Tech Field Day

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Tech Field Day is an independently organized conference series centered on enterprise IT infrastructure.^[1] Organized by Gestalt IT Media LLC, the Field Day series is intended to bring together product vendors and independent bloggers,^[2] freelance writers, speakers, and leaders of online communities.^[3] The Field Day event series began in 2009 with a general datacenter event and expanded in 2010 to include an event focused on enterprise networking.^[4]

Every Field Day event includes presentations by hardware and software vendors, but some notable introductions have also occurred at these events:

• Guardicore explains why traditional segmentation solutions are irrelevant and talk about software defined segmentation, unveils User Identity Rules and FQDN rules - at Security Field Day 2 2019.
• Data Robotics introduced their Drobo S and DroboElite models at the 2009 Field Day^[5] as well as the Drobo FS at the 2010 Boston event.^[6]
• Nimble Storage used the 2010 Seattle Field Day as their corporate launch event.^[7]
• Actifio used Tech Field Day 4 as their corporate launch event.^[8]
• Druva Software used Tech Field Day 5 as their American corporate launch event.^[9]
• Zerto and Embrane gave advance previews before their launches at Tech Field Day 6^[10] and Networking Field Day 2,^[11] respectively.
• Exablox used Storage Field Day 3 as their launch event.^[12] Also at that event, Fusion-io announced their acquisition of NexGen Storage^[13] and Cisco Systems first showed the next-generation MDS Fibre Channel platform.^[14]

• IT Leader Forum

• Tech Field Day homepage