Posts Tagged ‘Tech Field Day’

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Boston

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Boston
The next Gestalt IT Field Day will be held in Boston between 8-9 April 2010.  Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend, however lots of great people will, including the following already confirmed:  Jason Boche – boche.net Carlo Costanzo – VMware Info David Davis – VMwareVideos Greg...
March 22nd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part I

My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed.  As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time.  It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted.  After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the DroboPro...
December 1st, 2009 | GestaltIT, Reviews | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Thin Provisioning and The Cookie Monster!

The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varying discplines. Following the presentations from 3Par and Symantec, there was heated debate about the implementation of Thin Provisioning and the ability to reclaim released storage resources. This post...
November 17th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics

GestaltIT Tech Field Day – Day 2: Ocarina, Nirvanix and Data Robotics
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...
November 16th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT, Personal Storage | Read More

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware
Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided.   As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo and presentation materials....
November 15th, 2009 | Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 0 – Continued…

Finally arrived at the DoubleTree in San Jose.  Met up with Devang, Nigel and Simon at the airport and shared a leisurely hour discussing our thoughts as we travelled to the hotel.  Thanks to Stephen and Claire for a great limo! Whilst checking in we bumped into Robin Harris in the foyer.  I’ve...
November 12th, 2009 | GestaltIT | Read More

Social Networking: GestaltIT Tech Field Day Confirmed!

No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed.  Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and Xsigo Systems. There are a select number of bloggers from...
October 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More