Tech Field Day is an independently organized

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series centered on enterprise

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. Organized by Gestalt IT Media LLC, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent

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s, speakers, and leaders of online communities. The Field Day event series began in 2009 with a general datacenter event and expanded in 2010 to include an event focused on enterprise

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Notable Introductions

Every Field Day event includes presentations by hardware and software vendors, but some notable introductions have also occurred at these events:
Guardicore
explains why traditional segmentation solutions are irrelevant and talk about software defined segmentation
unveils User Identity Rules and FQDN rules
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Security Field Day 2 2019
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Data Robotics Drobo is a manufacturer of a series of external storage devices for computers, including DAS, SAN, and NAS appliances. Drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3.5" or 2.5" Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI hard disk drives ...

introduced their

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and

DroboElite Drobo is a manufacturer of a series of external storage devices for computers, including DAS, SAN, and NAS appliances. Drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3.5" or 2.5" Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI hard disk drives a ...

models at the 2009 Field Day as well as the

Drobo FS Drobo is a manufacturer of a series of external storage devices for computers, including DAS, SAN, and NAS appliances. Drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3.5" or 2.5" Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI hard disk drives a ...

at the 2010 Boston event. *

Nimble Storage Nimble Storage, founded in 2008, produced hardware and software products for data storage, specifically data storage arrays that use the iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols and includes data backup and data protection features. Nimble is now a sub ...

used the 2010 Seattle Field Day as their corporate launch event. * Actifio used Tech Field Day 4 as their corporate launch event. *

Druva Software Druva Inc. is a privately-held software company based in Santa Clara, California. The company provides SaaS-based data protection and management products. The company was founded in 2008, raised several rounds of funding, and grew to more than ...

used Tech Field Day 5 as their American corporate launch event. *

Zerto Zerto Ltd., through its main product the ''Zerto IT Resilience Platform'', provides disaster recovery, backup and workload mobility software for virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments. Zerto is co-headquartered in Boston and Israel a ...

and Embrane gave advance previews before their launches at Tech Field Day 6 and Networking Field Day 2, respectively. * Exablox used Storage Field Day 3 as their launch event. Also at that event, Fusion-io announced their acquisition of NexGen Storage and

Cisco Systems Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develo ...

first showed the next-generation MDS Fibre Channel platform.{{cite web, url=http://wahlnetwork.com/2013/05/06/building-a-monster-san-with-the-cisco-mds-9710-director/, title=Building a Monster SAN with the Cisco MDS 9710 Director, date=6 May 2013, accessdate=June 3, 2013, publisher=Wahl Network

References

External links

Tech Field Day homepage
Computer conferences

Notable Introductions

See also

References

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