Category Tech Field Day

Hey everyone! Wow what a week ahead! I haven’t been down in Silicon Valley for at least a few months now and whoa what an adventure this week will be!

I am honored to be a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra at the Open Networking User Group Spring 2016 conference! And let me tell you, this will be quite a week of adventure and fun!

Our presenting sponsors, whoa, Cisco, HP’s Enterprise Division and Riverbed to talk about their SDWAN product/solution. It’s going to be quite the funfest of learning and educations!

I won’t be able to go into too many details at the moment but in post after things are rolling, my tweets will be a plenty and my blog will be explicitly detailed, to the best of my ability :)

And the vendors presenting are only half of the picture, my fellow delegates, OMG I am going to be surrounded by some of the finest minds in networking! <3

Be sure to check each of them out on the Twitters as they’re quite the crew to follow!

@BrandonCarroll, @Overlaid, @SharpNetwork, @RowellDionicio, @that1guy_15

So keep your eyes and ears peeled for some great stories, great content and great strides to the next generation of Networking! <3

Hey everyone! Wow what a week ahead! I haven’t been down in Silicon Valley for at least a few months now and whoa what an adventure this week will be!

I am honored to be a delegate for Tech Field Day Extra at the Open Networking User Group Spring 2016 conference! And let me tell you, this will be quite a week of adventure and fun!

Our presenting sponsors, whoa, Cisco, HP’s Enterprise Division and Riverbed to talk about their SDWAN product/solution. It’s going to be quite the funfest of learning and educations!

I won’t be able to go into too many details at the moment but in post after things are rolling, my tweets will be a plenty and my blog will be explicitly detailed, to the best of my ability :)

And the vendors presenting are only half of the picture, my fellow delegates, OMG I am going to be surrounded by some of the finest minds in networking! <3

Be sure to check each of them out on the Twitters as they’re quite the crew to follow!

@BrandonCarroll, @Overlaid, @SharpNetwork, @RowellDionicio, @that1guy_15

So keep your eyes and ears peeled for some great stories, great content and great strides to the next generation of Networking! <3

Well, we knew this day would come and lo and behold it is finally here.  For those who don’t know Tech Field Day is an event which brings together Independent Industry Thought Leaders with IT Vendors with interesting, innovative or otherwise compelling products to discuss.   The Delegates are bloggers, speakers, writers, podcasters and otherwise those who have a social presence with great influence on the products and companies as perceived by IT Practitioners.

We never knew if I’d ever make it as a Delegate because one of the ‘rules’ since its inception is simply… You cannot be a vendor.   Well, with the exception of the past two years in Afghanistan (couldn’t get away to delegate, so to speak :)) I was as Vendor as you could get with NetApp and EMC.   So finally, It’s here! I’m not only officially a delegate but I’m officially back into the game of an independent thought leader… The kind who likes to take things to the EXTREME to understand them and ensure I’m providing the most accurate picture of whatever I am talking about!

What are the details for Virtualization Tech Field Day 4?!

This ought to be fun.  January 14th through the 16th in Austin, TX we will be going toe to toe with numerous vendors!

I’ll be honest… the capturing of these company images kind of sucks, but it is what it is. At least they’re clickable! <3

But the best part, next to the vendors themselves honestly, has to be the various Delegates. I mean c’mon these are rockstars in their own right and it’s not a companies product which is as valuable as the insight these Delegates offer.

	Amit Panchal	@AmitPanchal76	Technical IT Manager and blogger at apanchal.com.
	Amy Manley	@WyrdGirl	12 years in IT, vExpert and an automation junkie
	Christopher Kusek	@cxi	CTO at @Xiologix – EVP of Engineering, Technology Evangelist, vExpert, EMC Elect, BDA, CISSP, MCT, Cloud, Ninja, Vegan, Single, Father, Cat, Humorist, Author
	Emad Younis	@Emad_Younis	Emad is a datacenter enthusiast, 2 x vExpert, and blogger @ emadyounis.com.
	James Green	@JDGreen	James is an independent blogger at www.virtadmin.com, a 2014 vExpert, and works as a virtualization consultant in the Midwest.
	Jeff Wilson	@Agnostic_Node1	Passionate yet disciplined virtualization & storage engineer in the SME market.
	Julian Wood	@Julian_Wood	Julian is a London based enterprise infrasstructure architect and blogger.
	Justin Warren	@JPWarren	Justin is a consultant and freelance journalist who enjoys coding in Python and words that are fun to say, like ‘llama’ and ‘shenanigans’.
	Larry Smith	@MrLESmithJr	19 yrs. in IT | 11 yrs. VMware virtualization | VMware NSX Nut
	Marco Broeken	@MBroeken	Dutch Virtualization Admirer and DaaS Lover, Blogger at www.vClouds.nl
	Matt Simmons	@StandaloneSA	Small Infrastructure IT Administrator in Academia
	Mike Preston	@MWPreston	3 x vExpert, blogger @ mwpreston.net and typical Canadian eh!

It will be a pretty busy schedule, but we’ll stay on top of it!

• Wednesday, Jan 14 – 09:30 – 11:30 –SimpliVity Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Wednesday, Jan 14 – 13:00 – 15:00 – Platform9 Systems Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Wednesday, Jan 14 – 15:30 – 17:30 – VMTurbo Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Thursday, Jan 15 – 08:00 – 10:00 – StorMagic Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Thursday, Jan 15 – 10:30 – 12:30 – SolarWinds Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Thursday, Jan 15 – 13:30 – 15:30 – CommVault Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Friday, Jan 16 – 08:00 – 12:00 – Dell Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4
• Friday, Jan 16 – 13:00 – 15:00 – Scale Computing Presents at Virtualization Field Day 4

And of course a hearty thanks go out to the Event Staff who make this possible, the beautiful Stephen Foskett @SFoskett and the dashing Tom Hollingsworth @NetworkingNerd 

So check it out as I know you will, not to mention the deeply grueling and intensive times I know I’ll be giving the vendors because I’ve been one and I know what it’s like ;) And be sure to check out the numerous blogs coming!