Tom Hollingsworth’s takeaways from Cisco’s Networking Field Day 39 presentation highlight Cisco’s push to simplify and optimize AI networking through a tightly integrated, end-to-end stack. Cisco emphasized maximizing GPU utilization by treating the network as a critical, lossless, high-bandwidth...

Alastair Cooke’s KubeCon 2025 takeaways highlight a shift from simply building Kubernetes to efficiently operating it at enterprise scale, with FinOps and cost optimization moving to the forefront through smarter autoscaling, tooling, and hybrid infrastructure reuse. AI’s role has become more gro...

At Networking Field Day 39, Tom Hollingsworth explored how AI, automation, and secure design are redefining enterprise networking. From agentic AI accelerating root cause analysis and automated remediation, to Graphiant’s overlay network-as-a-service strengthening data governance without sacrific...

In this episode of the Tech Field Day Takeaways series, Stephen Foskett, Organizer and President of Tech Field Day, shares three key themes that emerged from AI Field Day 7.

Special-purpose AI is reshaping enterprise IT, with examples from Articul8, Digitate, and Fortinet. Enterprises are incre...

At Cloud Field Day 24, Alastair Cooke highlights three powerful takeaways shaping today’s cloud strategies. First, keep your data close and your cloud closer — the proximity of compute to data is vital for performance, driving decisions between on-premises and public cloud deployments. Second, ri...

From hybrid clouds to AI-optimized arrays, NetApp demonstrated how enterprises can turn data into a true competitive advantage. In his key takeaways from the Tech Field Day Experience at NetApp INSIGHT 2025, Stephen Foskett explores how NetApp is transforming storage for the AI era. Key takeaways...

At Security Field Day, Tom Hollingsworth and the Tech Field Day delegates explored how DNS defense can disrupt modern attacks, why centralized identity management reduces risk and friction, and how security must move beyond the traditional perimeter as users and data shift to the cloud. We also w...

Alastair Cooke, event lead at Tech Field Day, shared his key takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day 3 in September 2025, highlighting a shift from experimentation to production-ready AI applications. He emphasized the importance of automated platforms that simplify deployment, the trade-offs ...

SHARE Cleveland 2025 brought the mainframe community together for a week of learning, connection, and innovation. Highlights included Broadcom’s AI/ML-driven WatchTower platform for smarter observability, PopUp Mainframe’s DevOps-inspired agility with instant environment provisioning and rollback...

On this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways from Networking Field Day 38, Tom Hollingsworth shares his key observations from the event and highlights the trends driving the future of enterprise networking.

He begins by noting a shift in focus away from the network operating system itself. Compan...

At Cisco Live US 2025, Tom Hollingsworth shared that Cisco focused heavily on AI, industrial networking, and SiliconOne. Cisco introduced AgenticOps, using AI and conversational tools to improve operations and boost security with deeper Splunk integration. In industrial networking, they released ...

In his key takeaways from Cloud Field Day, Alastair Cooke pointed to cyber resilience and data sovereignty as major forces shaping cloud modernization. Many organizations are keeping compliance-heavy and legacy applications on-premises, while adopting cloud as an operational model rather than a f...

Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead for Cybersecurity Research at The Futurum Group, shares key reflections from his first Security Field Day. He praises the event’s format, noting its effective balance of in-depth discussions, transparency, and private breakout sessions that encourage cand...

In this Tech Field Day Takeaways episode from Security Field Day 13, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down his key cybersecurity takeaways from the event. From Dell Technologies’ deep dive into end-to-end supply chain security, to Veeam’s innovative approach to modern data protection, Tom discusses how c...

Qlik Connect Presentation Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinuRwpnsHaeub7Fdxh1fkuoDP5-mYZRc

Stephen Foskett and the Tech Field Day delegates attended Qlik Connect to learn more about how Qlik is expanding its data capabilities. With the recent acquisition of Upsolver, Qlik is stre...

Watch Videos from MFD13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKrHCv5jArY&list=PLinuRwpnsHacvm_NA6qqs7RVHUXu9wNmP

Tom Hollingsworth shared his top takeaways from Mobility Field Day 13. First, large venue Wi-Fi is becoming essential for live events and a key area for innovation, highlighted by Fortine...

In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day, Alastair Cooke, shares key insights from the event, highlighting how AI infrastructure must align with each phase of the AI pipeline—from data ingestion to training, fine-tuning, and inference. Training phases demand hi...

HPE ProLiant Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLinuRwpnsHaf_s_gvj87SY2wr0qqvsD-G

Stephen Foskett gives his big takeaways from the Tech Field Day exclusive event with HPE discussing their ProLiant Gen12 line of servers. Server hardware proved it’s more critical than ever. With “the c...

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At Networking Field Day 37, key presentations focused on advancing the intelligence, security, and sovereignty of modern networks. Tom Hollingsworth’s key takeaways include BT’s look at the long-term impact of quantum computing on telecommunicati...

Alastair Cooke breaks down his big takeaways from Cloud Field Day 22. Hybrid cloud networking is inherently complex due to differing approaches among cloud providers, constant changes in deployments, and the ongoing responsibility for security. Understanding the fundamentals is crucial, requiring...