The Independent IT Influencer Event
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Daniel Wade, Steve Gau
Discussion of what is coming soon to execute on building mission critical networks with Juniper.
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Tim McCarthy
Discussion of the high density and scale testing methodology that Juniper is using to qualify products for customers with dense deployments such as colleges.
More information: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/solutions/enterprise/research-education/colleges-universities/#overview
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Bruce Alexander, Rajesh Patil
A unified wired and wireless network management application, featuring full life cycle management, pre/post deployment life cycle tools with single pane of glass visibility to manage infrastructure, users and services.
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Bruce Alexander
This session reviews how Juniper is building the mission critical network, includes WLAN differentiators, recent product introductions: WLA532E, 802.11n AP with external antenna, SmartPass Connect for BYOD provisioning
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Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: David Munro, Neil Kulkarni
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Bala Krishnamurthy, Scott Calzia
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Ozer Dondurmacioglu
How to select the best architecture?
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Aruba Networks Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: HPE Aruba Networking
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Personnel: Rob Gin, Sujatha Mandava
Aruba Networks introduces and demonstrates AirWave at Wireless Field Day 4, February 14, 2013
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Wi-Fi Stress Tests with Keith Parsons
Company: N/A
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Personnel: Keith Parsons
Keith Parsons demonstrates his Wi-Fi stress testing methodology. He begins with an overview presentation, then demonstrates uploading and downloading using an Apple Airport Extreme and Metageek Wi-Spy.
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Juniper Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Juniper Networks
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Personnel: Jonathan Davidson, Tamir Hardof
Jonathan Davidson and Tamir Hardof Introduce the Juniper Session at Wireless Field Day 4 on February 14, 2013 in Sunnyvale, CA
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Motorola
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Personnel: Vik Evans
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Motorola
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Personnel: Sriram Venkiteswaran
Event: Wireless Field Day 4
Appearance: Motorola Solutions Presents at Wireless Field Day 4
Company: Motorola
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Personnel: Cherie Martin, Sriram Venkiteswaran
Event: Tech Field Day 5
Appearance: NetEx Presents at Tech Field Day 5
Company: NetEx
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Personnel: Bob MacIntyre, Nancy Golio
Recorded at Tech Field Day 5 on February 11, 2011, the NetEx presentation by Bob MacIntyre and Nancy Golio showcased their HyperIP software’s capabilities in WAN acceleration using a memorable beer bottle analogy. The presenters began by providing background on NetEx, a company that spun out of StorageTek in 1999 and is based in Minneapolis. They highlighted the company’s focus on enterprise server software and WAN optimization, specifically targeting disaster recovery (DR) applications, backup, and large data transfers. The presenters emphasized that HyperIP is designed to optimize data movement between data centers, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of mission-critical data.
The core of the presentation revolved around explaining the challenges of latency and packet loss in wide area networks (WANs) and how HyperIP addresses these issues. Using a creative analogy involving beer bottles, the presenters illustrated the inefficiencies of traditional TCP/IP protocols over WANs. In the analogy, beer bottles represented data packets, and the process of passing them along a line of people demonstrated the delays and potential losses that occur in a WAN environment. HyperIP mitigates these issues by terminating TCP connections locally, aggregating data packets, and using UDP for transmission between HyperIP appliances. This approach allows HyperIP to maintain high throughput and minimize the impact of latency and packet loss, effectively keeping the data “pipe” full and ensuring efficient data transfer.
The technical details of HyperIP were further elaborated, highlighting its deployment as a virtual machine that requires minimal resources and can be easily integrated into existing networks. The software uses advanced flow control mechanisms based on network capacity, round-trip time, and receiver rate feedback to optimize data transfer. HyperIP also supports features like compression, selective retransmission, and rate limiting, making it suitable for various network environments, including those with high packet loss. The presentation concluded with examples of HyperIP’s effectiveness in real-world scenarios, such as improving data transfer for online gaming companies and working seamlessly with data deduplication solutions. Overall, the demonstration effectively conveyed how HyperIP enhances WAN performance, ensuring reliable and efficient data movement across geographically dispersed locations.
Event: Tech Field Day 5
Appearance: Druva Presents at Tech Field Day 5
Company: Druva
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Personnel: Jaspreet Singh
Recorded on February 10, 2011, this video was the first American introduction of Druva and their enterprise endpoint protection product. Jaspreet Singh, Co-Founder and CEO of Druva, introduces the company and its technology, Singh discusses the customer pain points related to endpoint data protection, issues with existing backup solutions, and the new Druva approach.
In his presentation at Tech Field Day 8, Jaspreet Singh introduced Druva as a company focused on providing endpoint data protection solutions for enterprises. Founded by a team of former Veritas engineers, Druva was created to address data protection in increasingly mobile and decentralized workplace environments, prioritizing simplicity, performance, and minimal resource usage. Singh highlighted the growing challenge of managing backup needs across laptops and mobile devices, citing that the average corporate laptop now holds about 10GB of data, and that bandwidth limitations make traditional backup methods impractical. In response, Druva aimed to create a fresh and compelling solution that wasn’t just a repurposing of legacy products.
Singh explained that Druva’s flagship product, inSync, was designed from the ground up for modern endpoints, with a 40MB lightweight stack and seamless deployment that avoids the need for additional infrastructure like databases or web servers. A key differentiator was Druva’s global source-based deduplication, which is application-aware and significantly more accurate than traditional deduplication methods. This deduplication strategy recognizes complex data structures, like those in PST or Office files, determining precise boundaries for emails and attachments to optimize storage and minimize network usage. Druva’s architecture also incorporates multi-threaded backup transfers to reduce latency, works intelligently in varied network conditions, and ensures backups are non-intrusive for end users by regulating CPU and bandwidth usage and delaying backup tasks during startup or battery consumption.
