Tech Field Day Podcast
2 Seasons
The Tech Field Day Podcast brings together a group of IT technical experts from the Tech Field Day delegate community to discuss a single topic about key concepts in the industry from a variety of perspectives. Hosted by Tech Field Day event leads Tom Hollingsworth, Alastair Cooke, and Stephen Foskett.
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67. Re-Imagining the Mainframe for the AI Era at SHARE - Tech Field Day Podcast
As Tech Field Day heads to SHARE in Cleveland, we are considering the many ways the mainframe has been re-imagined and re-built for the AI era. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Cynthia Overby of Rocket Software and SHARE, Derek Britton, and Jeffrey Powers discussing the modern ...
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66. The DoJ Just Devalued Juniper Mist - Tech Field Day Podcast
The proposed remedies for the HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks did a real disservice to Juniper Mist. The confusion around what’s going on with the proposed Juniper AIOps for Mist auction have professionals asking a lot of questions. In this episode, recorded on the eve of the close of the acq...
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65. Enterprises Shouldn't Be Outsourcing Their IT Anymore - Tech Field Day Podcast
Enterprise networks are complicated but outsourcing all of the operations team doesn’t lead to better outcomes. It’s important to remember that enterprise covers a wide range of network definitions. In this episode, Ed Weadon, Chris Grundemann, and Jody Lemoine join Tom Hollingsworth as they disc...
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64. We Are Long Past Passwords - Tech Field Day Podcast
Passwords have served their use in the enterprise. We need to start moving away from simple passwords as an authentication mechanism. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Tony Efantis, Karen Lopez, and Fernando Montenegro as they discuss the premise that w...
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63. MLO is a Lie - Tech Field Day Podcast
Watch the Mobility Field Day Presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinuRwpnsHacvm_NA6qqs7RVHUXu9wNmP
One of the most anticipated features of Wi-Fi 7 isn’t ready for the public. Worse yet, it may never deliver on the promise of fast, reliable wireless connectivity. In this ep...
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62. A Different Type of Datacenter is Needed for AI - Tech Field Day Podcast
AI demands specialized data center designs due to its unique hardware utilization and networking needs, which require a new type of infrastructure. This Tech Field Day Podcast episode features Denise Donohue, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, and Alastair Cooke. Network design has been a consistent part ...
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61. User-Centric Connectivity Has to Innovate - Tech Field Day Podcast
Modern networking is being disrupted in the data center but user-facing networking has largely stagnated. Users are getting slightly faster connections but everything feels mostly the same. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Sam Clements and Ed Weadon as they discuss innovation in th...
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60. Cloud Economics and Scaling Smarter in the Age of Data Abundance - Tech Field Day Podcast
Keeping every application and every scrap of data on the public cloud becomes very expensive; we need to improve our cloud economics. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Vriti Magee, Mitch Lewis, and Alastair Cooke. The belief that data is the new oil has led many companies to ret...
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59. Compliance Does Not Equal Security - Tech Field Day Podcast
Enterprises require vastly different infrastructure for AI. When building your next network, you need to understand what is required in order to achieve specific outcomes. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Scott Robohn, Brad Gregory, and Ron Westfall to...
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58. The Unknown Unknowns of Cloud Providers with Catchpoint - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight Series
Learn More about Catchpoint at Cloud Field Day: https://techfieldday.com/appearance/catchpoint-presents-at-cloud-field-day-22/
Your Internet Application is full of unknowns, which will affect its performance and availability for your customers. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast features...
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57. Managing Hybrid Cloud Networks Complexity with Infoblox - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight Series
Managing hybrid-cloud networks is complex due to differing architectures and naming between on-premises and the multiple public cloud platforms. This Tech Field Day Podcast episode features Glenn Sullivan, Senior Director of Product Management at Infoblox, Eric Wright, and Alastair Cooke. Each pu...
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56. Wi-Fi is Fast Enough - Tech Field Day Podcast
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Modern Wi-Fi connections rely on more than just raw throughput to measure performance. The complexity of wireless as a medium makes the user experience more varied and creates difficulties in troubleshooting. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is...
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55. Quality Data is the Foundation for AI with Qlik - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight
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AI ought to be able to help businesses derive value from their data, but not all AI applications have a solid foundation. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast looks forward to Qlik Connect 2025, featuring delegates Gina Rosenthal and...
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54. AI Should Become Boring - Tech Field Day Podcast
Mature technologies deliver business value by integration into boring production applications, so AI needs to be boring. This Tech Field Day Podcast episode features Max Mortillaro, Guy Currier, Jay Cuthrell, and Alastair Cooke. AI has frequently been in the public news, many organizations are bu...
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53. Virtual Networks are Air Gapped - Tech Field Day Podcast
Networking Field Day Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd37/
The definition of traditional security technologies must evolve to meet new use cases. Networks that use virtual constructs to segregate traffic are just as air gapped as physical separation. In this episode, Tom Hollingswort...
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52. Servers Are Still Relevant in the Age of Cloud with HPE - Tech Field Day Spotlight Series
Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/tfdxhpegen12/
Although we live in a world of software, server hardware still matters from datacenter to cloud to edge. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast features Scott Shaffer, VP and Chief Technologist at HPE, discussing the evolution of the...
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51. Production AI Applications with VMware Private AI on VCF - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight
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See More Field Day Presentations from BroadcomYou already have the people and the platform to run production AI applications in your on-premises data center. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, presented by Broadcom, features Tasha Drew, Gina Rosenth...
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50. Hybrid and Multicloud Applications are a Headache - Tech Field Day Podcast
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Hybrid-multi-cloud applications have become part of the enterprise IT landscape, but they give me a headache. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast features Barton George, Mike Graff, Mitch Lewis, and Alastair Cooke discussin...
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49. Not All AI Infrastructure is the Same
Learn more by visiting the Networking Field Day Event Page on the Tech Field Day website.
Enterprises require vastly different infrastructure for AI. When building your next network, you need to understand what is required in order to achieve specific outcomes. In this episode of the Tech Field ...
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48. AI Innovation Inevitably Drives Massive Energy Consumption - Tech Field Day Podcast
The increasing reliance on technology has led to a surge in energy consumption, raising concerns about sustainability. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, California, Jim Czuprynski, Jack Poller, Andy Banta, and Stephen Foskett discuss the cha...
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47. Trade Restrictions will Allow China to Out-Innovate US AI Companies - Tech Field Day Podcast
Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd22/
China will out-innovate US AI companies because of the trade restrictions imposed on it. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast features Ned Bellavance, Eric Wright, Justin Warren, and Alastair Cooke. They say that necessity is the mother...
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46. Technical Management is Not Real Management - Tech Field Day Podcast
Being a manager of a technical team is harder than regular management because of the balance required to be both a leader and contributor. In this episode, Zoe Rose, Dominik Pickhardt, and David Penaloza join Tom Hollingsworth to discuss the challenges of being a manager of a technical team. They...
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45. The Network is Finally the Application - Tech Field Day Podcast
The network is, finally, the application in the public cloud. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded before Cloud Field Day, features Jon Myer, Michael Levan, Larry Smith, and Alastair Cooke. Deploying applications across multiple clouds requires the network be the common connect...
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44. Data is Making the Enterprise Network Better - Tech Field Day Podcast
The amount of data that has been unearthed in the network over the past few years is astounding. We now have access to more information that we could ever hope to want about the status of packets transiting through the enterprise. But is this data causing networks to be more complex? In this epi...