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AI is driving data center networking into a high-speed arms race, but severe supply chain logjams and enterprise realities threaten to stall the momentum.

⁠In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast⁠, host ⁠Tom Hollingsworth⁠ is joined by ⁠Scott...

Too many organizations continue to take a traditional approach to security and identity, even as AI agents are invited behind the firewall.

⁠On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast⁠, ⁠Vidya Shankaran of Commvault⁠ joins delegates ⁠Karen Lopez⁠ and ⁠Shala Warner⁠ to discuss modern workforc...

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...

Just because you can turn on standard power for your indoor 6 GHz Wi-Fi network doesn’t mean you should. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Wi-Fi experts Mark Houtz and Keith Parsons to debate whether indoor standard power is actually necessary. Whi...

Solar and battery electrification has become remarkably affordable and compelling recently, and can easily replace utility service.

This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features delegates Andy Banta and Paul Braren discussing their own implementation of solar panels, batteries, heat pumps...

As artificial intelligence rewires enterprise IT, the industry is quickly pivoting from speculative hype to cold, hard economic realities. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Alastair Cooke and Stephen Foskett to unpack the major drivers shaping tech...

Sovereignty in AI means having the ability to choose, to choose what is done with proprietary data, choose what model and choose where AI operates. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Jonathan Bryce from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) discussing sovereign AI with Ron...

We keep hearing about AI datacenters in space, and the incredible advances made with reusable space launch and solar power makes this seem feasible. On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, Ray Lucchesi, Scott Robohn, and Stephen Foskett discuss the challenges and benefits of orbital datace...

Adding generative AI to enterprise applications is exposing up to 20 years of technical debt in enterprise IT infrastructure and applications. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Sabina Anja from Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation team discussing the impact of AI with Andy Banta, ...

Unstructured corporate data needs some help to be ready for AI agents and inference. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Aron Brand from CTERA discussing unstructured preparation with Andy Banta, Barton George, and Alastair Cooke. The first challenge is to find data where it resid...

Are multi-terabyte GPUs and massive frontier models really the answer to enterprise AI, or are we hitting a hard wall of soaring memory costs and power constraints? In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Alastair Cooke sits down with technical experts Ron Pagani Jr., Andy Banta, and ...

As the explosive rise of AI workloads brings massive GPU clusters back to on-premises environments and surging neo-clouds, the race to maximize hardware utilization has made multi-tenancy an absolute necessity.

In this episode of the Tech Field Day Spotlight Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth sits ...

Imagine walking into the office, grabbing your morning coffee, and realizing your network dashboard is perfectly green because an AI agent silently resolved every issue while you slept. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth sits down with network practitioners Keit...

Enterprises are increasingly turning to open networking and they need guidance to ensure the right choices are being made. A great partner can ease the transition. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, brought to you by Cisco, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Scott Robon, Ryan Booth, and C...

Think you can just buy more GPUs to solve your AI infrastructure problems? Think again.

In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded live on-site at AI Infrastructure Field Day 5, host Alastair Cooke sits down with industry experts Ray Lucchesi, Frederic Van Haren, and Brandon Which...

The massive promises surrounding artificial intelligence are just history repeating itself. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast recorded on-site at AI Field Day 8, host Stephen Foskett is joined by Jim Czuprynski, Kate Scarcella, and Jeff Ello to debate the explosive world of AI hype. T...

Think your expensive GPUs are the biggest factor in AI performance? Think again. Without a high-performance data storage strategy to keep them supplied with data, your AI infrastructure can become an expensive machine sitting idle. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Alastair Cook...

Is the AI tech bubble about to burst just like the dot-com boom did? On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast ahead of Cisco Live 2026, host Tom Hollingsworth and experts Sam Clements, Ed Weadon, and Rob Coote look at the real state of enterprise AI. They discuss why tech giants are facing l...

AI is changing the way we maintain and troubleshoot networks, offering suggested fixes and knowledge about issues. But we aren’t ready to trust it in fully autonomous mode yet. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, Dan Ryan, Chris Reed, and Alan Wang join Tom Hollingsworth on-site at Mob...

AI networking is quickly becoming a critical part of the enterprise. You need make the right choice about which hardware you want to use but you aren’t necessarily locked into a single choice. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, brought to you by Cisco, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by S...

Now that AI has enabled us to have an unlimited amount of content, generated on demand and instantly, we find ourselves questioning the quality of the output. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded prior to AI Field Day by delegates Barbara Roos, Guy Currier, Dave Graham, and Stephe...

AI is everywhere in networking right now, but the reality doesn’t always match the marketing. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast ahead of Mobility Field Day, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Jennifer Huber and Megan Sorensen to break down what “AI-driven networks” actually mean in practi...

Is Mythos the future of cybersecurity, or just the latest AI hype cycle? In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast leading into Security Field Day, host Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Jack Poller, Karen Lopez, and Brett Wolmarans to break down the truth behind Anthropic Mythos model. The pane...

AI networking is driving innovation in the market like no other time in history. But the likelihood of all these advances filtering down into the enterprise is very slim. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, host Tom Hollingsworth and a panel of IT experts debate whether high-performanc...