L-R: Eric Shanks, Rich Stroffolino, Ethan Banks, Megan Robinette, Stephen Foskett, Tim Miller, Mike Preston, Alex Galbraith, Jon Hildebrand, Jody Lemoine, Margo Harmon, Claire Chaplais, Josh De Jong, Tom Hollingsworth, Tim Smith, John White, Matt Crape, James Green

Tech Field Day 12

November 15–November 16, 2016

#TFD12

Who: Tech

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Alex Galbraith

@AlexGalbraith

Solutions Architect in the UK, podcaster and independent blogger at www.tekhead.it. At 6’7″ tall, obviously a ‘massive’ geek.

Eric Shanks

@Eric_Shanks

Consultant and blogger for theITHollow.com focused on Automation

Ethan Banks

@ECBanks

As the founder of Packet Pushers, Ethan focuses on educating the community about networking through podcasting, writing and videos.

James Green

@JDGreen

James is Partner & Content Czar at ActualTech Media where he is responsible for developing unique content offerings that help enterprise IT vendors accomplish their most critical content marketing objectives.

Jody Lemoine

Network Greasemonkey, Matrix Anarchitect, Packet Macrame Specialist, Virtual Pneumatic Tube Transport Designer, and Connectivity Nerfherder. Independent consultant. CCIE 41436, MTCRE, MTCINE, MTCIPv6E, MikroTik Certified Trainer

John White

@JohnA_White

Dad, technology lover, softball players, car guy, cloud guy, product strategy executive at Expedient.

Jon Hildebrand

@SnoopJ123

Virtualization/Data Center/Cloud/Orchestration/Automation Enthusiast

Josh De Jong

@EuroBrew

Storage and virtualization guy. Occasional blogger, twitter addict, taker of naps.

Matt Crape

@MattThatITGuy

An IT Generalist with a passion for virtualization, storage, data protection, and helping others.

Mike Preston

@MWPreston

3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and a typical Canadian eh!

Tim Miller

@BroadcastStorm

Senior IT Engineer that loves all things networking and HPC.

Tim Smith

@TSmith_co

Data Center Architect building and implementing VMware and supporting solutions.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Tuesday, Nov 15 9:00 - 11:00 Cohesity Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Tuesday, Nov 15 13:00 - 14:00 Gestalt IT Roundtable Podcast Recording
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
Tuesday, Nov 15 14:00 - 16:00 StorageOS Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Tuesday, Nov 15 16:30 - 18:30 Igneous Systems Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 8:00 - 10:00 Dell EMC Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 11:00 - 13:00 DriveScale Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 14:00 - 16:00 Rubrik Presents at Tech Field Day 12
Wednesday, Nov 16 16:30 - 18:30 Docker Presents at Tech Field Day 12
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Megan Robinette

@MegRobinette

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


73 Links with Tag #TFD12

  1. Coverage: Time to write Chapter 2
  2. Coverage: DriveScale Releases Customer-Driven Advancements in Fall Edition of its SCI Platform
  3. Coverage: DriveScale Now Supports Kubernetes and Docker
  4. Coverage: Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)
  5. Coverage: New Career Adventure — Joined Rubrik
  6. Coverage: Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications
  7. Coverage: Building Data Storage With Containers
  8. Coverage: What Capabilities are Needed for a Startup Storage Company?
  9. Coverage: Backups suck, rubrik does not
  10. Coverage: 2016 between container, hyper-convergence, cloud and bigdata
  11. Coverage: Cohesity – a secondary storage leader in the making?
  12. Coverage: Here’s to 2016 (A year in the life…)
  13. Coverage: 2016 – How did I do?
  14. Coverage: Docker?  On Windows?  Yep!
  15. Coverage: Secondary Storage is Cohesity’s Primary Goal
  16. Coverage: Cohesity – DataPlatform in the Cloud
  17. Coverage: Pets, Cattle and Cabbage, oh my! DriveScale Brings Scale-Out to Tech Field Day 12
  18. Coverage: Time to bring back the middleman
  19. Coverage: Container Hardening with Docker Bench for Security
  20. Coverage: Is Everything Pay-as-You-Go?
  21. Coverage: Drive and Rack Scale Storage Architectures
  22. Coverage: Get all the Docker talks from Tech Field Day 12
  23. Coverage: Docker is the New Twitter
  24. Coverage: DriveScale is a new kid on the block with a very seasoned past
  25. Coverage: Cloud Storage? In my DC? Yes please! Enter Igneous
  26. Coverage: Decouple Disks and Compute with DriveScale
  27. Coverage: Efficient Resource Use Takes Interesting Turn at Scale
  28. Coverage: Transform and Scale Out with Isilon
  29. Coverage: The Atlas File System – The foundation of the Rubrik Platform
  30. Coverage: Forward Thinking Backups
  31. Coverage: The Igneous Synthesis
  32. Coverage: Scale-Out. Distributed. Whatever the Name, it’s the Future of Computing
  33. Coverage: Scale-Out Storage Through Disaggregation With DriveScale
  34. Coverage: First Look at Cohesity Cloud Edition
  35. Coverage: Igneous – On Premises, Cloud Managed, Scale-Out Storage
  36. Coverage: On-prem Cloud Storage with Igneous Systems
  37. Coverage: Scaling storage with an army of ARM!
  38. Coverage: The Container Storage Persistence Challenge
  39. Coverage: Improving Stateful Container Storage with StorageOS
  40. Coverage: The Silent Threat of Dark Data
  41. Coverage: A VMware guy’s perspective on containers
  42. Coverage: DriveScale Gives You Ethernet With a Side of Storage
  43. Coverage: SPEP03 – TFD12 | Open TechCast
  44. Coverage: Friday Shorts – VMware, Veeam, Docker and Community
  45. Coverage: The struggles of travelling
  46. Coverage: Throw Your Isilon in the Data Lake
  47. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Dell EMC
  48. Coverage: Cohesity Provides All of Your Secondary Storage Needs
  49. Coverage: Cohesity Presents at Tech Field Day 12
  50. Coverage: Rubrik – A Refreshing Approach to Backups
  51. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: StorageOS
  52. Coverage: DellEMC will make it’s first appearance at a Field Day event since merger!
  53. News: Tech Field Day Events 2017
  54. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: DriveScale
  55. Coverage: Cohesity bringing secondary storage to Tech Field Day
  56. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Docker
  57. Coverage: Intel to take the stage at Tech Field Day!
  58. Coverage: Docker to make 4th Field Day appearance!
  59. Coverage: StorageOS to Highlight Persistent Container Storage at CloudNativeCon and Tech Field Day Events
  60. Coverage: Rubrik to talk cloud data management at Tech Field Day
  61. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12
  62. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Igneous Systems
  63. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 Primer: Rubrik
  64. Coverage: DriveScale set to make first ever Tech Field Day appearance!
  65. Coverage: Igneous bringing the cloud to you at Tech Field Day
  66. Coverage: TFD 12 Primer: Cohesity
  67. Coverage: StorageOS to take the stage at Tech Field Day 12
  68. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 (TFD12) – Preview
  69. Coverage: Startup Radar: Igneous Systems Blends On-Prem Hyperconvergence With Cloud Management
  70. Coverage: Well That Was Unexpected …
  71. Coverage: My Take on #NFD12 Heading Into #TFD12 and #NFD13
  72. Coverage: Tech Field Day 12 – Goin’ back to Cali!
  73. Coverage: What’s In A Name?

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