The presentation concluded with a discussion of Druva’s restoration capabilities and forward-looking vision. The inSync product offered rapid, search-based file recovery accessible via desktop, browser, or mobile clients like iPads. While full iPad backup functionality was not yet supported due to platform limitations, Singh shared Druva’s ambition to expand beyond simple backup to broader enterprise data management, including secure remote wipe and data access management. Despite the rise of cloud services like Gmail and Exchange, Singh emphasized that many organizations still store significant data locally on laptops—especially email caches due to corporate server quotas—making laptop backup essential for data recovery and productivity continuity. Druva’s solution therefore aimed to fill existing gaps in endpoint protection with purpose-built technology rather than retrofitted legacy tools.
Event: Tech Field Day 1
Appearance: VMware Presents at Tech Field Day 1
Company: VMware by Broadcom
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Personnel: Tim Myers
This video was taken at the Gestalt IT Field Day (November 2009) with this session being held at VMware. Tim Myers (Senior Architect) gives more information and background to the design of the VMware “Booth Rack” that was used at the VMworld 2009 event in San Francisco.
Event: Tech Field Day 2
Appearance: EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 2
Company: EMC
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Personnel: Chad Sakac
Event: Tech Field Day 1
Appearance: Ocarina Networks Presents at Tech Field Day 1
Company: Ocarina Networks
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Event: Wireless Field Day 1
Appearance: Aerohive Presents at Wireless Field Day 1
Company: Aerohive
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Personnel: Bob O'Hara
In his presentation at Wireless Field Day 1, Bob O’Hara, co-founder of Airespace, delves into the origins and evolution of the controller-based architecture for enterprise Wi-Fi networks. He recounts the early 2000s when managing a multitude of access points was a significant challenge for enterprises. To address this, Airespace developed a centralized hierarchical system that stripped functions from individual access points and centralized them into a controller. This architecture allowed for easier configuration and management of wireless LANs, as the controller could automatically push configurations to all access points and collect data for analysis. The system’s ability to present this data in a user-friendly format with graphical overlays helped enterprises optimize their wireless networks effectively.
O’Hara explains that the decision to centralize functions was driven by economic constraints. At the time, the cost of powerful processors that could handle all necessary functions within each access point was prohibitive. Instead, Airespace leveraged the growing capabilities of Linux-based embedded processing and network processing silicon to build a robust central controller. This controller could process large amounts of data quickly and redistribute it to the access points, adding value that individual access points could not provide due to their limited processing power. This approach proved successful, leading to Airespace’s acquisition by Cisco in 2005, which further validated the effectiveness of their solution.
Reflecting on his journey, O’Hara notes the shift in technology and economics that has since occurred. Modern access points now have sufficient processing power at a lower cost, enabling a more distributed architecture as seen in Aerohive’s model. Despite the differences in physical implementation, O’Hara emphasizes that the core achievement of Airespace was making wireless LANs attractive and manageable for large enterprises. He highlights the dramatic increase in the adoption of wireless LANs from the early 2000s to the present, attributing this success to the foundational work done by Airespace. O’Hara concludes by expressing his long-held vision, inspired by science fiction, of achieving instantaneous, ubiquitous wireless communication, a goal that Wi-Fi technology is steadily making a reality.
Event: Tech Field Day 3
Appearance: Nimble Storage Presents at Tech Field Day 3
Company: Nimble Storage
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Personnel: Dan Leary, Umesh Maheshwari, Varun Mehta
On July 15, 2010, Nimble Storage chose Tech Field Day 3 in Seattle to unveil their company and hybrid storage array product. This video was not released at that time, but should be of some historic interest today for historical reasons following Nimble’s acquisition by HPE. At Tech Field Day 3, company co-founders Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari, along with marketing VP Dan Leary and senior product manager Ajay Singh, introduced Nimble Storage to an audience of independent technologists. They emphasized their deep expertise from companies like NetApp, Data Domain, and Sun, and positioned Nimble as a novel solution aimed at transforming storage for mid-sized enterprises. The team shared their vision of combining primary storage, backup, and disaster recovery into a single, easy-to-manage system optimized for performance and cost.
Nimble’s solution stood out through its unique CASL (Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout) architecture, which utilized flash memory as a cache layered on low-cost SATA disks, enhancing performance while minimizing storage costs. The system provided efficient real-time compression, granular block-level tracking for snapshots, and adaptive cache management to serve frequently accessed data with high performance. This architecture enabled storing up to 60-90 days of compressed snapshots on the primary system, eliminating traditional backup windows and simplifying disaster recovery. The product was designed with ease-of-use in mind, featuring application-defined templates and automated protection policies, making it especially suitable for IT generalists in mid-market organizations who needed simplified SAN management.
By integrating backup and DR functionalities typically handled by separate systems, Nimble claimed it could replace multiple traditional arrays and disk-based backup appliances with a single hybrid box. This consolidation led to significant savings in both upfront costs and ongoing operational complexity. Customers could implement efficient WAN replication using capacity-optimized snapshots without the need for separate dedupe appliances or complex DR solutions. One early adopter, a state government IT shop, reported faster backups, simpler restores, and a dramatic reduction in infrastructure — all while staying within budget. Throughout the presentation, the Nimble team acknowledged competition from tiered flash systems and ZFS-based vendors but emphasized their unique architectural advantages and operational simplicity as key differentiators.
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