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Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart

Data Perspectives from Clouds to Analytics

Desktop Virtualization

Simple Versus Complicated – Verified

June 10, 2011 by Vaughn Stewart 2 Comments

One day after sharing with you my customer engagement where we discussed provisioning 'Storage for Desktops - Simple VersusComplicated' I was informed of a post from another storage vendor that verified my premise.While my post discussed 500 desktops with VMware View and the latter covered 1,000 with Citrix XenDesktop, the information I shared relating to the storage … [Read more...] about Simple Versus Complicated – Verified

Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated

June 8, 2011 by Vaughn Stewart 2 Comments

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

Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization

March 17, 2011 by Vaughn Stewart 6 Comments

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 deliver … [Read more...] about Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization

VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge

March 23, 2010 by Vaughn Stewart Leave a Comment

As some of you may know if I’m not talking to someone (partner, customer, etc...) I’m probably listening to my iPhone. Besides my love for music (I’m a bass player) I listen to audiobooks, courses from the teaching company, and a half-dozen or so podcasts. Today during my flight from NC to CA (I believe we were somewhere over Kentucky) the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast … [Read more...] about VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge

Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage

August 28, 2009 by Vaughn Stewart 6 Comments

Recently both NetApp and EMC published VDI whitepapers with our mutual partners VMware and Cisco. Both papers are very solid and should result in robust infrastructures; however, the solutions are far from equal and I’d like to take 5 minutes of your time to share with you some interesting points of comparison. Sure the EMC paper focuses on UCS platform while the NetApp … [Read more...] about Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage

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Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart

VP of Global Technology Alliances at Pure Storage.

Product strategy & technical story teller.

Imported from Detroit, refined in Silicon Valley.

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