I Didn’t Forget… vOdgeball 2012
I’m willing to bet many thought I had forgotten to post about vOdgeball, the annual dodgeball tournament that for many marks the start of VMworld. Who would have ever imagined Fred Nix’s desire to assemble ‘Mathletes’ for the purposes of displaying athletic prowess would ever have caught on? There’s a reason I’m in IT and […]
Data ONTAP Edge Sparks Innovation
Since releasing the NetApp Virtual Storage Appliance, Data ONTAP Edge, we’re experiencing tremendous demand for our software-based storage platform. It seems an organic wave of solutions innovation has permeated our customer base and partner ecosystem and frankly speaking, it has been nothing short of amazing. Today I have the privilege of sharing one such area of […]
Data ONTAP Edge Question: Run the VSA on Laptops?
It seems many are having tremendous success with their evaluation of the NetApp Virtual Storage Appliance, Data ONTAP Edge. Two quick examples include Josh Odgers who authored a fantastic post detailing the provisioning and cloning capabilities of the NetApp VSC plug-in for vCenter and Mike Ellis who quickly spun up the VSA and began tweeting […]
NetApp Wins the First Ever VMworld Challenge
During the day 2 general session at VMworld, VMware CTO Steve Herrod gave each of the VMworld Global Diamond Sponsor 4 minutes to do deliver a demo of their latest vSphere integrations and capabilities. These demos were presented to a massive room, packed with 10,000 VMworld attendees. Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp all presented… […]
VMworld 2012: BCO2982 Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM
This session was second of the two ‘community’ sessions I presented with Chad. The topic of this session is “Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM – when, why, where”. In many regards the technologies that comprise these offerings can be viewed as the “new protocol battle”. There are a number of technical considerations one needs to […]