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L-R: Keith Townsend, Stephen Foskett, Mark May, Matt Crape, Karel Novak, Rachel Traylor, Ian Sanderson, Brandon Carroll, Nikki Schnupp, James Green, Raff Poltronieri, Howard Marks, Paul Woodward |
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Tech Field Day 15 |
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September 27–September 29, 2017 |
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Who: Tech What: Field Day |
When: Past Location: Silicon Valley |
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Presenting Sponsors
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.
| Brandon Carroll | |||
Consulting System Engineer, Instructor, Blogger, and Technology Fan. CCIE #23837. |
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| Dr. Rachel Traylor | |||
Founder of The Math Citadel, freelance mathematician with research interests in probability theory and reliability theory. Former data scientist. |
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| Howard Marks | |||
Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
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| Ian Sanderson | |||
Product Manager – Data Protection |
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| James Green | |||
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. |
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| Karel Novak | |||
Senior Virtual Infrastructure Engineer at ArrowECS Czech Republic |
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| Keith Townsend | |||
Founder and Executive Strategist at The CTO Advisor |
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| Mark May | |||
Storage expert, unix curmudgeon, IT nerd, and sporadic blogger |
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| Matt Crape | |||
An IT Generalist with a passion for virtualization, storage, data protection, and helping others. |
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| Paul L. Woodward Jr | |||
I am a Systems Engineer with a focus on data center technologies. My passion is virtualization and performing amazing feats of technology! |
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| Raff Poltronieri | |||
Cloud Solutions Architect – vExpert – Blogger&Speaker |
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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.
| Wednesday, Sep 27 | 10:00-14:00 | ![]() |
Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | |
| Wednesday, Sep 27 | 15:00-17:00 | Skyport Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
| Thursday, Sep 28 | 08:30-10:30 | Ixia Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
| Thursday, Sep 28 | 13:00-15:00 | Scale Computing Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
| Thursday, Sep 28 | 16:00-18:00 | Riverbed Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
| Friday, Sep 29 | 08:00-10:00 | Actifio Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
| Friday, Sep 29 | 10:30-12:30 | DataCore Presents at Tech Field Day 15 | ||
Event Staff
| Nikki Schnupp | ||
Nikki Schnupp provides Event Support for Tech Field Day |
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| Stephen Foskett | ||
Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud |
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54 Links with Tag #TFD15
- Coverage: Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
- Coverage: Looking Through the (Cloud)Lense with Ixia
- Coverage: Still Backhauling All Internet-Bound Traffic To Your Data Center?
- Coverage: Moving Beyond Backups to Enterprise-Data-as-a-Service
- Coverage: Simplify Remote Offices
- Coverage: Riverbed Steel Fusion: A New Approach to Remote Office Infrastructure
- Coverage: Keeping An Eye On Containers with Ixia CloudLens
- Coverage: That’s a Wrap: An ExploreVM Look Back at 2017
- Coverage: 2017 – A Personal Reflection
- Coverage: Enterprise Data as a Service (DaaS): the new paradigm of Actifio
- Coverage: Ixia CloudLens to dive in the public cloud traffic
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 @Riverbed (#TFD15) (with images, tweets)
- Coverage: How to quickly deploy Riverbed’s Xirrus wireless solution
- Coverage: Google Cloud nested virtualization popularizes the technology
- Coverage: Commentary: Infrastructure Considerations for Machine Learning
- Coverage: DataCore Divides & Conquers to Increase SQL Server Performance
- Coverage: Riverbed’s Xirrus offers more than just connectivity
- Coverage: Taking Complexity Out of the Distributed Enterprise—Tech Field Day 15
- Coverage: Why the hybrid IT control plane is destined for the public cloud
- Coverage: How to deploy SkySecure hyperconverged infrastructure
- Coverage: Datacore Tech Field Day 15 Reap
- Coverage: Riverbed Tech Field Day 15 Recap
- Coverage: Actifio Tech Field Day 15 Recap
- Coverage: Scale Computing Tech Field Day 15 Recap
- Coverage: Ixia Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
- Coverage: Skyport Tech Field Day 15 Recap – YouTube
- Coverage: Cisco Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
- Coverage: Scale Computing HC3 Cloud Unity – Whats that about then?
- Coverage: Spartans and Servers and Storage, Oh My!
- Coverage: Scale Computing is Simplifying DRaaS
- Coverage: DataCore MaxParallel for SQL Server – Whats that about then?
- Coverage: Commentary: High Level Data Filtration
- Coverage: A Thank You to Tech Field Day
- Coverage: Inefficiencies of large systems
- Coverage: How to get started with OpenConfig and YANG models
- Coverage: Security From The Ground Up With Skyport Systems
- Coverage: Scale Computing Debuts HC3 in Google Cloud Platform
- Coverage: How to Build a Datacenter with Skyport Systems
- Coverage: 3 things infrastructure pros need to know about nested virtualization on Google Cloud
- Coverage: Cisco Gives SP Customers Programability Features in IOS-XR
- Coverage: Commentary: Returning to Fundamentals in Tech
- Coverage: Meeting of the Tech Minds – Tech Field Day at Riverbed
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
- Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Skyport Systems
- Coverage: Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
- Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Scale Computing
- Coverage: Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
- Coverage: TFD15 Primer: Datacore
- Coverage: Actifio, the Swiss Army knife of data
- Coverage: A new Tech Field Day is approaching
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
- Coverage: Ano opět – Tech Field Day 15 – Před odletem
- Coverage: TFD15 Tech Field Day 15 – Ermahgerd i’m going!
More Information
If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, info@techfieldday.com.
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