Matt Vogt
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Virtualization, Storage, Community
A personal view of the Virtualization, Storage and Sys Admin worlds and the communities that love them by Matt Vogt.
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How I Feel After Tech Field Day 7
Full. From great conversations, vendor product information, BBQ and cakeballs. Tech Field Day 7 was quite the event. I was able to meet a few people whom I've either followed on twitter or read their blogs for a while who have been influential in my development as an infrastructure professional. I also met others I was not familiar with who have already informed my thinking, and I can only assume that they will continue to be a great resource of experience and knowledge.
Speaking of the delegates, I want to thank Stephen Fosket and Matt Simmons for gathering such a great and diverse group of infrastructure professionals. Also, as one of the younger delegates, both in terms of age and experience, I want to thank the delegates for listening and taking the time to explore topics that were new for me.
I'm fortunate to be able to head straight to vacation right after TFD. Rather than head back to the crazy of work, I'll (hopefully) be able to better process what just happened in Austin. As I think back through the presentations and conversations, there's a lot of processing to do.
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Tech Field Day 7 - Austin, TX
Just got word Tuesday that I'll have the honor to be a delegate for Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day 7 focusing on Datacenter IT Infrastructure. The event seeks to bring together some of the industries great thinkers, authors, bloggers, influencers and vendors to engage each other. You can read more about the Tech Field Day at their site to get an idea of what these guys are about.
As excited as I am to get some pretty good face time with a few great vendors, I'm stoked about being able to meet some people in the IT community whom I've admired for quite a while. These are guys whose resources I've been reading for a while for a good deal of information as I've built up my knowledge and experience specifically in the virtualization and storage arenas. They are, in my mind, rock stars in the Datacenter IT world. I'm humbled to be brought in as a newer member of this event along side some veterans. The complete list of delegates is:
The event this time will be in Austin, Texas on August 11th and 12th. The sponsors are Dell (it's Austin, after all), Veeam, SolarWinds and Symantec. All vendors that I either currently use or have used in the past. Looking forward to our discussions, hands on experience and feedback with them.
You can follow all the madness on Twitter with the #techfieldday hash tag, by following the delegates from the official Tech Field Day 7 List or keeping up with the TFD7 Links page.
Thank you to Stephen Fosket and Matt Simmons for organizing this and to the vendors for their sponsorship and belief that this type of interaction with the community is worthwhile.
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