I’m very proud and honored to be invited to the next Storage Field Day in Boston. It will be the 16th edition of Storage Field Day (#SFD16), and seems to be very interestning both for the presenters and the delegates lists.

I’m very excited for this event, that remains a must for all techie-people: be a delegate is a unique opportunity to meet interesting people, learn more on products and solutions and usually learn directly by the higher (technical) level of each company… All without biased discussion and always with a high technical level … Contents first in very few words.

At this moment the list of presenters is not complete, but the confirmed names are:

• Dell-EMC (after the TFD16 at Dell’s HQ will be interesting see which topics will be covered)
• INFINIDAT (also if I’ve not wrote, yet, anything about them, they have interesting storage solution)
• Nasuni (this will be a new company for me, so I’m very curious)
• SNIA (the Storage Networking Industry Association advances the interests of the storage industry by driving the evolution and adoption of storage technologies and standards)
• StorONE (also if I’ve not wrote, yet, anything about them, they have interesting storage solution)
• Zerto (probably there will be more details about the news announced at the last ZertoCon)

The schedule will be the following:

And we can add also Hitachi Vantara, considering that the day before #SFD16 there will be a full day about them (but with a delegates list a little different).

The delegates list for the #SFD16 will be:

	Andrea Mauro	@Andrea_Mauro
	IT Architect with focus on virtualization, cloud and storage
	Arjan Timmerman	@ArjanTim
	Software is the new Hardware, or wait, Hardware loves the new Software, or whatever…
	Becky Elliott	@BeckyLElliott
	Senior System Administrator. Proven problem solver with a passion for automating and streamlining processes.
	Brandon Graves	@BrandonGraves08
	Brandon Graves is a Storage and Virtualization Engineer with over 10 years in enterprise experience.
	Erik Ableson	@EAbleson
	An IT generalist with over 20 years of experience spanning multiple technology generations at different layers in the IT organisation.
	Howard Marks	@DeepStorageNet
	Storage Analyst Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
	Jon Klaus	@JonKlaus
	Dutch storage, back-up and server virtualization specialist.
	Keiran Shelden	@Keiran_Shelden
	Keiran is a System Engineer who loves to working with the full stack from compute to storage and all things between.
	Luigi Danakos	@NerdBlurt
	Community driven Digital Marketing Expert, fascinated by community initiatives around virtualization, cloud computing, and DevOps.
	Matthew Leib	@MBLeib
	Long time engineer, and presales architect specializing in Storage, VIrtualization and Orchestrations in the cloud.
	Ray Lucchesi	@RayLucchesi
	Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.
	René van den Bedem	@VCDX133
	I have worked in the IT and Telecommunications industries for more than 24 years. The past twelve years have been as an Enterprise Architect/Strategist and C-Level Advisor.

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

As usual you can follow the event using the video streaming services directly from the home page of the Tech Field Day events.

Or also partecipate at the discussion with Twitter and the hashtag #SFD16