I trust you are as excited as I am with VMworld just around the corner. In case you missed it, we have a lot going on in San Francisco. Brian Gracely has a published number of posts covering the details of our Breakout Sessions and the sessions featuring either NetApp Partners or Customers over at the Virtualization Effect. For more details click here, here, and here. If … [Read more...] about VMworld 2009 – Storage Integration Sneak Peek
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EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware?
My apologies for being away from the blog for a bit. I’ve been heads down either meeting with customers or working with my team as we wrap up the final details for our VMworld presentations and demos. Today I’d like to share a true story from these recent customer visits. In a number of these meetings, multiple customers shared a similar story of their EMC sales teams … [Read more...] about EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware?
A Customer’s Findings: VMware on NetApp vs EMC
It must be ‘Brief Post Friday’ as I keep getting pinged with great info to share all the while I have several other deadlines to meet (I guess its another evening of working until midnight). I have the privilege of sharing with you the following report compiled by a rather large customer which compares the results of virtualization consulting engagements completed by EMC and … [Read more...] about A Customer’s Findings: VMware on NetApp vs EMC
The Epiphany – I Had One, You Want One?
Recently I was visiting customers and prospects in the North East and during one of our meetings the customer stated, “…what NetApp is doing, in terms of storage virtualization, make us feel like NetApp is much more aligned with the goals of VMware than their parent company…” This praise was shared while the customer told us how EMC is working to earn back their VMware … [Read more...] about The Epiphany – I Had One, You Want One?
I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards
I was surprised to read in the relatively recent EMC report: VMware ESX Server Optimization with EMC® Celerra® Performance Study that when it comes to aligning the partitions inside of virtual machines EMC has diametrically opposed recommendations based on the storage protocol and storage array which one deploys with VMware. I have to say that such recommendations raise a red … [Read more...] about I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards