Tech Field Day

Tech Field Day
Genre	Information technology
Frequency	7 per year
Locations	Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Seattle, Denver
Years active	15
Founded	November 12, 2009 (2009-11-12)
Founders	Stephen Foskett
Organized by	Gestalt IT Media, LLC
Website	TechFieldDay.com

Tech Field Day is an independently organized conference series centered on enterprise IT infrastructure. ^[1] Organized by Gestalt IT Media LLC, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent bloggers, ^[2] freelance writers, speakers, and leaders of online communities. ^[3] 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. ^[4]

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 - at Security Field Day 2 2019.
• Data Robotics introduced their Drobo S and DroboElite models at the 2009 Field Day ^[5] as well as the Drobo FS at the 2010 Boston event. ^[6]
• Nimble Storage used the 2010 Seattle Field Day as their corporate launch event. ^[7]
• Actifio used Tech Field Day 4 as their corporate launch event. ^[8]
• Druva Software used Tech Field Day 5 as their American corporate launch event. ^[9]
• Zerto and Embrane gave advance previews before their launches at Tech Field Day 6 ^[10] and Networking Field Day 2, ^[11] respectively.
• Exablox used Storage Field Day 3 as their launch event. ^[12] Also at that event, Fusion-io announced their acquisition of NexGen Storage ^[13] and Cisco Systems first showed the next-generation MDS Fibre Channel platform. ^[14]

See also

• IT Leader Forum

References

1. Justin Warren. "The Rise Of The Small Independent Conference". Forbes.
2. "Tapping into blogger communities". 31 March 2010. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
3. "the gestalt are coming, the gestalt are coming!". The Storage Anarchist. April 6, 2010.
4. "On Gestalt IT's NetField Day". Archived from the original on 2010-10-12. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
5. "DROBO S and DROBO Elite – Introduced 11/23/2009". StorageNerve. January 2011.
6. "Drobo announces their new Drobo FS". 6 April 2010. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
7. "Does Nimble dedupe?". IT Knowledge Exchange. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
8. "ACTIFIO TO DISCUSS DYNAMICS OF DATA MANAGEMENT VIRTUALIZATION AT GESTALT IT TECH FIELD DAY 4 IN SAN JOSE". Actifio Press Release. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
9. "Why Druva is Like A Newborn Calf". Druva Software. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
10. "Zerto Offers Tech Field Day Delegates a Sneak Peek". Tech Field Day. 23 June 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
11. "Scaling Virtual Appliances With Embrane". EtherealMind. 12 December 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
12. "New startup Exablox announced at Storage Field Day 3". Tech Republic. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
13. "Fusion-io, NexGen CEOs talk acquisition, integration". Silicon Slopes. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
14. "Building a Monster SAN with the Cisco MDS 9710 Director". Wahl Network. 6 May 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.

External links

• Tech Field Day homepage