[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 5 min read
Fear and Logging in Las Vegas
I'm headed to Tech Field Day Extra at AWS re:Invent to hear what AWS has to say about security, how it compares with Azure, and where the rest of the industry is going.
# categories
Tech Field Day
browse: /categories /series /tags /archive
[ Tech field day ] [ Security ] 6 min read
Commvault at TFDx RSAC 2026: Clean Recovery Is a Different Problem Than Fast Recovery
“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 ] [ Security ] 7 min read
Object First at TFDx RSAC 2026: If You Can Turn It Off, It Wasn't Immutable
“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 ] [ Security ] 6 min read
Veeam at TFDx RSAC 2026: Three Generations of Resilience (And You Need to Prepare for All of Them)
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 ] [ Tech field day ] 4 min read
Security Audits
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 ] [ Security ] 5 min read
Zerto
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 ] [ Security ] 3 min read
Security Field Day 2024
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 ] [ Infrastructure ] 6 min read
Uila: Visions of the Future
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 …
[ Networking ] [ Tech field day ] 5 min read
Glue Networks Changes the Automation Game
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Clare Boothe Luce According to a recently published survey by Cisco Systems, Inc., IT organizations spend 67% of their budgets on operational expense, and consume 80% of their …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 6 min read
ZeroStack — Simplified and Automated OpenStack
“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 …