Tech Field Day Podcast

102. Networking Needs More Telemetry

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Networking Field Day 40 here. Telemetry has become a critical component of modern networking, but organizations need better ways to h...

101. The Internet Still Delivers Massive Public Good

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about ⁠Cloud Field Day 25 here⁠.The Internet is often characterized as full of cat pictures and manipulative social media, yet the Inte...

SPOTLIGHT: Making Agentic AI Real for Business Intelligence with Qlik

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more and register for Qlik Connect here.Generative AI is more connected to the world of business intelligence and data analytics than any other ...

99. Data Protection Needs To Do More

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Tech Field Day at RSAC here.Data Protection is a critical component of security but it needs more features to meet the challenges of ...

Rising Memory & Storage Costs Make On-Prem Hardware Uneconomical

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Cloud Field Day 25 here.The rising cost of memory and storage, driven by the massive AI build out, might make on-premises datacenters...

Security Is More Than AI in 2026

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There’s more to security than AI models and keeping them safe. Identity and user security are sure to be hot topics during this year’s RSAC Confer...

96. Don’t Give Your AI Agent the Keys to Your Business

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The rise and fall of MoltBot is a sign that AI Agents are being rushed to deployment. How much of your data can you trust to AI Agents? In this episod...

SPOTLIGHT: AI Tooling is Causing Identity Security Issues with 1Password

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of AI tooling and agents in the enterprise has created a gap with identity security platforms. Addressing that gap remains challenging when s...

SPOTLIGHT: AI Has Escaped Your Datacenter Presented by Cisco

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 here. AI has driven your datacenter designs and is now moving outwards through your whole network. This...

93. Billion-Dollar AI Headlines Obscure Real Business Value

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 here. The big headlines that we're seeing around the massive funding of large AI companies  are a ...

92. AI Needs Resource Efficiency

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 here. As we build out AI infrastructure and applications we need resource efficiency, continuously buyi...

91. Your Security Strategy Needs Graphs

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

View upcoming ⁠Tech Field Day events here⁠. Modern security needs more than checklists. Instead of working down a process you need to start thinki...

SPOTLIGHT: Modern Data Mobility is Challenging the Laws of Physics with Hammerspace

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Watch the Hammerspace presentations from AI Infrastructure Field Day here. Learn more about Hammerspace on their website hereModern data mobility is c...

89. 2026 Is A Bright Year for HPE and Juniper

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

View upcoming Tech Field Day events here. 2025 was a big year for both HPE and Juniper, but 2026 is the year when the real integration starts. In this...

88. Tech Field Day Takeaways for 2025: Making AI Less Manic

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Check out upcoming Tech Field Day events on our website.2025 was the year of AI Mania. Everyone wants you to know where they stand with AI in their pr...

87. Generative AI Coding Tools Make Enterprise Applications Worse

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is writing a large proportion of modern software and Generative AI coding tools make enterprise applications worse. This episode of the Tech Field ...

Network Automation Needs Standards

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Watch presentations from Networking Field Day 39 here. Automation is the best way to scale network deployment and operations. But the lack of formal s...

85. Simplification of IT is Really an Illusion

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Watch the presentations from Cloud Field Day 24 here.Simplification in IT is an illusion; increasing complexity outpaces every effort to simplify. Thi...

SPOTLIGHT: Simplification in IT is really an illusion

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Watch Infoblox and more Security Field Day 14 videos here.DNS security is no longer optional. This service is not only being attacked by nefarious act...

83. Well Managed Kubernetes Means Infrastructure Finally Doesn’t Matter

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Tech Field Day Experience at KubeCon here.In a world of well-managed Kubernetes, we hoped that infrastructure finally wouldn’t matt...

82. NetAIOps Has Its Challenges

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Networking Field Day 39 here.The industry has embraced AI for every possible problem. Operations will eventually embrace it as well b...

81. Ready or Not, AI is Coming to the Enterprise

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Field Day 7 on our website.Despite widespread skepticism, AI is already widely used in the enterprise, often in the form of so-cal...

80. Private Cloud is Not just Self-Service Virtualization

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Cloud Field Day 24 here. Private cloud is not just virtualization 4.0, self-service VM deployment doesn’t fulfil the same need as t...

