Chris Mellor of The Register recently published the article EMC races to catch up with NetApp, in which he covers a recent EMC webcast where EMC’s President and COO, Pat Gelsinger admitted EMC is hoping to catch up to NetApp in delivering storage efficiencies for virtual server and desktop environments.I agree with Chris when he summarizes the current challenges facing EMC … [Read more...] about EMC Admits NetApp is the Leader
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Leading Change in the Storage Industry
One of the things I love about my current role at NetApp (beyond the great culture, people, and technologies) is the amount of time I spend meeting with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and the online community to discuss the topic of virtualization and how it has changed everything from IT architectures to corporate business models.Over the past four to five years we … [Read more...] about Leading Change in the Storage Industry
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
One portion of my role at NetApp is to share with the community the capabilities and value of our storage technologies, especially the ones engineered and optimized for cloud deployments. Doing so inevitably leads to skepticism from our competitors which makes sense as we are competing for the mind and market share of our customers.Every storage platform has a set of … [Read more...] about A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Thoughts on 2011 – Technical Trends for Clouds
Recently, a number of us at NetApp were asked to share our thoughts around our expectations for 2011. The topics shared by thought leaders at NetApp from the likes of Val Bercovici to Jay Kidd ran the gamut from global economic conditions to ITaaS offerings to object-oriented storage architectures. As one might expect, the thoughts I shared were a bit more technical in nature … [Read more...] about Thoughts on 2011 – Technical Trends for Clouds
An Important VMworld Announcement
This just in, I'm very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 - Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco and Copenhagen.Needless to say I'm honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we've already begun creating and compiling content. This session will … [Read more...] about An Important VMworld Announcement