Cisco Live 2012 – Built on FlexPod
This post originally appears in Cisco’s Data Center & Cloud Blog I am here in the beautiful San Diego to support the NetApp team and activities at Cisco Live 2012. This year’s event features the largest number of joint Cisco and NetApp solutions in our history! I expect Cisco Live attendees will be […]
Virtualization Changes Everything Free Copies and Book Signings at Cisco Live
A year ago Mike Slisinger and I wanted to expand upon the impact and influence server virtualization and cloud computing were having on storage and it’s support of the evolution from silo models to dynamic, flexible hosting environments. For these reasons we authored, ‘Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing’ Storage […]
It’s Monday and I’m attending EMC World
This week EMC hosts their annual educational forum and technical conference, EMC World in Las Vegas. I’m not breaking news when I state the storage industry is a competitive landscape. What some may not realize is within the storage industry consists a large technical community of professionals and from this community friendships abound. These include […]
Discussing Desktops and Mobility with Cisco & WWT at Citrix Synergy
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Product Manager at Cisco, asked Joe Onisick, Technical Architect at World Wide Technology, and I to discuss Cisco VXI technology at Citrix Synergy 2012. We share thoughts from a partner and vendor perspective on delivering desktop virtualization and mobility solutions.
Announcing FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
Today, we are very pleased to announce the latest private cloud offering from NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft: FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud. This reference implementation is our second major generation of private cloud solution built on Windows Server 2008 R2. The major update for this version is that we are now fully integrated with System […]