SPOTLIGHT: Your Edge Projects will Fail Without Fleet Lifecycle Management with ZEDEDA

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Projects to deliver applications to edge locations will fail without comprehensive fleet lifecycle management. This episode of the Tech Field Day podc...

SPOTLIGHT: Every AI Strategy Needs a Data Protection Strategy with Commvault

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More Information on Commvault ShiftEvery company lives in fear of a ransomware attack, whether they have suffered one or not, and this is even more cr...

SPOTLIGHT. Moving Enterprise AI Applications From Experiments to Production with NetApp

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More information on NetApp InsightRunning enterprise applications in production is a lot different from the AI experiments many of us have been involv...

76. Passkeys are the Future

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Security Field Day here.Passwords create friction and therefore users find ways around them. New technology such as secure enclaves a...

SPOTLIGHT. Unified Flash Memory and Reduced HBM are Reshaping AI Training and Inference with Phison

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI will need less HBM (high bandwidth memory) because flash memory unification is changing training and inference. This episode of the Tech Field Day ...

74. Software is Automating Your AI Data Centre Infrastructure

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Infrastructure Field Day 3 here.Hardware always matters, especially in AI and now software is automating your AI data centre infra...

73. Agentic AI Spells the End of Dial Twiddlers

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You aren’t in the business of twiddling the dials, even though the dials may still be important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features...

SPOTLIGHT: Networks Need Agentic AI with HPE Juniper Networking

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Agentic AI is reshaping the IT landscape and networking is no exception. Building upon the previous research into machine learning means we have a hea...

SPOTLIGHT: SASE Makes Convergence Simple with HPE Aruba Networking

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Converged networking is creating complexity with network operations and engineering teams. Ensuring that users are able to access resources and comple...

70. Early Adoption of Generative AI Helps Control Costs with Signal65

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you haven’t already, start working with Generative AI now and make sure to control your ongoing costs. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast...

SPOTLIGHT: Datacenter Networking Needs AIOps with HPE Juniper Networks

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise networking is too large and complex, we need AI Operations. This spotlight episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Bob Friday and Be...

68. Network Engineers are Facing an Identity Crisis

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Network engineers are the firefighters and knowledge bases of enterprise IT, however the role of a network engineer is rapidly evolving. With the rise...

67. Re-Imagining the Mainframe for the AI Era at SHARE

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Tech Field Day heads to SHARE in Cleveland, we are considering the many ways the mainframe has been re-imagined and re-built for the AI era. This e...

66. The DoJ Just Devalued Juniper Mist

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The proposed remedies for the HPE acquisition of Juniper Networks did a real disservice to Juniper Mist. The confusion around what’s going on with t...

65. Enterprises Shouldn't Be Outsourcing Their IT Anymore

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise networks are complicated but outsourcing all of the operations team doesn’t lead to better outcomes. It’s important to remember that en...

64. We Are Long Past Passwords

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Passwords have served their use in the enterprise. We need to start moving away from simple passwords as an authentication mechanism. In this episode ...

63. MLO is a Lie

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Watch the Presentations from Mobility Field Day here.One of the most anticipated features of Wi-Fi 7 isn’t ready for the public. Worse yet, it may n...

62. A Different Type of Datacenter is Needed for AI

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More from the AI Infrastructure Field Day PresentationsAI demands specialized data center designs due to its unique hardware utilization and net...

61. User-Centric Connectivity Has to Innovate

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Tech Field Day at Cisco Live!Modern networking is being disrupted in the data center but user-facing networking has largely stagnated...

60. Scaling Smarter Optimizes Cloud Costs in the Age of Data Abundance

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More about Cloud Field Day 23Keeping every application and every scrap of data on the public cloud becomes very expensive; we need to improve ou...

59. Compliance Does Not Equal Security

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/xfd13/Compliance reinforces the state of security in your organization. However, compliance in and of itsel...

SPOTLIGHT. The Unknown Unknowns of Cloud Providers with Catchpoint

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More about Catchpoint at Cloud Field DayYour Internet Application is full of unknowns, which will affect its performance and availability for yo...

SPOTLIGHT. Managing Hybrid Cloud Networks Complexity with Infoblox

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More about Infoblox at Cloud Field DayManaging hybrid-cloud networks is complex due to differing architectures and naming between on-premises an...

