Notes from Tech Field Day, conferences, and briefings.
I don’t know about you, but for me August was really busy! I attended 4 conferences, spoke at 1, and hosted 1 event. This was on top of client work! Now I’m back in Austin and it’s time to reflect. I just can’t get past thinking we’ve seen our last VMware conference. A little history […]
Supercomputing 2020 (aka SC20) is happening November 9 – 19. It was supposed to be in Atlanta, but it’s online for the obvious reason. Tony Foster and I were lamenting that we weren’t going to be able to attend. Then we decided to build our own adventure to experience the event online. So we’re getting […]
I can’t believe VMworld 2020 is finally here! I have taken my own advice and treated VMworld this year as an online adventure. This post outlines the details for for my VMworld campaign. All times are in my timezone – Central. Gathering Places Gathering places are important when we are in San Francisco (or Vegas), […]
For the past several years, I’ve hosted a vLadies Nite at VMworld – a night for ladies where we have dinner and enjoy each other’s company. Even though VMworld is virtual this year, and we won’t get the chance to be together enjoying wine at a fabulous restaurant, our event is still a go on […]
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I participated in the TFDx PoweredUp event in June 2020. This post is a round-up of the content I created and my experience at the event. Before I get started, I should say that I was not paid for participating in the event, and I was not required to create any content as a condition […]
During TechField Day, we discovered how Dell EMC Isilon tackles unstructured data challenges with its scale-out NAS and cloud integration. […]
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Recapping what we learned at TechField Day: Tiger Bridge, a seamless cloud tiering solution for secure and scalable media storage. […]
Disclosure: I was invited by GestaltIT as a delegate to their Storage Field Day 19 event from Jan 22-24, 2020 in the Silicon Valley CA. My expenses, travel, accommodation and conference fees were covered by GestaltIT, the organizer. I was not obligated to blog or promote the vendors’ technologies. The content of this blog is […]
I’m excited that I have been invited to be a delegate at Storage Field Day 19. This is a little different than the Tech Field Day I attended in 2019, because the focus of all the presentations at this event is data storage. I am looking forward to this because I am a storage person. […]
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This post – NetApp Goes to the Cloud – is my review of materials presented at #TFD20. NetApp’s 1st presentation at #TFD20 was about NetApp’s cloud strategy. I was very excited to see Nick Howell (aka @DatacenterDude), NetApp’s Global Field CTO for Cloud Data Services, there to greet us and kick things off. I’ve always […]
