Join Chad Sakac and I for a ‘Storage Smackdown’ Live Webinar
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 […]
Happy Birthday FlexPod, You’re Off to a Great Start!
It’s been one year since Cisco & NetApp launched FlexPod, a modular cloud platform designed to accelerate our customers’ evolution from traditional IT infrastructure silos to a shared, virtualized infrastructure. While ‘virtualized infrastructure stacks’ is the IT industry’s product offering du jour, there are three key areas where FlexPod truly differentiates itself from the […]
The Cube with Dave Vellante at Oracle Open World
At Oracle Open World I had an opportunity to enter ‘The Cube’ and spend some time with Dave Vellante of Wikibon. Our conversation ended up on numerous topics that I hadn’t planned for (I thought we might talk a bit of database tech like NoSQL). None the less, the time with Dave was great and […]
Microsoft Announces SMB 2.2 and NAS Support for Hyper-V 3.0 in Windows 8
Big news this morning from the Storage Developer’s Conference (SDC) at the SNIA Cloud Plugfest in Santa Clara, California. Microsoft announced the availability of the SMB 2.2 protocol (formerly known as CIFS). Details include a number of new functional specifications along with support for running Hyper-V 3.0 and applications over the updated NAS protocol with the […]
NetApp Joins the Open Virtualization Alliance
Today NetApp joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). Global membership in the OVA exceeds 200 members and is experiencing rapid growth in participation from companies focused on cloud computing and emerging markets around the globe. It’s my privilege to represent […]