Haydn Andrews is a first time delegate coming to Mobility Field Day next week. He’s crossing an ocean to join us from Australia for the event. Before you see him on the live stream, be sure to check out this piece digging into his background. We can’t wait to hear what thinks of all the wireless goodness going on at Mobility Field Day.
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Meet Field Day Delegate – Manon (“Mae”) Lessard
Mae Lessard is coming to Mobility Field Day next week, so we decided to get to know her a little better. In this Meet the Delegates interview, we asked her how she got into IT, what she does in her free time, where she sees the industry heading, and more.
VMware Shows the Value of Preparation at Cloud Field Day
Sometimes life throws you a curveball. How you react determines how successful you will be. VMware’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 5 is a textbook example of this. Much of the day’s presentations were planned to be given by a single person. Jeremiah Megie, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware was planning on presenting at his first ever Tech Field Day event but was stricken by the flu just the day before.
Meet Field Day Delegate – Dave Benham
Dave Benham is coming to Mobility Field Day 4 next week! Be sure to check out our interview with him to get a little more detail about his background, where he sees IT going in the near future, and what he does when he’s not working in IT.
Cross Pollinating Catalyst Platforms with NetBeez
Containers are the new way to build software that can run anywhere. That’s especially true if you’re wanting to run software on a Cisco Catalyst Switch. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at how NetBeez is leveraging this capability to bring their exciting analytics solution to the platform.
Cloud Native Application Visibility and the Sysdig Way
When the underlying infrastructure is no longer the province of operations teams, cloud-native application visibility becomes an issue. Sysdig is off to a solid start with Linux container monitoring and have Windows containers as well as monitoring of serverless application monitoring on their roadmap.
Code It, Don’t Snippet
As Cisco presses DevNet Ops for network engineers, they had courses for every ability at Cisco Live in San Diego. This session covered the fundamental tools of coding with REST APIs.
Slicing Through Cloud Complexity with CloudGenix
Can SD-WAN really help organizations accelerate cloud adoption? Can SD-WAN technology end the dependence on costly hardware and instead focus on being truly software defined? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at the recent announcement of CloudBlades from CloudGenix and how it looks to help professionals leverage cloud software at the network edge.
Cisco Defense Orchestrator: Effective Security Policy Management Made Simple
Bruno Wollmann looks at how Cisco Defense Orchestrator offers some overdue respite to beleaguered security operations teams as well as comfort to CISOs, CIOs and CEOs trying to keep their organizations out of the news. If you are struggling with configuration management, device upgrades and overall security policy management, CDO may help end those struggles.
Morpheus Data 4.0 Extends Capabilities to Simplify Enterprise Cloud
Morpheus Data is one of the most complete CMPs available. With their 4.0 release including new features such as Kubernetes management and enhanced Ansible integration, Morpheus Data seeks to gain a lead on the competition. Ken Nalbone digs into more details about the release in this piece, and is looking forward to a deep dive by the company at Cloud Field Day.