SDDC Symposium 2014 - Tech Field Day



SDDC Symposium 2014	April 22, 2014
Who: Networking What:	When: Past Where: Silicon Valley

Tech Field Day is planning a Software-Defined Datacenter Symposium! This will feature many key figures from the industry and end-user community, and will include discussions of OpenFlow, software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined storage, converged infrastructure, and the greater software-defined future!

Note that event capacity is severely constrained. Therefore, we are focusing on end-user implementers and encouraging others to participate online by viewing the live video stream on this page!

When: Tuesday, April 22, 2014, from 8 AM to 5 PM
Where: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
Who: End-users interested in SDN and SDDC
How: Tickets are available now!

Your ticket includes buffet lunch!

Bring a Friend

Bring a friend to SDDC14 and you both get $25 off your ticket! Here’s how it works:

Think of friends and colleagues who should attend the SDDC Symposium
Have them register with code “BringAFriend” and they’ll get $25 off their ticket price: https://sddc14.eventbrite.com/?discount=BringAFriend
When they register or check in on Tuesday, have them give your name or email address and you’ll get a $25 refund, up to the total cost of your ticket!

That’s right – they’ll get $25 off, and you’ll get $25 back up to the cost of your ticket for each person you refer! And they’re eligible to bring their friends, too, reducing the cost of their ticket as well.

The Fine Print: This offer is only valid for guests who register with code “BringAFriend”, pay the ticket price, attend the event, and give a name or email address that matches our guest list. We will make a diligent effort to match up the name or email address to what we have, but we are not responsible if your guests give us the wrong information. We will only give a rebate up to the total cost of the referrer’s ticket.

About the Organizers

Tech Field Day is a regular event that brings together vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public.

Packet Pushers

Packet Pushers is a podcast and website focussed on data networking. The weekly podcast reaches a highly technical audience of 3500 network engineers and architects.

SNIA Data Storage Innovation Conference

SNIA‘s Data Storage Innovation Conference is for decision-makers, technology implementers, and those expected to recognize, influence, and support data storage innovation as actual production solutions. SNIA DSI runs through April 24th. If you attend SDDC on April 22nd, you are entitled to receive up to $100 off on the registration price for the 2nd and 3rd days of DSI.

Click on the link to register for DSI and use SDDC14 to receive a registration discount on the following days:

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Event Sponsors

Moderators and Speakers

In addition to the sponsors listed above, we are pleased to have independent influencers moderating and participating in panels. The event also features a keynote speech as noted above!

	Chris M Evans	@ChrisMEvans
	Chris is a UK-based consultant with an interest in all technologies, focusing on storage, virtualisation and cloud.
	Howard Marks	@DeepStorageNet
	Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
	Tom Hollingsworth	@NetworkingNerd
	Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.

Order of the Day

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and at some delegate and presenter web sites. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

08:00	Meeting, Registration, Introduction
	Featuring: Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth

08:45	Introducing the Next Generation SDDC Leaders 1
	Featuring: Andrew Warfield, Michael Dvorkin, Neela Jacques

10:00	Architecture in the SDDC Panel
	Featuring: Andrew Warfield, Dave Wright, David Meyer, Drew Pletcher, Jesse St. Laurent, Kelly Murphy
	Moderator Chris Evans and a panel of experts discuss the convergence of compute, storage, and networking and what this means for the future of data center architecture.
11:00	Introducing the Next Generation SDDC Leaders 2
	Featuring: Kelly Herrell, Thomas Cornely

11:45	The CapEx / OpEx Battleground Panel
	Featuring: Chris Price, Colin McNamara, Jon Hudson, Justin Warren, Omar Sultan, Rick Martig
	Budgets in the SDDC are tight. Should you budget for traditional big expenditures? Or will monthly fees lure you to the operational model? Watch as moderator Michael Bushong and our panelists discuss the pros and cons of each approach.
12:30	Lunch Expo
	Featuring: N/A
	The SDDC Symposium will adjourn for lunch in the expo area, presented in cooperation with SNIA‘s Data Storage Innovation Conference.
13:15	Audience Q&A 1
	Featuring: Dave Wright, David Meyer, Jesse St. Laurent, Jon Hudson, Michael Dvorkin, Tom Hollingsworth

13:45	Introducing the Next Generation SDDC Leaders 3
	Featuring: Dave Wright, George Symons, Jesse St. Laurent

15:00	SDDC in the Sunlight: Real World Use Cases Panel
	Featuring: Dave Wright, David Meyer, Jesse St. Laurent, Michael Letschin, Ramana Jonnala, Victoria Grey
	Technology discussions and protocol arguments solve little. The real world is where SDDC technologies will be proven. Moderator Howard Marks and his panelists will discuss real world applications of SDDC technology from a business case perspective as well as interesting deployments seen in actual networks.
16:00	Audience Q&A 2
	Featuring: Colin McNamara, George Symons, Jon Hudson, Neela Jacques, Omar Sultan, Stephen Foskett

17:00	Closing Remarks
	Featuring: Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth

17:30	DSI/SDDC Reception
	Featuring:
	Join the SDDC Symposium and SNIA DSI Conference attendees for an evening reception with coffee and snacks

Event Staff

	Claire Chaplais	@CChaplais
	Claire Chaplais has over 20 years experience in business operations, marketing communication programs, and event management for the high tech industry. She worked for great companies like Wind River Systems, StorageTek, Common Sense Media, and Harris B …
	Stephen Foskett	@SFoskett
	Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud
	Tom Hollingsworth	@NetworkingNerd
	Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day event series specializing in networking, wireless, and security topics.

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More Information

If you would like to sponsor these events, please contact Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT Community Organizer, at sfoskett@gestaltit.com or call +1(508)451-9532.

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Tickets for live attendance are available as indicated above, and the entire event is live streamed over the Internet.

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