The history of information technology is bound up with hype. In this discussion, Tech Field Day 24 delegates Paul Stringfellow, Robert Novak, and Craig Rodgers discuss the endless parade of hype with Stephen Foskett. Whether it’s 5G or edge or disaggregated infrastructure or the cloud, every technology goes through a wave of hype before it becomes reality. How can we tell what a technology will really deliver and what’s just marketing talk? The famous Gartner Hype Cycle is more about marketing than the reality of technology adoption, and a product can be good or bad regardless of the amount of hype surrounding it. That’s one thing the delegates are watching for during the Field Day events! Amazingly, hype can even be productive in pushing change and adoption of new concepts, and even product development to meet these inflated expectations.

Craig Rodgers

Paul Stringfellow

Rob Novak

Stephen Foskett

@CraigRodgersms

@TechStringy

@Gallifreyan

@SFoskett

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In today’s ever-shifting enterprise IT landscape, when is the right time to completely respec your storage setup? Should you tear it all down and start over? Should you learn from the past and keep some of the old ways?

When it comes to innovating storage practices in a changing world, there are a lot of opinions on how to do it. Join host Stephen Foskett and his round table of esteemed guests from around the storage industry as they discuss these questions and more.

Wolfgang Stief

David Klee

Dan Frith

Ralph Ronzio (Pure Storage)

Stephen Foskett

@SpeicherStief

@KleeGeek

@PenguinPunk

@LoveYourStorage

@SFoskett

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Storage administration has always been about fighting bottlenecks, but today’s architecture means it’s time to embrace them instead. In this episode, our panel discusses the premise that it’s most important to match bottlenecks to the position in the infrastructure stack and application. One reason for this is the amazing bandwidth and low latency we have, thanks to Optane PMEM, NVMe, flash, and other technologies, but another is the emergence of new technologies that enable disaggregated architecture, moving storage closer to the application.

Christian Mohn

Rob Koper

David Klee

Stephen Foskett

@H0bbel

@50mu

@KleeGeek

@SFoskett

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Traditional IT architecture is a poor fit for modern applications and holds us all back. So-called technical debt can pile up, forcing companies to spend time and money supporting legacy infrastructure for the sake of keeping it running rather than moving the company forward. In this special episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, we discuss the modern application stack and how technologies like object storage and Kubernetes are allowing companies to break free from their technical debt once and for all.

Arjan Timmerman

Thom Greene

@ArjanTim

@ThomTalksTech

Shawn Rosemarin, VP of Worldwide Systems Engineering at Pure Storage. Connect with Shawn on LinkedIn or on Twitter @ShawnRosemarin

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

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Multi-cloud has quickly become a buzzword in the enterprise IT industry, but as organizations start to adopt multi-cloud strategies, their reasoning behind the switch may not justify the act itself. Although a multi-cloud approach can increase an organization’s availability, that alone doesn’t warrant introducing the complexity and costs that come with multi-cloud. Listen to this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast to hear how host Tom Hollingsworth and our esteemed guests unpack the concept of multi-cloud and uncover more impactful reasons than just high availability to consider adopting multi-cloud.

Ather Beg

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Tom Hollingsworth

@AtherBeg

@CalvinHP

@NetworkingNerd

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The world is starting to recover from the pandemic. People are starting to ask if it’s time to return to the office. And more than a few aren’t ready to go back. At the same time, employers are trying to find a way to get people back, and they’re asking questions about the infrastructure. Could new fast wireless access points be the tipping point? In this episode, we discuss whether or not new wireless networks are enough to bring workers back to the office.

Mike Wade

Landon Foster

Rocky Gregory

Tom Hollingsworth

@WirelessKahuna

@AceHighWiFi

@BionicRocky

@NetworkingNerd

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Cloud is the way that we consume our media, content, and even perform our jobs. We rely on it daily to live our lives. And cloud relies on services to ensure prompt delivery and reliable service. We know networking and storage are critical. What about the other services that we don’t always see? In this episode, we explore the importance of DNS to the way modern cloud operates and decide whether or not DNS is critical for the operation of modern cloud. Special thanks to BlueCat Networks for their partnership with this episode.

Larry Smith 

Ather Beg

@MrLESmithJr

@AtherBeg

Andrew Wertkin, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at BlueCat. Connect with him on Twitter @AWertkin

Tom Hollingsworth

@NetworkingNerd

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Cloud computing has transformed enterprise IT, but it is perhaps less obvious how traditional concepts like data protection and high availability have infiltrated the public cloud. In this episode, Cloud Field Day 11 delegates Max Mortillaro, Adam Post, and Thom Greene join Stephen Foskett to discuss the many ways that cloud computing has adapted to the demands of the enterprise. This has been called “inside-out” computing, since it takes the things that have been run inside the datacenter out to the public cloud, as opposed to the “outside-in” approach, which brings concepts like Kubernetes and DevOps to the enterprise.

Max Mortillaro

Thom Greene

Adam Post

Stephen Foskett

@MaxMortillaro

@ThomTalksTech

@Semi_Technical

@SFoskett

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With so much data at the average organization’s disposal, the task of storing it all — and storing it in an effective manner — seems to be quickly becoming more than humans can handle on their own. In this episode of the On-Premise IT Roundtable podcast, sponsored by Pure Storage, host Stephen Foskett is joined by Pure’s Prakash Darji, as well as IT luminaries, Gina Rosenthal and Chris Grundemann, to discuss how IT organizations can smartly manage their storage. SPOILER ALERT: it looks like it’s time to let machines like Pure Storage’s FlashBlade do the storage management work for us.

Gina Rosenthal

Chris Grundemann

@GMinks

@ChrisGrundemann

Prakash Darji, General Manager, Pure Storage Digital Experience Business Unit. Connect with Prakash on LinkedIn.

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

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With the rise of Kubernetes and other completely cloud-based deployments, on-premises data centers seem to be on the way out to make way for the scalability and dynamism of the cloud. Innovations in data center and AI composability showcased by Xilinx and Micron at the last Tech Field Day event as well as those displayed by Liqid at the recent AI Field Day event, however, might say otherwise. By defining infrastructure operations through software — much like how the cloud does — and building it on top of faster, more capable hardware, data centers can act at the speed of business, saving them from being outdated and outmatched by cloud-based infrastructure.

Frederic Van Haren

David Klee

George Wagner

Stephen Foskett

@FredericVHaren

@KleeGeek

@WeAreLiqid

@SFoskett

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