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Have Your Questions Asked at the VMworld Storage SuperHeavy Weight Challenge
We are just weeks away from VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, and we need your help with the Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge (breakout session TA8623). The hosts of this session Tom Howarth & Cody...
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Grab a Discounted VMworld Full Conference Pass from NetApp
NetApp is providing a discount for the purchase of a full conference pass for individuals attending either VMworld in San Francisco or VMworld in Copenhagen. The NetApp discount reduces the price from $1745 to...
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Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
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...
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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...
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Responding to refutes from EMC regarding VMware integration
In recent weeks many have noticed a change in a number of posts by some at EMC when it comes to comparing the level of storage integration available within VMware vCenter server with arrays...
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VCE-101: Oracle On VMware Without Limits
After a brief hiatus I am very eager to return to the ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ series, and today’s post is an impromptu addition to our syllabus. Recently fellow VMware vExpert Steve Kaplan of INX...
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Demos from the HP TechDay 2009 Follow-Up are Live!
My apologies to all for the delay, our original intentions to get the audio and video from the October 6th event were met with multiple challenges ranging from having a high quality video recording...
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Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
Last night I got caught in what I would classify as a tweet-fight with several of my chums over at EMC on the role storage arrays play within a virtual datacenter. The conversation...