This page will hold links to Tech Field Day 10, held in Austin Texas 3rd-5th February 2016. I am attended as a delegate.
- What: Gestalt IT Tech Field Day #10, invitation only vendor/blogger presentations event.
- Where: Austin, Texas, USA and streamed online at http://techfieldday.com/
- Twitter: Tech Field Day 10 Delegates List
Pre-Event Delegate Posts
- Justin Going to Tech Field Day 10 (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved on 25 January 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: Diablo Technologies (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 18 January 2016)
- Honored to be a TFD Delegate (Matthew Lieb, Virtually Tied to My Desktop Blog, retrieved 19 January 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: Dell (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 25 January 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: Rubrik (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 26 January 2016)
- Follow Along TechFiedDay10 #TFD10 Austin (Karen Lopez, Data Model blog, retrieved 26 January 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: Platform9 (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 31 January 2016)
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Rubrik
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: VMTurbo
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Diablo Technologies
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Dell
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: SolarWinds
- Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Caringo
- TECHunplugged Austin Is One Packed Event (Stephen Foskett Pack Rat Blog, retrieved 1 February 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: VMTurbo (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 1 February 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: SolarWinds (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 1 February 2016)
- TFD10 Prep: Caringo (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 2 February 2016)
- Coming to a livestream near you: Tech Field Day 10 (Joep Piscaer, www.virtualliftstyle.nl, retrieved 3 February 2016)
- Tech Field Day 10, Here I Come (Josh Luedeman, www.joshluedeman.com, retrieved 3 February 2016)
- It’s Time for Virtualization Tech Field Day 10! (24×7 IT Connection blog, retrieved on 6 February 2016)
Day 1
Platform9 presented on their OpenStack SaaS offering for putting OpenStack style management around vSphere environments. Videos:
- Introduction to Platform9 with Sirish Raghuram (Video)
- Platform9 Deep Dive: Leveraging Multiple Regions (Video)
- Platform9 Deep Dive: Storage Automation with Cinder (Video)
- Platform9 Deep Dive: Network Automation with Neutron (Video)
- Platform9 Customer Use Cases with Sirish Raghuram (Video)
- From Platform9 Labs: Towards a Polyglot Datacenter (Video)
Caringo presented on their object storage platform. This included an overview of the technology, a discussion of some internal features (such as the stateless data nodes) and the integration with S3. The presentations finished with FileFly, an archiving tool that allows data to be archived from Microsoft and NetApp filers into an object store.
- Introduction to Caringo Swarm (Video)
- Caringo Swarm Object Storage Cluster Internals (Video)
- Caringo S3 Features (Video)
- Caringo Integrations and SDK (Video)
- Caringo FileFly Overview (Video)
Diablo Technologies talked about Memory1, a non-persistent implementation of flash using the DIMM form factor. Although Memory1 is based on NAND flash technology it is actually memory extension solution that allows a server to address more logical memory than would have been otherwise possible. With NUMA on multi-processor systems, the benefits of using Memory1 are only outweighed slightly by the performance impact of using flash rather than DRAM.
- Diablo Technologies Introduction and Overview (Video)
- Diablo Technologies Memory1 Performance Benchmarking (Video)
- Diablo Technologies Memory1 Large Scale Spark Deployments (Video)
- Diablo Technologies Memory1 Advanced Media Management (Video)
Day 2
Dell use their TFD time to present the partnership with Nutanix. Dell is a supplier of hardware for Nutanix’s XC platform as well as to a host of other hyper-converged and SDS vendors.
