Cloud technology is moving fast, and Cloud Field Day 26 is ready to take a closer look at what comes next.

On September 23rd and 24th, Alastair Cooke will be joined by technology experts, delegates, and leading vendors for two days of conversations covering cloud-native security, AI agents, pri...

Vibe coding and AI assistants promise to turbocharge IT infrastructure deployment, but can generative tools truly replace human discipline, rigorous testing, and engineering experience?In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Alastair Cooke is joined by industry experts Pete Welcher an...

Akshay Joshi and Jeff Cassiana introduce Clumio as a SaaS-first cyber-resilience solution that provides cloud data protection and in-place recovery for modern data pipelines. Founded in 2017 and acquired by Commvault in 2024, Clumio has expanded its cloud-native support across workloads like Amaz...

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and rebuildi...

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and rebuildi...

Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, recovery can require full restores, temporary resources, application reconfiguration, and the reco...

In this Cloud Field Day 26 session, Reza Koohrangpour, head of product marketing at Selector, introduced the company and framed the problem it aims to solve in bringing cloud and network operations together. He explained that Selector's founders previously led switching and routing at Juniper and...

Reza Koohrangpour of Selector framed hybrid cloud observability as an operational problem more than a technological one. Each cloud provider, whether AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, brings its own services, data models, and telemetry, while the enterprise side adds SNMP and other traditional network...

Reza Koohrangpour describes Selector's answer to the hybrid observability problem as three capabilities built on a horizontal architecture: collection, correlation, and collaboration. Selector collects data from more than 300 heterogeneous sources into one unified store, covering cloud accounts, ...

In this Cloud Field Day 26 session, Sirish Kondi, who leads the data infrastructure team at Selector, walked through the engineering behind the platform's hybrid cloud capabilities using a scenario in which an on-call engineer is alerted that a Dallas application is no longer reachable. On-premis...

John Heintz, who leads Selector's pre-sales engineering team, demonstrates how an operator would use the platform to troubleshoot application reachability problems whose causes are hidden across hybrid infrastructure. In the first scenario, an operator named Michael receives a Slack alert (Servic...

Frontier AI has compressed threat timelines, allowing attackers to weaponize vulnerabilities in hours rather than months. For enterprise infrastructure, running production AI requires a fundamental engineering pivot: prioritizing continuous platform hardening over rapid feature delivery. In this ...

GPUs represent a massive capital investment, yet enterprise AI initiatives frequently struggle with underutilized hardware, fragmented access, and low compute efficiency. Unlocking true return on investment requires hardware-aware virtualization and dynamic resource orchestration. In this technic...

A private cloud delivers its economic promise only when IT teams actively manage capacity, rightsizing, and operational visibility. Without proper governance, overprovisioning and dark capacity can quickly erode the financial advantages of on-premises infrastructure. This practitioner-focused ses...

How and why to approach a hybrid setup for managing video collaboration in Azure/AWS/GCP, differences from full SaaS out of the box, and manipulating call signaling behaviors. A niche UC topic, but also an underappreciated one. Doug Schaefer, CTO at the value-added reseller American Sound and a f...

Moderator Alastair Cooke opened the Cloud Field Day 26 delegate roundtable by noting how much the meaning of "cloud" has shifted over 26 editions, and the delegates quickly agreed on the event's defining theme: a far more mature, nuanced approach to AI. Chris Williams said the era of vendors simp...

Cloud Field Day 26 revealed a dynamic intersection between established cloud maturity and the fast-moving frontier of enterprise AI. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, event lead Alastair Cooke breaks down the critical shifts facing cloud teams today. From understanding why traditional ...

From mainframes and virtualization to containers and generative AI, every transformative technology follows the exact same trajectory: initial euphoria, peak skepticism, and eventual practical reality. At Cloud Field Day, host Alastair Cooke catches up with longtime collaborator Chris Williams to...