56. Wi-Fi is Fast Enough

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More about Mobility Field Day 13Modern Wi-Fi connections rely on more than just raw throughput to measure performance. The complexity of wireles...

SPOTLIGHT: Quality Data is the Foundation for AI with Qlik

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Register for Qlik Connect: https://www.qlikconnect.com/AI ought to be able to help businesses derive value from their data, but not all AI application...

54. AI Needs to be Boring

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about AI Infrastructure Field Day 2Mature technologies deliver business value by integration into boring production applications, so AI nee...

53. Virtual Networks are Air Gapped

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about Networking Field Day 37The definition of traditional security technologies must evolve to meet new use cases. Networks that use virtu...

SPOTLIGHT: Servers Are Still Relevant in the Age of Cloud with HPE

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/tfdxhpegen12/Although we live in a world of software, server hardware still matters from datacenter to clou...

SPOTLIGHT: Production AI Applications with VMware Private AI on VCF with Broadcom

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn More about Broadcom and VMwareSee More Field Day Presentations from BroadcomYou already have the people and the platform to run production AI ap...

50. Hybrid and Multicloud Applications are a Headache

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd22/Hybrid-multi-cloud applications have become part of the enterprise IT landscape, but they give me a h...

49. Not All AI Infrastructure is the Same

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd37/Enterprises require vastly different infrastructure for AI. When building your next network, you need...

48. AI Innovation Inevitably Drives Massive Energy Consumption

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI Field Day 6 Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aifd6/The increasing reliance on technology has led to a surge in energy consumption, raisin...

47. Trade Restrictions will Allow China to Out-Innovate US AI Companies

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd22/China will out-innovate US AI companies because of the trade restrictions imposed on it. In this epis...

46. Technical Management is Not Real Management

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/clemea25/Being a manager of a technical team is harder than regular management because of the balance requi...

45. The Network is Finally the Application

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd22/The network is, finally, the application in the public cloud. In this episode of the Tech Field Day P...

44. Data is Making the Enterprise Network Better

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page:https://techfieldday.com/event/clemea25/The amount of data that has been unearthed in the network over the past few years is astounding. We...

43. 6GHz Will Help IoT Adoption

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The expansion of wireless spectrum technologies is affording new opportunities for growth. Existing areas are becoming more crowded as devices become ...

42. AI is the Leading Geopolitical Issue

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aifd6/ Artificial Intelligence has risen from a plain technical challenge to become the leading geopolitica...

41. Private Clouds are Coming Back

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The public cloud is real; are private clouds real? Will we see more private clouds in 2025? Private cloud technology is far from the early days when o...

40. IoT is Going to Make Things More Difficult

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise IT has long been divided into silos. This is because of scarce resources and specialized knowledge required to perform some IT operations t...

39. Wi-Fi Marketing Numbers are Lies

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/mfd12/ All marketing is aspirational. Quoted throughput and user counts are hopeful at best. All IT profess...

38. Technology Silos Are a Thing of the Past

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise IT has long been divided into silos. This is because of scarce resources and specialized knowledge required to perform some IT operations t...

37. Company Acquisitions are a Necessary Evil in Enterprise Tech

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd21/ The IT industry’s reliance on acquisitions is a necessary driver of innovation, though they often...

36. There’s a Gulf Between Storage and AI

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aidifd1/ There is a significant gap between storage companies and their ability to effectively support AI i...

35. Snowflake Networks are Built to Break

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd36/ Network engineers are notorious for doing whatever it takes to keep their customers and users happy....

34. WiFi is Always the Best Solution

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/mfd12/ Wi-Fi is the most dominant client connectivity option on the market today. The growth of ubiquitous ...

33. AI Doesn't Make App Dev Any Better

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/adfd2/ Generative AI is transforming many industries where people create content. Software development is ...

32. AI is the Enabler of Network Innovation

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd36/ Artificial Intelligence is creating the kind of paradigm shifts not seen since the cloud revolution....

31. Edge Computing is a Melting Pot of Technology

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/efd3/ Edge computing is one of the areas where we see startup vendors offering innovative solutions, enabli...

30. There Are Too Many Clouds

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd21/ Public Cloud computing is a large part of enterprise IT alongside on-premises computing. Many organi...

