A few months back we launched the VMware on NetApp Trial, a 100% software-based evaluation built upon Data ONTAP Edge, the NetApp Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA), which allows participants to gain hands-on experience with...

This week I shared my thoughts with SiliconANGLE on the emerging Software-Defined Storage trend. Below is an excerpt: “Hardware Independence is in our DNA” : NetApp Defines its Software-Led Storage Play There’s a Renaissance going on...

Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) is emerging as a hot topic in my customer conversations as a means to transform data centers into IT service centers focused on increasing the agility and speed at which...

At VMworld 2012 NetApp released Data ONTAP Edge, their first software-base Virtual Storage Array (VSA). Edge provided a platform for innovation, enabling customers a new palette upon which to develop and deliver IT services....

AT Cisco LIve in London I sat down for a 'ChappyChat' with Craig Chapman of VCE. We had an off-the-cuff chat about the state of datacenter transformations including the massive rate of data growth and...

Today Cisco and NetApp announced an expanded partnership with the FlexPod platform. These investments build upon our shared goal to deliver a converged infrastructure that unifies enterprise clouds with branch offices and cloud service...

This morning I have the privilege of presenting the event keynote for the 2012 Upstate New York VMUG Conference. I will share a number of data points on the impact rampant data growth is...

Live from VMworld Europe 2012, the lights we hot, the unicorn was not! My good friend Chad Sakac of EMC joined me on Cisco’s Engineers Unplugged to discuss storage stretch clustering concepts and options. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzz3e60St6k]   It...