Tech Field Day
Encyclopedia
Tech Field Day is an independently-organized conference series centered on enterprise IT
infrastructure. Organized by Gestalt IT, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent blogger
s, freelance writers, 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.
Every Field Day event includes presentations by hardware and software vendors, but some notable introductions have also occurred at these events:
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
infrastructure. Organized by Gestalt IT, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent blogger
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
s, freelance writers, 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.
Every Field Day event includes presentations by hardware and software vendors, but some notable introductions have also occurred at these events:
- 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.
- Nimble Storage used the 2010 Seattle Field Day as their corporate launch event.
- ActifioActifioActifio is an information technology and software company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It produces software products for data storage, specifically a data protection product with integrated data backup and disaster recovery features...
used Tech Field Day 4 as their corporate launch event.
Events and Sponsors
The following Field Day events have been held:- Tech Field Day (November 2009, San JoseSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
) - 3PAR3PAR3PAR Inc. is a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard. 3PAR produces a range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management...
, Data Robotics, MDS Micro, NirvanixNirvanixNirvanix was one of the first Internet storage services and is now a cloud storage provider. Its current flagship product, Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network or Nirvanix SDN is a 'web-based platform for developers enabling quick and easy integration of scalable storage and delivery into any...
, Ocarina NetworksOcarina NetworksOcarina Networks is a technology company selling a hardware/software solution designed to reduce data footprints with file-aware storage optimization. A subsidiary of Dell, their flagship product, the Ocarina Appliance/Reader, released in April 2008, uses patented data compression techniques...
, SymantecSymantecSymantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
, Xsigo SystemsXsigo SystemsXsigo Systems is an information technology and hardware company based in San Jose, California, US and provides solutions for I/O virtualization to companies and enterprises... - Tech Field Day 2 (April 2010, Boston) - Cisco SystemsCisco SystemsCisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
, Data Robotics, EMCEMCEMC may refer to:In organizations:* EMC Corporation, an information management company* IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, a worldwide professional engineering society* Eastern Media Centre, a television channel in the UK...
, HP, VKernelVKernelVKernel Corporation, is a provider of performance and capacity management products for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized infrastructures. VKernel makes virtualization management software to simplify the tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance... - Tech Field Day 3 (July 2010, SeattleSeattle, WashingtonSeattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
) - Compellent, F5 NetworksF5 NetworksF5 Networks, Inc. is a networking appliances company. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development and marketing offices worldwide. It originally manufactured and sold some of the very first load balancing products...
, NECNEC, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....
, Veeam, Nimble Storage - Networking Field Day (September 2010, San JoseSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
) - Arista NetworksArista NetworksArista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The company designs and sells network switches for datacenter, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments...
, Cradlepoint, Force10Force10Force10 Networks , is a United States company which develops and markets 10 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It has offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.In 2011 Dell announced that they...
, HP, Juniper NetworksJuniper NetworksJuniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
, SolarWindsSolarWindsSolarWinds is a developer and marketer of network, applications, virtualization and storage management software.The company sells downloadable software products that maintain, monitor and troubleshoot IT networks...
, Xsigo SystemsXsigo SystemsXsigo Systems is an information technology and hardware company based in San Jose, California, US and provides solutions for I/O virtualization to companies and enterprises... - Tech Field Day 4 (November 2010, San JoseSan Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
) - NetApp, Aprius, Avere Systems, ActifioActifioActifio is an information technology and software company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It produces software products for data storage, specifically a data protection product with integrated data backup and disaster recovery features...
, Intel, SolarWindsSolarWindsSolarWinds is a developer and marketer of network, applications, virtualization and storage management software.The company sells downloadable software products that maintain, monitor and troubleshoot IT networks...
, Asigra - Tech Field Day 5 (February 2011, San Jose) - SymantecSymantecSymantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
, TBA, Data Robotics, Xangati, NetEx, InfoBloxInfobloxInfoblox, Inc. is a privately held developer and provider of enterprise network infrastructure automation software and hardware that provide DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NCCM network services...
, HP