29. You Don’t Need Post-Quantum Crypto Yet

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/xfd12/ With the advent of quantum computers, the likelihood that modern encryption is going to be invalidat...

28. Network Automation Is More Than Just Tooling

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfdxnokia24/ The modern enterprise network automation strategy is failing. This is due in part to a collection o...

27. Data Infrastructure Is A Lot More Than Storage

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aidifd1/ The rise of AI and the importance of data to modern businesses has driven us too recognize that da...

26. AI and Cloud Demand a New Approach to Cyber Resilience featuring Commvault

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Commvault Shift: https://www.commvault.com/shift As companies are exposed to more and more attackers, they're realizing that cyber resilience is i...

25. Hardware Still Matters at the Edge

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/efd3/ Hardware innovation at the edge is driven by diverse and challenging environments found outside tradi...

24. AI Solves All Our Problems

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aifd5/ Although AI can be quite useful, it seems that the promise of generative AI has lead to irrational e...

23. Ethernet is Not Ready to Replace InfiniBand Yet

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI networking is making huge strides toward standardization but Ethernet isn’t ready to displace the leading incumbent InfiniBand yet. In this episo...

22. AI is Not a Fad

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI Field Day 5 Event Page: ⁠https://techfieldday.com/event/aifd5/⁠ The current hype about building massive generative AI models with massive hardw...

21. AI as We Know It is Just a Fad

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI Field Day 5: https://techfieldday.com/event/aifd5/ Although AI is certain to transform society, not to mention computing, what we know if it is un...

20. AI Has A Place In Networking Operations

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI tools and features are becoming an indispensable part of the way operations teams do their jobs. Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Keith Pa...

19. Network-as-a-Service is More of a Financial Model

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd35/ Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a very popular topic in the modern enterprise. It promises a way to c...

18. The Mainframe is Still Going Strong

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tech Field Day Extra at SHARE Kansas City 2024 Event Page Despite the hype about modern applications, the mainframe remains central to enterprise IT a...

17. Network Engineering is a Dying Career Field

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/nfd35/ Network Engineering isn’t the hottest profession on the block and people have expressed concerns t...

16. Open Source Helps Small Businesses Modernize Applications

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/adfd1/ Open-source platforms and managed services are a huge help when it comes to modernizing applications...

15. On-Premises Networks Need to Work Like Cloud Networks

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On-premises networks are still very common for specialize applications and need to adopt cloud network operational models. In this episode, Tom Hollin...

14. Everything is the Cloud and The Cloud is Everything

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The cloud operating model is everywhere these days, and just about everything is now called cloud. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorde...

13. GenAI is Revolutionizing the Enterprise

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI will revolutionize enterprise IT, but not in the way people expect. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast includes Stephen Foskett ...

12. It's Time for Private 5G in the Enterprise

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/atm24/ Wi-Fi has changed the way we work in the office but it’s not the only wireless technology. Challen...

11. Cloud Native is Just a Marketing Term

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd20/ Software developers used to use the term cloud native to describe applications  that are designed f...

10. AI is the New Blockchain

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

AI is at the top of the hype cycle and it feels unstoppable. Once upon a time blockchain was in the same place. In this episode, Tom Hollingsworth is ...

9. Application Modernization Requires Good Security Practices

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As application development and modernization moves forward, security has never been more important. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast introdu...

8. Techstrong Editorial Platform Engineering Is the Revenge of IT Operations

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Platform Engineering is the Revenge of IT OperationsDescription: The rise of platform engineering demonstrates how difficult it has been to balance De...

7. Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Enough For Future Wireless Needs

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New technology standards can’t anticipate how users will consume content and applications and revisions to the standards will be adopted to meet the...

6. Data Quality is More Important Than Ever in an AI World with Qlik

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our AI-dominated world, data quality is the key to building useful tools. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Drew Clarke from Qlik...

5. Containerization is Required to Modernize Applications at the Edge

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modern applications are widely deployed in the cloud, but they're coming at the edge as well. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features ...

4. Security Audits Cause More Harm Than Good

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Security audits are painful and often required for compliance but they aren’t adversarial unless you have a bad auditor or bad policy compliance. In...

3. AI is Smarter Than Your Average Network Engineer

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Recent advances in AI for IT have shown the huge potential for changing the way that we do work. However, AI can’t replace everyone in the workforce...