 Presenter Pure Storage
Jon Hildebrand asked Ken Nalbone for his reaction to Pure Storage’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 24. He highlighted key innovations and solutions discussed by Pure Storage, particularly focusing on their advancements in cloud technology. For more of Jon’s videos from Cloud Field Day, watch on YouTube!
Jack Poller Discusses Fortinet at Cloud Field Day 24
Jack Poller and Jon Hildebrand discuss of Fortinet’s offerings during Cloud Field Day 24, highlighting the company’s innovative approaches in cloud security. He examined the specifics of fortinet’s technology and how it aligns with current enterprise security needs. More coverage from Cloud Field Day can be found in this video series by Jon Hildebrand!
Nate Nielsen Discusses Fortinet’s Cloud Field Day 24 Presentation
Nate Nielsen and Jon Hildebrand share insights into Fortinet’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 24, exploring key updates and strategic advantages offered by their security solutions in cloud environments. The discussion focused on how Fortinet’s innovations enhance protection and streamline security operations across multi-cloud landscapes. For more comprehensive coverage of Cloud Field Day, you can find additional videos by Jon Hildebrand on YouTube.
Jon Hildebrand Discusses HPE at Cloud Field Day 24
In this video recorded at Cloud Field Day 24, Jon Hildebrand provides insightful analysis on the latest developments and offerings from HPE. His talk highlights how HPE’s strategies and technologies are shaping the future of cloud infrastructure and services. For more coverage of Cloud Field Day 24 by Jon Hildebrand, watch his video series!
Private Cloud is Not just Self-Service Virtualization
Private cloud is not just virtualization 4.0, self-service VM deployment doesn’t fulfil the same need as the Public Cloud. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Mike Graff, Jon Hildebrand, and Alastair Cooke. Private cloud has evolved from simple virtualization to a more comprehensive, cloud-like experience, emphasizing the need for on-premises infrastructure to offer the same developer-friendly tools and APIs as public clouds. Some application repatriation is driven by cost concerns and enabled by rise of technologies like Kubernetes and OpenShift for managing containerized workloads. A unified control plane for hybrid cloud environments is vital, as is accurate cost accounting for on-premises resources. Enterprises will search for a hybrid approach where developers can deploy applications without needing to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
The Evolution of Cloud at Cloud Field Day 24
Cloud Field Day 24 is back in San Francisco on October 22nd and 23rd, bringing the brightest minds in enterprise cloud together for two days of innovation, insight, and live demos.
Company Acquisitions are a Necessary Evil in Enterprise Tech
The IT industry’s reliance on acquisitions is a necessary driver of innovation, though they often seem to get in the way of competition and progress. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded during Cloud Field Day 21, features Ray Lucchesi, Jon Hildebrand, Ken Nalbone, and Stephen Foskett considering whether acquisitions in the IT industry are a necessary evil or a detriment to innovation. Acquisitions are often seen as a double-edged sword, with both positive and negative implications. On one hand, acquisitions can fuel innovation by providing smaller companies with the resources and market access they need to scale their ideas. On the other hand, they can stifle competition, lead to cultural clashes, and sometimes result in the disappearance of promising technologies or products.
Journey to the Far Edge
Jon Hildebrand reflects on the challenge of designing data centers for edge environments, which are far more unpredictable than traditional data centers. Drawing from personal experience, he discusses how they managed factors like cooling, power, and network connectivity, but also encountered unforeseen issues like vibrations from the trailer’s movement that led to structural problems. These challenges highlight the need for specialized equipment, such as those from OnLogic, a company that produces rugged, industrial-grade computers designed for extreme environments. Read more in this LinkedIn Pulse article following OnLogic’s presentation at Edge Field Day 3.
