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 friendships between those … [Read more...] about It’s Monday and I’m attending EMC World
Disk-Based Arrays
The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand
As expected last night's 'Storage Smackdown' webinar with Chad Sakac was fantastic. Topics of conversation spanned the spectrum to include thoughts on storage startups, points of integration, strengths of EMC & NetApp platfroms, and rumors around how Chad & I met. There was some serious amounts of information sharing, insight, and of course lots of laughs! In fact, the … [Read more...] about The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand
Join Chad Sakac and I for a ‘Storage Smackdown’ Live Webinar
OK, I'm not crazy about the term 'Storage Smackdown' as it communicates an adversarial position between Chad Sakac of EMC and I. Chad is one of my ‘Best Frenemies’ and we both share a deep passion to help our customers meet their business objective through advancing their cloud computing initiatives. In recent years we have authored joint blog posts and participated in a … [Read more...] about Join Chad Sakac and I for a ‘Storage Smackdown’ Live Webinar
Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver
As Cisco Live comes to a close I was able to sit down with some good friends in the vSpecialist organization at EMC to share their perspectives on Cisco Live and the adoption of Cloud computing. Joining me this morning is (from left to right):Rick Scherer - VCDX, Author of VMwareTips.com and vSpecialist at EMC.Tee Glasgow - Former WAN Engineer, UNIX SysAdmin, Solaris bigot, … [Read more...] about Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver
Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization
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