Notes from Tech Field Day, conferences, and briefings.
AI succeeds or fails based on context, trust, and freedom. QlikConnect made that unmistakably clear. Enterprises don’t lack AI ideas. What they lack is the context to guide action, the trust to justify automation, and freedom to adapt without introducing risk. This was the underlying message at this year’s QlikConnect conference. The vibe was pragmatic. […]
Read More… from Why AI Fails Without Context, Trust, & Freedom: QlikConnect 2026
I went to Austin ProductCamp this weekend. I got to give my presentation for Product Marketers on how to avoid AI-washing. It was great to have so many different people in the audience, even though none were product marketers. ProductCamp was a great place to network. Everyone was very friendly, and it was easy to […]
Today, Solidigm announced the introduction of the world’s highest capacity PCIe solid-state drive (SSD), the 122TB (terabyte) Solidigm™ D5-P5336 data center SSD. During the launch event, we attended a presentation on the new 122TB drives. However, the highlight for me was a panel featuring Solidum’s partners and customers. Throughout the event, I experienced a strong sense […]
Read More… from 122TB Innovation: Solidigm’s Data Storage Breakthrough
Earlier this month I headed to Kansas City with the Tech Field Day crewe to attend the SHARE conference. SHARE is the oldest enterprise user conference in the world, so it makes sense that attendees are people who manage mainframes. This post is a review of a Tech Field Day presentation from BMC that discussed […]
Read More… from From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Embracing Mainframe Modernization with BMC
I had the opportunity to attend Clik Connect last week in Orlando, Florida with the Tech Field Day crewe. The event was a chance for Qlik to showcase their new product enhancements, all of which centered around Qlik’s data-first AI adoption approach. But what sticks out in my mind is the Qlik Community. The Qlik […]
Read More… from Key Acquisitions Drive Qlik Community Growth
I was ecstatic when I was invited to be a delegate at the very first Edge Field Day. Edge is a weird term. Is it COLO 2.0, or about IoT? How do you get your arms around requirements for edge compute architecture? We found out at Edge Field Day 1. The line up was stellar: […]
Read More… from Edge Compute Architecture Explained: What You Need to Know
Today I’m live blogging Teleport Connect – Teleport’s first conference. I’m speaking later, but the talks are interesting! The Department of Yes Kevin Hanaford, Head Of Security Engineering @ Discord. Security has been traditionally seen as the department of no. Remember the old RSA keys and how clunky they are. Intention was to protect company […]
Here’s my 3rd post from Storage Field Day – Pure live blog post. Storage sustainability – Reducing carbon footprint Pure is working on being more transparent about how their arrays impact the environment. They started with a review of the industry. IT is 1% of worlds energy, that’s more than some countries use. Power use […]
Read More… from Pure Storage live blog post from Storage Field Day
Here’s my 2nd post from Storage Field Day – AWS live blog post. Overview In this section we got some of the business reasons to use AWS managed file services. For example, some customers want to move to cloud for file service because they don’t want to deal with the on-prem hardware anymore (procuring and […]
Here’s my my first live blog from Storage Field Day 24 – the Dell Live blog. Delivering a continuously modern storage experience Scott Delandy kicked off Storage Field Day with the presentation “Delivering a continuously modern storage experience”. He kicked it off with some revenue numbers. One third of Dell’s revenue ($34B) comes from ISG […]
