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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39. Wi-Fi Marketing Numbers are Lies - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 1
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All marketing is aspirational. Quoted throughput and user counts are hopeful at best. All IT professionals know this. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Kerry Kulp, Scott McDermott, and Mark Houtz as they discuss the inflated claims of marke...
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40. Networking Editorial IoT is Going to Make Things More Difficult - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 2
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IoT devices are growing by the thousands every day. Networks are gaining millions of devices every year and the total number is expected to top 31 billion by the end of 2025. Each of these devices are going to create complexity issues for networking administrat...
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41. Private Clouds are Coming Back - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 3
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The public cloud is real; are private clouds real? Will we see more private clouds in 2025? Private cloud technology is far from the early days when on-premises virtualization was cloud-washed. In this Tech Field Day Podcast episode, Jon Myer, Allyson Klein, and J...
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42. AI is the Leading Geopolitical Issue - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 4
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Artificial Intelligence has risen from a plain technical challenge to become the leading geopolitical issue in 2025. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded in advance of AI Field Day, features Dr. Bob Sutor, Mitch Ashley, and Jim Cz...
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43. 6 GHz Will Help IoT Adoption - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 5
The expansion of wireless spectrum technologies is affording new opportunities for growth. Existing areas are becoming more crowded as devices become more prevalent. This includes not only user devices but Internet of Things (IoT) as well. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Cheryl Co...
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44. Data is Making the Enterprise Network Better - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 6
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...
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45. The Network is Finally the Application - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 7
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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46. Technical Management is Not Real Management - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 8
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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 ...
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47. Trade Restrictions will Allow China to Out-Innovate US AI Companies - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 9
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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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48. AI Innovation Inevitably Drives Massive Energy Consumption - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 10
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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49. Not All AI Infrastructure is the Same
Episode 11
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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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50. Hybrid and Multicloud Applications are a Headache - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 12
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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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51. Production AI Applications with VMware Private AI on VCF - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight
Episode 13
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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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52. Servers Are Still Relevant in the Age of Cloud with HPE - Tech Field Day Spotlight Series
Episode 14
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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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53. Virtual Networks are Air Gapped - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 15
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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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54. AI Should Become Boring - Tech Field Day Podcast
Episode 16
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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UT08x04: Using AI for Sustainable Agriculture with Nature Fresh Farms and Solidigm
Episode 17
Much of the conversation on AI is focused on power consumption and chatbots, but there are so many other positive applications for the technology. This episode of Utilizing Tech, sponsored by Solidigm, welcomes Keith Bradley, VP of IT at Nature Fresh Farms, discussing with Stephen Foskett...