You can help shape the content catalog for VMworld 2014! Voting for VMworld 2014 breakout sessions is open. This is your opportunity to help shape the course catalog. Storage is front and center this year, and there’s a number of panel conversations and best practice sessions designed to share knowledge and experience of emerging storage technologies with VMware infrastructure … [Read more...] about Vote for Next-Gen Storage Sessions at VMworld 2014
Storage Tiering
VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective. I’d like to thank Chad Sakac; over the past 4 or 5 years he and I have jointly presented at VMworld events and the feedback from these sessions has been outstanding. As I shared in … [Read more...] about VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
It’s 2012, Time to Review My Predictions for 2011
Last year I made my first attempt at predicting what I thought would transpire with storage technologies and their use, integration, and trends related to server virtualization and cloud computing in 2011. I found sharing my views quiet enjoyable; however half the fun in making a prediction is following up to review them for accuracy. Below are the seven predictions I made. … [Read more...] about It’s 2012, Time to Review My Predictions for 2011
Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated
I’ve had some great meetings with a number of customers this week and in one of them they were very interested in understanding NetApp’s value proposition with VMware View. They were specifically interested in understanding how NetApp could deliver high levels of storage I/O from a dense, and cost-effective, storage footprint.As a point of reference they drew what they … [Read more...] about Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated