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[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth — Mike Tyson One organization Chris Bevil worked with had a genuinely good disaster recovery program. Tabletop exercises, tested runbooks, the whole thing. When …
[ Tech field day ] 7 min read
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” — Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass (1871) I’ve lost count of how many storage conversations I’ve sat through where immutability …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated …
[ Security ] 4 min read
If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and …
[ Tech field day ] 5 min read
I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding. Many companies have product offerings in the security space, focusing exclusively on the data integrity and …
[ Tech field day ] 3 min read
In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time. Overseeing an IT organization requires you to think …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then nascent software company Uila has written a novel with their breakout software product for monitoring, and performing root cause analysis on, virtualized and …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” ~ Edward Tuft In the ever-so-neatly packaged and marketed buzzword bingo world that we know as “cloud,” there are two generally accepted …
[ Tech field day ] 3 min read
I’m sitting here watching an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and waxing contemplative on my recent invitation to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Virtual Field Day 6 . Both are being held in the same week, …
[ Tech field day ] 2 min read
“I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.” Susan Orlean Network Field Day 7 has long since come and gone, and it occurs to me that …