The Mainframe is Still Going Strong
Despite the hype about modern applications, the mainframe remains central to enterprise IT and is rapidly adopting new technologies. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Steven Dickens, Geoffrey Decker, and Jon Hildebrand talking to Stephen Foskett about the modern mainframe prior to the SHARE conference. The modern datacenter is rapidly adopting technologies like containerization, orchestration, and artificial intelligence, and these are coming to the mainframe world as well. And the continued importance of mainframe applications, especially in finance and transportation, makes the mainframe more important than ever. There is a tremendous career opportunity in mainframes as well, with recent grads commanding high salaries and working with exciting modern technologies. Modern mainframes run Linux natively, support OpenShift and containers, and support all of the latest languages and programming models in addition to PL1, Cobol, DB2, and of course zOS. We’re looking forward to bringing the latest in the mainframe space from SHARE to our audience.
Cloud Field Day 18: After-Action Perspective From the Delegates
We loved Nathan Bennett’s group Cloud Field Day after-action report video and wrote up an article to go with it at Gestalt IT. The event offered a platform for tech companies to showcase their developments and gain feedback from our delegates. Juniper Networks presenting their AI integration into Apstra, while Mezmo impressed with its telemetry capabilities and user-friendly interface. Long-standing industry player, VMware, was noted for its adaptability in the multi-cloud environment, proving that the evolving tech landscape remains exciting and innovative. Get the delegate reaction to all the presentations in this video!
Regaining Network Sanity Amongst the Clouds With Prosimo
Jon Hildebrand dives into the challenges of multi-cloud networking and how Prosimo aims to address these. Prosimo’s multi-cloud platform is designed to simplify the process of setting up secure connections among major cloud platforms. However, Hildebrand expresses some concerns over the long-term business model, such as the need to constantly sync with developments from multiple cloud providers and the potential risk of service deprecation.
Cloud Field Day 18 – After Action Report
This “after-action report” is a YouTube video featuring a group of Cloud Field Day delegates discussing the presentations and content from our recent event. Organized by Nathan Bennett, these videos give an immediate and unvarnished look at the presentations.
Achieving Disaster Recovery SLAs in Minutes With Cohesity
Cohesity presented at Cloud Field Day last month, where the company announced workflows to leverage the Cohesity platform for disaster recovery. In this post, Jon Hildebrand digs into one of the options for the shortest recovery SLA option, Failover/Failback. He gives in overview of how this is handled on the platform, and how it enables a much more simplified DR method.
How Cohesity Expands Data Protection Capabilities in the Cloud
Cohesity returned to Cloud Field Day earlier this year with an excellent presentation, and on the company blog, Jon Hildebrand wrote about what the company presented in this post. They reviewed their approach to offering a single cloud-native solution for backup and recovery workloads to span the public cloud and the data center. Be sure to check out the full edited video of their presentation.
Flipping The Script – From Delegate to Presenter
Jon Hildebrand has flipped the script from Tech Field Day delegate to Cloud Field Day presenter for Cohesity. Here, he talks about his preparation for the event and what it takes to have a successful Tech Field Day presentation.
Head in the Clouds: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Jon Hildebrand takes a look at what Oracle presented at Cloud Field Day last month. They specifically focused on their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. He appreciate what Oracle is trying to do with their infrastructure SLAs, which can represent significant risk reduction for more timid organizations. Overall he found their messaging and solutions should keep them relevant in the overall cloud infrastructure conversation.
The Yin Yang of Dell EMC Storage
Jon Hildebrand takes a look at what he heard from Dell EMC’s storage team at Tech Field Day last month. Overall he saw the company’s XtremIO team taking a page out of the VMAX playbook, emphasizing calm growth with their XtremIO 2 platform, learning lessons from the initial growing pains of the platform. Jon sees this as a way to move the platform into the self-described “boring reliability” of VMAX.
Adding More (Red)Fish to Your Diet
In this piece, Jon Hildebrand outlines how differing interpretations of the Intelligent Platform Management Interface standard led to a surfeit of tools for multi-vendor data center administrators. At Tech Field Day last month, Dell EMC outlined how they are incorporating the new Redfish standard to provide standardized APIs that will work better across a variety of hardware.