Tech-Field-Day

Introducing Graphiant: The Future of Network-as-a-Service
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
As businesses continue to shift towards remote and distributed work environments, the need for secure and reliable network infrastructure has never been greater. Enter Graphiant, a …

IP Infusion powering the world from behind the scenes
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 2 min read
Founded by Kunihiro Ishiguro and Yoshinari Yoshikawa the founders of GNU Zebra, came together to form IP Infusion back in 1999 as a commercial-grade, hardware-independent …

VMware NSX is something something awesome
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day. Because of that, I really wanted to try something different. …

PNDA provides scalable and reactive network analytics
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
During Networking Field Day 15 our friends from the Linux Foundation, including Lisa Caywood, briefed us on a recent “acquisition” from Cisco. PNDA (Panda) is an open source …

Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 2 min read
Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event. Networking Field Day 15 kicks off April 6 and 7th in …

Ixia Vision ONE – Tap the Planet
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 2 min read
Whenever I start talking about network visibility and aggreagation taps I can’t help but think of The Matrix. Millions of packets flowing through your network every minute of every …

Forward Networks – A forward approach to formal verification
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
Forward Networks has stepped out of the shadows to announce their Network Assurance platform, and I was fortunate enough to be a delegate for Networking Field Day 13 to see their …

Networking Field Day 13 – Sneak Preview
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
This is going to be a busy week for the Tech Field Day family. They have delegates en-route to Tech Field Day 12 this morning, and Wednesday the crew for Network Field day 13 …

Cisco ISR 4000 – Now with more licensing!
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
This week at Interop NYC, Cisco launched it’s ISR 4000 Series. This is a new approach for them focused on delivering services to your branch offices. Cisco has dubbed this new …

HP talks SDN at Interop NYC 2014
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 2 min read
I generally try to avoid oversharing when it comes to my thoughts about presentations, but I have to mention that after sitting down with Glue Networks and their “SDN” …

Vendor PSA: Words and Phrases to Avoid in Presentations
- Tony Mattke
- Homelab & misc
- 2 min read
Over the years IT professionals have sat through countless presentations, conference calls, and keynotes. We’ve been preached too, explained “the problem”, and forced to bear …

Brocade and VCS… quite impressive
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
Our second visit on day 2 of Network Field day was Brocade, who incidentally supplied us with a great lunch! We spent a little time going through the expected marketing …

Juniper QFabric, Junosphere, Automation, and More
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 4 min read
The second day of Network Field Day 2 started early at the Juniper EBC, luckily Abner Germanow was prepared with breakfast for the weary and slightly hung over delegates. He gave …

Gigamon and the Great Pumpkin
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
I could’ve just as easily called this article Gigamon… fixing problems you didn’t know about or Why Gigamon scares the crap out of me — but I wont, because they already did! But …

NEC and ProgrammableFlow Switching
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
NEC is currently the only Vendor that is shipping an OpenFlow enabled product today. So naturally, their presentation led off with a message about what they’re bringing to the …

Network Field Day 2 — Comic Edition
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 1 min read
During the coarse of NFD2 I found an iPhone app called Halftone, and later, one named ComicStrip that allow you to add some fun effects and speech bubbles to your photos… So, I …

Cisco Systems Awesomesauce aka Full Tilt Boogie
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone from Cisco Systems for inviting us into the CCIC (Cisco Cloud Innovation Center), this was an amazing room to hold our …

The OpenFlow Symposium
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 3 min read
Well, here is the update that I promised you. I’ve spent the last few days with some of the top minds in Networking industry. One of the most exciting technologies being presented …

Tech Field Day: OpenFlow Symposium
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 1 min read
What is OpenFlow? OpenFlow is a proposed standard for exchanging flow data between controllers and networking devices. OpenFlow has the potential to move our networking control …

Networking Field Day 2
- Tony Mattke
- Industry & events
- 2 min read
Have you heard the news? You’re least favorite blogger is making the trip to San Jose California for Tech Field Day: Network Field Day 2 — I really want to add a dramatic movie …