It’s been two weeks since VMworld 2009 concluded. I believe the show was an overwhelming success for VMware and their ecosystem partners. I believe this year’s event demonstrated that VMware was executing...

We here at NetApp have been burning the proverbial midnight oil getting ready for VMworld, and in doing so I have put off posting a number of blog entries. I trust you will be very...

I trust you are as excited as I am with VMworld just around the corner. In case you missed it, we have a lot going on in San Francisco. Brian Gracely has a published...

Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication...

Updated July 12th - Syllabus revised Welcome all to Storage 101, I’ll be brief below is our syllabus and the topics we will cover leading up to VMworld. The format of these posts will...

Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com. I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced...

I stumbled across these blog posts this morning. NetApp’s ‘Shining’ Moment – its Capacity Guarantee Program & NetApp’s ‘Shining’ Moment – its Capacity Guarantee Program follow up  These blogs attempt to discuss the details of the NetApp...