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
Storage Virtualization
Live Chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization
Tomorrow the ReadWriteWeb Solution Series returns with a live chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization. The discussion will be led by ReadWriteWeb's David Strom who will be joined by Wen Yu of VMware along with NetApp experts Jean Banko, Julian Cates, and yours truly. This live text chat system is a new way for us to communicate with you and we're hopeful you find … [Read more...] about Live Chat: The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization
Forrester Research Report : Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
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: Accelerating Converged Infrastructure with FlexPod, and were able to review the results of the Wikibon research entitled, EMC and NetApp lead in VMware Storage Integration … [Read more...] about Forrester Research Report : Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
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
VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts
Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I believe part of the reason these two sessions were so highly rated was that they both presented the role and future direction of storage in a shared cloud infrastructure from multiple … [Read more...] about VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts