Tech Field Day is an independently organized
conference
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Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main p ...
series centered on enterprise
IT infrastructure
Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also variou ...
. Organized by Gestalt IT Media LLC, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent
blog
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gers,
freelance writer
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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
networking.
Notable Introductions
Every Field Day event includes presentations by hardware and software vendors, but some notable introductions have also occurred at these events:
Guardicoreexplains why traditional segmentation solutions are irrelevant and talk about software defined segmentation
unveils User Identity Rules and FQDN rules- a
Security Field Day 2 2019
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Data Robotics introduced their
Drobo S and
DroboElite models at the 2009 Field Day as well as the
Drobo FS at the 2010 Boston event.
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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.
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Actifio
Actifio was a privately held information technology firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specialised in copy data virtualization for making information technology infrastructure more efficient by reducing unnecessary duplicati ...
used Tech Field Day 4 as their corporate launch event.
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Druva Software used Tech Field Day 5 as their American corporate launch event.
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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.
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Exablox used Storage Field Day 3 as their launch event. Also at that event,
Fusion-io
Fusion-io, Inc. was a computer hardware and software systems company (acquired by SanDisk Corporation in 2014) based in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, that designed and manufactured products using flash memory technology. The Fusion was marketed ...
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]
See also
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IT Leader Forum
References
External links
Tech Field Day homepage
Computer conferences