- Dell XC SDS Strategies & Partnerships (Video)
- Dell XC Joint Technology Development with Partners (Video)
- Dell XC Series Powered by Nutanix (Video)
- Dell XC Acropolis and Prism Demo (Video)
- Dell OpenManage Systems Management Introduction (Video)
- Dell OpenManage Systems Management At-The-Server Management (Video)
- Dell PowerEdge VRTX Converged Platform (Video)
- Dell Extreme Scale Infrastructure Introduction (Video)
- Dell DSS Product Overview (Video)
- Dell ESI G5 Discussion (Video)
- Dell ESI Modular Data Centers (Video)
Rubrik, a startup company delivering scale-out backup hardware, presented a deep dive on their products and used the presentation time to announce the release of a new feature that allows the backup of physical servers. One of Rubrik’s key benefits has been the ability to back up without agents. As they move into non-virtualised solutions, making backups without deploying some kind of controlling software will be hard. This subject is discussed in the third video.
- Introduction to Rubrik with Chris Wahl (Video)
- Under The Hood: A Rubrik Technical Deep Dive (Video)
- Rubrik Protecting and Restoring Workloads Live Demo (Video)
- Rubrik Protecting Physical SQL Servers (Video)
VMTurbo was the final presenter of day 2. The company provided background on their solution (including a somewhat cheesy video) as well as some deep dives into the new features. The VMTurbo premise is based on the idea of buyers and sellers in a marketplace. This analogy is carried through almost to obsession, which created a certain degree of consternation with the delegates.
- VMTurbo Introduction with Ben Yemini (Video)
- VMTurbo Use Case: Public and Private Cloud (Video)
- VMTurbo Use Case: Hybrid Cloud (Video)
- VMTurbo Use Case: Multicloud Environments (Video)
Day 3
SolarWinds were the sole presenter for day 3. The company used their time to talk about new products in development and gauge potential interest, including Netpath, for network problem diagnosis, server configuration monitoring, application mapping and cloud infrastructure monitoring.
- SolarWinds Introduction and Strategy (Video)
- SolarWinds Inside the Lab: NetPath (Video)
- SolarWinds Inside the Lab: Server Configuration Monitoring (Video)
- SolarWinds Inside the Lab: Application Service Mapping (Video)
- SolarWinds Inside the Lab: Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring (Video)
- SolarWinds Product Model Discussion (Video)
Post-Event Delegate Posts
- Platform9, a whole new way to run OpenStack (Ray on Storage Blog, retrieved 6 February 2016)
- Diablo Technologies: A unique approach to In Memory Databases (virtuallytiedtomydeskop blog, retrieved 8 February 2016)
- Tech Field Day – Diablo Technologies (Everything Should Be Virtual Blog, retrieved 15 February 2016)
- Dell knows its job: real world solutions (Juku.it blog, retrieved 15 February 2016)
- OpenStack-as-a-Service With Platform 9 (Juku.it blog, retrieved 17 February 2016)
- Rubrik has a better idea for VMware backup (Ray On Storage blog, retrieved 17 February 2016)
- The Eigencast 009: Rubrik (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 17 February 2016)
- The Eigencast 011: Sirish Raghuram, Co-Founder and CEO, Platform9 (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 23 February 2016)
- Disclosure, TFD10 Edition (Justin Warren, www.eigenmagic.com, retrieved 23 February 2016)
- Can Platform9 solve fundamental OpenStack challenges? (Virtual Lifestyle Blog, retrieved 24 February 2016)
- A Platform9 architecture deep dive: is it still ‘simple’ OpenStack? (Virtual Lifestyle Blog, retrieved 24 February 2016)
- Can Platform9 simplify OpenStack by making it invisible? (Virtual Lifestyle Blog, retrieved 24 February 2016)
- Tech Field Day – #TFD10 – VMTurbo (Everything Should Be Virtual Blog, retrieved 24 February 2016)
- Can You Really Trust your Monitoring Software? (24×7 IT Connection blog, retrieved 24 February 2016)
- Software Defined Storage: What’s Uh, The Deal (Virtuallytiedtomydesktop blog, retrieved 5 March 2016)
- Infrastructure Monitoring Vs Cloud Monitoring (juki.it, retrieved 25 March 2016)
- Object stores? more, fast and small! (Juku.it, retrieved 10 May 2016, published 27 April 2016)
Related Links
- Object Storage Meets Tech Field Day (Caringo blog, retrieved 3 March 2016)
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