The Tech Field Day staff have added live streaming from Tech Field Day 5 in San Jose this week. Tech Field Day always includes innovative companies and sometimes sees launches, but it's rare to have a company launch itself at an event like this. Nimble Storage was successful in using our 2010 … [Read more...]
See W. Curtis Preston’s Backup Central Live!
January 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
W. Curtis Preston launched his own series of Backup Central Live! seminars for 2011 Last week, after the Exec Event in Palo Alto, I joined my friend W. Curtis Preston for his first Backup Central Live! event. Curtis has spent years educating IT pros about data protection, this was the first … [Read more...]
Announcing Tech Field Day 5: Returning to Silicon Valley in February 2011!
December 15, 2010 by 1 Comment
Gestalt IT is pleased to announce our next Tech Field Day event. The Field Day delegates will convene in and around San Jose, CA on February 9 and 10, 2011. There, they will engage some of the most innovative and interesting IT infrastructure companies, with leading enterprise software provider, … [Read more...]
Overcoming The Limits Of Thin Provisioning With Automatic Provisioning!
December 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Most thin provisioning solutions are colossal hack jobs. How about real automatic provisioning instead? I’ve never been a fan of thin provisioning as a storage management tool. Don’t get me wrong, I love having thin provisioning in my toolkit to overcome the limitations of conventional … [Read more...]
Podcast 9: Compellent Roundtable at Tech Field Day
September 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This roundtable discussion focusing on storage maker Compellent is taken from Tech Field Day Seattle, held in July of 2010. The delegates dive into the topic of enterprise storage, reacting to Compellent's presentation of their products and technology. One of the most-interesting points raised … [Read more...]
GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics
November 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a variety of methods for reducing data … [Read more...]
What a Tech Field Day!
November 16, 2009 by 3 Comments
Our first-ever Tech Field Day event has now come and gone, and it was more successful than we could have imagined! Fifteen of the best independent IT infrastructure thought leaders came together in California for two days of in-depth discussion and evaluation of some of the hottest technology … [Read more...]