If it feels like the vulnerability dam just broke and patching can no longer save your team, that is not your imagination. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, host Tom Hollingsworth recaps Security Field Day 16, where automated bug hunting tools like Mythos have made exploit windows go n...

AI Field Day 9 marks the transition of artificial intelligence from experimental training labs to day-to-day enterprise operations.

On this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, Stephen Foskett breaks down key insights from enterprise infrastructure leaders and analysts—including CoreWeave, DDN,...

One thing was made very clear at Networking Field Day, AI should not and will not change the network on its own. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down the three biggest themes from Networking Field Day 41. While AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) domin...

Cloud Field Day 26 revealed a dynamic intersection between established cloud maturity and the fast-moving frontier of enterprise AI. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, event lead Alastair Cooke breaks down the critical shifts facing cloud teams today. From understanding why traditional ...

AI is moving beyond training, and inference is now the biggest challenge enterprises must solve. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, Alastair Cooke shares his biggest lessons from AI Infrastructure Field Day 5, explaining why storage has become central to AI performance, why GPU efficien...

AI is no longer just about chatbots and massive models, it’s becoming a full-scale enterprise infrastructure challenge.

In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways from Stephen Foskett, the biggest discussions from AI Field Day 8 focus on three major shifts happening across the AI industry. Fir...

The enterprise networking landscape is shifting faster than ever, and Mobility Field Day 14 makes that clear. In this episode of Tech Field Day Takeaways, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down three major forces reshaping the industry: the rise of agentic AI and autonomous operations that can now diagnos...

AI isn’t being limited by compute anymore, it’s being limited by the network. At Networking Field Day 40, Tom Hollingsworth breaks down how AI networking is evolving beyond traditional models and infrastructure. From the rise of “scale across” architectures to the urgent need for next-gen optical...

Backups alone are no longer enough — resilience is now the real goal of modern data protection.

At RSA Conference 2026, Tom Hollingsworth shared his key takeaways from Tech Field Day Extra, showing that data protection is evolving far beyond traditional backups. He highlighted three major trends...

What if the biggest lesson from Tech Field Day isn’t about new technology, but about how infrastructure is designed and managed? Alastair Cooke shares his key takeaways from Cloud Field Day 25, including why rising RAM and SSD costs are driving more efficient system design, why it’s important to ...

AI isn’t just about bigger models—it’s about data, networks, and where real business value actually happens.

Tech Field Day Takeaways returns as Alastair Cooke break down four key takeaways from AI Infrastructure Field Day, covering why massive data movement still matters, why data quality can’t...

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...