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Larry Smith

December 11, 2014 by

Web site:

  • https://everythingshouldbevirtual.com
Social Media:

  • @MrLESmithJr
LinkedIn:

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrlesmithjr
Interests:

  • Cloud, Datacenter/Virtualization

Larry is a passionate and eccentric technologist. He has spent 20+ years in enterprise infrastructure spanning across networking, compute, storage, and virtualization. Larry has also spent the last 7+ years in many DevOps/SRE roles navigating cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

With all the various roles that Larry has held, he has in one way or another managed to navigate around technologies such as AWS, Azure, VMware, Ansible, HashiCorp, Kubernetes, Python, security, and observability. However, Larry finds himself discussing automation at scale and extreme abstractions on most occasions.

Larry is also an active community leader and open-source contributor. He also has a strong passion for mentoring and leading great humans, while also remaining humble and coachable himself.

20 Events Attended

Cloud Field Day 22

Cloud Field Day 17

Cloud Field Day 14

Cloud Field Day 12

Tech Field Day Presents Scality and HPE: Making the Future of Data Possible

Cloud Field Day 10

Networking Field Day 24

Cloud Field Day 9

Tech Field Day Virtual with Red Hat

Cloud Field Day 7

Tech Field Day 21

Cloud Field Day 6

Networking Field Day Exclusive with Cisco Service Provider

Networking Field Day 17

Tech Field Day 14

Segment Routing Field Day Roundtable

Tech Field Day 10

Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld US 2015

Networking Field Day 10

Virtualization Field Day 4

20 Links with Tag @MrLESmithJr

  1. Tech Field Day Podcast: The Network is Finally the Application
    • Cloud Field Day 22
    • Alastair Cooke, Jon Myer, Michael Levan
  2. Coverage: NFD24 – DriveNets
    • Networking Field Day 24
    • DriveNets
  3. Coverage: VMware TKG
    • Cloud Field Day 7
    • VMware by Broadcom
  4. Coverage: CFD6 – Hashicorp
    • Cloud Field Day 6
    • HashiCorp
  5. Coverage: CFD6 VMware API Questions
    • Cloud Field Day 6
    • VMware by Broadcom
  6. Coverage: NFDX – Cisco IOS XR – ZTP
    • Networking Field Day Exclusive with Cisco Service Provider
    • Cisco
  7. Coverage: Cumulus – Not Your Average Networking
    • Networking Field Day 17
    • Cumulus Networks
  8. Coverage: Bringing DevOps To Routing – Cisco XR
    • Networking Field Day 17
    • Cisco
  9. Coverage: #NFD17 – It’s A Wrap
    • Networking Field Day 17
  10. Coverage: TFD14 – NetApp
    • Tech Field Day 14
    • NetApp
  11. Coverage: TFD14 – NetApp
    • Tech Field Day 14
    • NetApp
  12. Coverage: Tech Field Day – VMTurbo
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Turbonomic
  13. Coverage: Tech Field Day – Diablo Technologies
    • Tech Field Day 10
    • Diablo Technologies
  14. Coverage: Tech Field Day – NFD10
    • Networking Field Day 10
  15. Coverage: Learning Vagrant and Ansible Provisioning
    • Networking Field Day 10
  16. Coverage: Tech Field Day – Scale Computing
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Scale Computing
  17. Coverage: Tech Field Day – #VFD4 – Platform9
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Platform9 Systems
  18. Coverage: Dell FX Architecture
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Dell
  19. Coverage: Tech Field Day – VFD4 Experience
    • Virtualization Field Day 4
    • Tech Field Day
  20. Coverage: Tech Field Day
    • Virtualization Field Day 4

Tagged With: @MrLESmithJr

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  • Mar 23-Mar 24 — Tech Field Day Extra at RSAC 2026
  • Apr 8-Apr 10 — Networking Field Day 40
  • Apr 15-Apr 16 — AI AppDev Field Day 3
  • Apr 29-Apr 30 — Security Field Day 15
  • May 6-May 8 — Mobility Field Day 14
  • May 13-May 14 — AI Field Day 8

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Event Calendar

  • Jan 28-Jan 30 — AI Infrastructure Field Day 4
  • Mar 11-Mar 12 — Cloud Field Day 25
  • Mar 23-Mar 24 — Tech Field Day Extra at RSAC 2026
  • Apr 8-Apr 10 — Networking Field Day 40
  • Apr 15-Apr 16 — AI AppDev Field Day 3
  • Apr 29-Apr 30 — Security Field Day 15
  • May 6-May 8 — Mobility Field Day 14
  • May 13-May 14 — AI Field Day 8

  • Cutting-Edge AI Networking and Storage Kick Off 2026 at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4
  • Commvault Shift 2025 Live Blog
  • @TechFieldDay@TechFieldDay.net

Tech Field Day is an invite-only technical meeting between delegates from around the world and sponsoring enterprise IT companies that share their products and ideas through presentations, demos, roundtables, and more. (Learn More)

Tech Field Day Coverage

  • Managing Edge AI and Computer Vision at Scale
  • Digitate ignio and the 2025 AIOps Question: Build or Buy?
  • Reimagining AI from a Security Risk into an Asset with Fortinet
  • ResOps: The Convergence of Security and Operations
  • How Collaboration is Helping HPE Leverage AI in Practical Applications
  • Articul8’s Vision for Unique AI Models in the Enterprise
  • The AI Librarian: How Microsoft Sentinel Transforms Chaos into Clarity

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