Tech Field Day Presenting Company: Aprius (http://www.aprius.com/) What is Aprius all about? That is a good question. Check out the link above for the corporate lingo. However, my take on what they are all about is… well… the topic of the post. Aprius, like many startups, have identified … [Read more...]
Runt Packet – Tech Field Day – Whats That All About
July 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and possibly even interesting. Tech Field Day This is short … [Read more...]
Drobo Performance Stats
December 2, 2009 by 1 Comment
Some discussions on twitter last week triggered the topic of performance relating to the Drobo’s. This is the 5th consecutive post on Drobo Series of products. To read other Drobo related posts: Drobo S and DroboElite – Introduced 11/23/2009 Some very interesting articles on Drobo S … [Read more...]
Considering Ocarina Networks Optimized Data For Virtual Environments
November 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Ocarina Networks presented to us during the Day 2 morning session of the GestaltIT Tech Field Day. Their presentation was a deep dive into storage compression and optimization. If you read my Ideas About Presenting To Engineers from earlier this week, then you’ll know what I mean when I say … [Read more...]
Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware
November 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided. As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo and presentation materials. Once … [Read more...]
Tech Field Day: Thoughts About Presenting To Engineers
November 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
GestaltIT Tech Field Day is over, and the attendees and sponsors have indicated they were extremely pleased with the event. This is not to say that everything went well the whole time. In fact, if you followed along on the social media conversation then you caught some interesting tweets and replies … [Read more...]