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 individuals would use the term data deduplication as any technology which reduces the amount of storage capacity required to store a […]
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, […]
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 and technologies between NetApp and EMC. Such criticism is fair; EMC and NetApp are competitors; however, I’m very disappointed in recent responses […]
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 published a rather thought provoking post rallying for the acceleration of the transformation to a 100% virtualized datacenter. Steve waxes poetic […]
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 without audio, to a crystal clear audio recording containing an audio duplex issue, and being unaware of the YouTube 10 minute […]