Today I wrapped up several weeks of travel which included the Charlotte VMUG conference, NetApp's Foresight engineering event, and a number of customer and technical partner meetings. During these travels a small number of individuals would use the term data deduplication as any technology which reduces the amount of storage capacity required to store a data object (file, LUN, … [Read more...] about Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Storage Virtualization
Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
As I shared in a previous posts, the 2010 Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference was hosting a vExpert panel. This session was hosted by Rich Brambley of VMetc.com, Veeam & the Virtumania podcast (seriously rich - do you sleep?) The panel consisted of Mike Laverick of RTFM-Ed.co.uk and SearchServerVirtualization.com, Chad Sakac & Scott Lowe of EMC, and yours truly. Honestly, … [Read more...] about Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp
Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I haven't received confirmation from John Troyer, it appears the catalog is a work in progress. I make this suggestion, as a number of our session confirmations have yet to be published … [Read more...] about VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp
Storage Architectures with LDVM: Faster, Less ComPlex
While attending the VMware TechSummit this week, someone asked why I thought storage was relevant in light of server virtualization, the virtual datacenter, cloud deployments, the software mainframe, etc… OK - This individual didn’t actual say software mainframe but I though I'd inject it into their synonym roll call. Mmmm… Synonym Rolls. Sounds yummy! (OK - running on 4 hours … [Read more...] about Storage Architectures with LDVM: Faster, Less ComPlex
Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data
Today my good friend Duncan Epping surprised me by shooting me an IM notifying me that he was posting on the impact of partition misalignment and asked if I’d care to comment. Fortunately for me I had time to do just that and this post is an expanded version of what I shared in the comments section at YellowBricks. I’d suggest that anyone interested begin at YellowBricks before … [Read more...] about Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data