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...

Recently Scott Lowe shared that he could identify the level of my workload based on the duration between my blog posts. I found his comment was quite insightful as things have been rather busy...

We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I'm very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is highlighted...

Big news this morning from the Storage Developer’s Conference (SDC) at the SNIA Cloud Plugfest in Santa Clara, California. Microsoft announced the availability of the SMB 2.2 protocol (formerly known as CIFS). Details include a...

I’ve been on a bit of a analyst report trend as of late. Hopefully you were able to download the report ESG Confirms: Virtualize the Array in order to Best Support the Cloud, the IDC Report:...

NetApp and VMware performance engineering have completed a new storage performance technical report, TR-3916. This new report provides the relative I/O performance available from SAN and NAS storage protocols with vSphere 4.1 and a...

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...

Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here's a quick summary of what's new in version 2.1: vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) Storage I/O...