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The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand

December 8, 2011Disk-Based Arrays, Storage Virtualization, Tech TrendsNo commentsSocMeVaughn Stewart

As expected last night’s ‘Storage Smackdown‘ webinar with Chad Sakac was fantastic. Topics of conversation spanned the spectrum to include thoughts on storage startups, points of integration, strengths of EMC & NetApp platfroms, and rumors around how Chad & I met. There was some serious amounts of information sharing, insight, and of course lots of laughs!…

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Join Chad Sakac and I for a ‘Storage Smackdown’ Live Webinar

December 4, 2011Disk-Based Arrays, Storage VirtualizationNo commentsSocMeVaughn Stewart

OK, I’m not crazy about the term ‘Storage Smackdown’ as it communicates an adversarial position between Chad Sakac of EMC and I. Chad is one of my ‘Best Frenemies’ and we both share a deep passion to help our customers meet their business objective through advancing their cloud computing initiatives. In recent years we have authored…

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Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver

July 18, 2011Cisco, Disk-Based Arrays, Storage VirtualizationNo commentsConferencesVaughn Stewart

As Cisco Live comes to a close I was able to sit down with some good friends in the vSpecialist organization at EMC to share their perspectives on Cisco Live and the adoption of Cloud computing. Joining me this morning is (from left to right): Rick Scherer – VCDX, Author of VMwareTips.com and vSpecialist at…

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Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization

March 17, 2011Cisco, Converged Infrastructures, Desktop Virtualization, Disk-Based Arrays, Performance6 commentsVaughn Stewart

Last week I presented our portfolio of desktop virtualization solutions to a group of Cisco engineers and account managers. These solutions are built on FlexPod and include desktop virtualization technologies from VMware and Citrix, include automated configuration instructions, and each is certified as a Cisco Validated Design (CVD). In short, we are working together to…

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EMC Admits NetApp is the Leader

February 10, 2011Deduplication, Disk-Based Arrays, Storage Virtualization5 commentsVaughn Stewart

Chris Mellor of The Register recently published the article EMC races to catch up with NetApp, in which he covers a recent EMC webcast where EMC’s President and COO, Pat Gelsinger admitted EMC is hoping to catch up to NetApp in delivering storage efficiencies for virtual server and desktop environments. I agree with Chris when…

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Leading Change in the Storage Industry

January 17, 2011Disk-Based Arrays, Storage Virtualization, Traditional Storage2 commentsVaughn Stewart

One of the things I love about my current role at NetApp (beyond the great culture, people, and technologies) is the amount of time I spend meeting with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and the online community to discuss the topic of virtualization and how it has changed everything from IT architectures to corporate business models….

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