GestaltIT Field Day – Independent Blogger Event November 12 – 13 in San Jose, CA
October 27th, 2009114 views | 
Author: Social networking continues to prove to be a valuable communication and marketing channel for vendors. Large technical conferences have been the shining example so far, but the recent HP Storage Tech Day event in Colorado Springs was a small event with a big reaction. HP sponsored a handful of bloggers who were able to engage IT professionals world-wide with real time commentary. It was a simple but effective format: 2 days of interactive presentations, demonstrations, and hand on labs without non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). The bloggers were free to tweet, podcast and post about the experience.
The event proved to be so successful in it’s reach that other vendors immediately expressed interest in doing the same. GestaltIT founder Stephen Foskett contacted me shortly afterwards with the news that because there was enough sponsor interest he would be organizing a new series of multi-vendor events called GestaltIT Field Days. The first one has already been scheduled and will be held in Silicon Valley on November 12 and 13, 2009.
Stephen describes the event on the GesatltIT Field Day web page:
“This is not a trade show, a junket, or an analyst day. Rather, the participating sponsors will be engaging the attendees, inviting feedback, and fostering open communication. We were inspired by HP’s series of Tech Days and wanted to broaden the concept, bringing in more products and a broader range of technologies. We also liked the idea of creating and managing a similar event as an independent third party.”
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Other event sponsors not presenting are:
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The tentative November line up of bloggers is currently:
| Name | Blog / Web Site | Twittername |
| Rich Brambley | VM /ETC Gestalt IT |
RBrambley |
| Carlo Costanzo | VMware Info | CCostan |
| Chris Evans | The Storage Architect Gestalt IT |
ChrisMEvans |
| Greg Ferro | EtherealMind Gestalt IT |
EtherealMind |
| Robin Harris | StorageMojo | StorageMojo |
| Rod Haywood | Musings of Rodos | Rodos |
| John Hickson | Studio Sysadmins | StudioSystems |
| Greg Knieriemen | Storage Monkeys | Knieriemen |
| John Obeto | Absolutely Windows | JohnObeto |
| Devang Panchigar | StorageNerve Gestalt IT |
StorageNerve |
| Nigel Poulton | Ruptured Monkey | NigelPoulton |
| Bas Raayman | Renegade’s Technical Diatribe | BasRaayman |
| Ed Saipetch | Breathing Data Gestalt IT |
EdSai |
| Rick Vanover | Virtualization Review Tech Republic |
RickVanover |
| …and one more we can’t mention quite yet | ???? | ???? |
I’m looking forward to this first Field Day, and GestaltIT has plans for more just like it 2010! Look for posts and my usual Tweetgrid(s) here on VM /ETC in a few weeks.
Call to Virtualization vendors
Personally I’d like to see more cloud computing and virtualization infrastructure content in future Field Days. Technology Vendors who wish to showcase their solutions in this format please checkout the Field Day Sponsor Page on GestaltIt or contact me at the email address on my About page.
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