Performance

Have a few days to spare? We need to upgrade the XtremIO

Recently the news wire has been abuzz with the revelation that EMC XtremIO customers wanting to upgrade the system software to the coming XIOS version 3.0 will be disruptive. To be clear, this isn’t the typical...

Vote for Next-Gen Storage Sessions at VMworld 2014

You can help shape the content catalog for VMworld 2014! Voting for VMworld 2014 breakout sessions is open. This is your opportunity to help shape the course catalog. Storage is front and center this...

Pure Storage 101: Ensuring 100% Performance

Today’s IT departments are evolving into internal service providers focused on delivering agile and always available services to end users, partners, and customers. One of the many unique qualities of the Pure Storage FlashArray...

Pure Storage 101: Adaptive Data Reduction

Flash is the revolutionizing force in the storage market, providing next-generation storage platforms a level of performance previously unobtainable and more ideal to support the data access requirements of today and for the foreseeable...

VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices

This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective....

Vendorwag with Mike Laverick: New Features in the Virtual Storage Console 4.0

Mike Laverick visits to discuss the new features in the NetApp Virtual Storage Console plug-in for VMware vCenter Server. We highlight the new 'Migrate and Optimize' capability that can non-disuptively correct file system misalignment...

It’s 2012, Time to Review My Predictions for 2011

Last year I made my first attempt at predicting what I thought would transpire with storage technologies and their use, integration, and trends related to server virtualization and cloud computing in 2011. I found...

Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated

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...

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