Tech Field Day Podcast
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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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
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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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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...
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43. 6 GHz Will Help IoT Adoption - Tech Field Day Podcast
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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42. AI is the Leading Geopolitical Issue - Tech Field Day Podcast
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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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41. Private Clouds are Coming Back - Tech Field Day Podcast
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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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40. Networking Editorial IoT is Going to Make Things More Difficult - Tech Field Day Podcast
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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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39. Wi-Fi Marketing Numbers are Lies - Tech Field Day Podcast
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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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38. Technology Silos are a Thing of the Past - Tech Field Day Podcast
Enterprise IT has long been divided into silos. This is because of scarce resources and specialized knowledge required to perform some IT operations tasks. The world of today is much more focused on outcomes and the need for silos is waning. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, Stephen ...
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37. Acquisitions are a Necessary Evil - Tech Field Day Podcast
The IT industry’s reliance on acquisitions is a necessary driver of innovation, though they often seem to get in the way of competition and progress. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded during Cloud Field Day 21, features Ray Lucchesi, Jon Hildebrand, Ken Nalbone, and Stephen Fos...
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36. There’s a Gulf Between Storage and AI - Tech Field Day Podcast
There is a significant gap between storage companies and their ability to effectively support AI infrastructure. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded during the AI Data Infrastructure Field Day 2 in Santa Clara, host Stephen Foskett and guests Kurtis Kemple, Brian Booden, and R...
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35. Snowflake Networks are Built to Break - Tech Field Day Podcast
Network engineers are notorious for doing whatever it takes to keep their customers and users happy. No reference architecture is safe from modification. However, these unique designs, commonly referred to as "snowflakes", create challenges when unforeseen consequences occur. In this episode of t...
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34. WiFi is Always the Best Solution - Tech Field Day Podcast
Wi-Fi is the most dominant client connectivity option on the market today. The growth of ubiquitous computing has only happened because of the mass deployment of Wi-Fi. However, Wi-Fi isn’t the only wireless solution and isn’t always the best way to connect devices. In this episode, Tom Hollingsw...
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33. AI Doesn't Make App Dev Any Better - Tech Field Day Podcast
Generative AI is transforming many industries where people create content. Software development is no different; AI agents are in almost every development platform. But is AI improving application development and software quality? This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast looks at some of the is...
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32. AI is the Enabler of Network Innovation - Tech Field Day Podcast
Artificial Intelligence is creating the kind of paradigm shifts not seen since the cloud revolution. Everyone is changing the way their IT infrastructure operates in order to make AI work better. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by John Freeman, Scott Rob...
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31. Edge Computing is a Melting Pot of Technology - Tech Field Day Podcast
Edge computing is one of the areas where we see startup vendors offering innovative solutions, enabling applications to operate where the business operates rather than where the IT team sit. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast focuses on the melting pot of edge computing and features Guy C...
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30. There are Too Many Clouds - Tech Field Day Podcast
Public Cloud computing is a large part of enterprise IT alongside on-premises computing. Many organizations that had a cloud-first approach and are now gaining value from on-premises private clouds and seeing their changing business needs leading to changing cloud use. This episode of the Tech Fi...
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29. You Don’t Need Post-Quantum Crypto Yet - Tech Field Day Podcast
With the advent of quantum computers, the likelihood that modern encryption is going to be invalidated is a possibility. New standards from NIST have arrived that have ushered in the post-quantum era. You don’t need to implement them yet but you need to be familiar with them. Tom Hollingsworth is...
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28. Network Automation Is More Than Just Tooling with Mike Bushong of Nokia - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight Series
The modern enterprise network automation strategy is failing. This is due in part to a collection of tools masquerading as an automation solution. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Scott Robohn, Bruno Wollmann, and special guest Mike Bushong of Nokia to discuss the current state of ...
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27. Data Infrastructure Is A Lot More Than Storage - Tech Field Day Podcast
The rise of AI and the importance of data to modern businesses has driven us too recognize that data matters, not storage. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast focuses on AI data infrastructure and features Camberley Bates, Andy Banta, David Klee, and host Stephen Foskett, all of whom will ...
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26. AI and Cloud Demand a New Approach to Cyber Resilience featuring Commvault - Tech Field Day Podcast Spotlight Series
As companies are exposed to more and more attackers, they're realizing that cyber resilience is increasingly important. On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, presented by Commvault, Senior Director of Product and Ecosystem Strategy Michael Stempf joins Justin Warren, Karen Lopez, and Ste...
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25. Hardware Still Matters at the Edge - Tech Field Day Podcast