I’ve been on a bit of a analyst report trend as of late. Hopefully you were able to download the report ESG Confirms: Virtualize the Array in order to Best Support the Cloud, the IDC Report: Accelerating Converged Infrastructure with FlexPod, and were able to review the results of the Wikibon research entitled, EMC and NetApp lead in VMware Storage Integration … [Read more...] about Forrester Research Report : Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
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What My Cousin Vinny has in Common with VMware Storage Integrations
I recently watched the movie, My Cousin Vinny, a rather light-hearted and funny story that stars Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in a comedic tale about the challenges facing an inexperienced, loud-mouthed lawyer from New York who defends two college students accused of murder in rural Alabama. There’s a scene in the movie that reminded me of the recent Wikibon report on … [Read more...] about What My Cousin Vinny has in Common with VMware Storage Integrations
Leading Change in the Storage Industry
One of the things I love about my current role at NetApp (beyond the great culture, people, and technologies) is the amount of time I spend meeting with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and the online community to discuss the topic of virtualization and how it has changed everything from IT architectures to corporate business models.Over the past four to five years we … [Read more...] about Leading Change in the Storage Industry
FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
I'd like to ask you, do you think the following statements are generally considered to be true? Virtualization is software, and hardware is simply hardware RAID10 out performs all other RAID types that provide data protection (redundancy) Fibre Channel provides greater I/O performance than NFS for virtualized workloads Deduplicated data sets perform slower than … [Read more...] about FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees – Part II
I hope many of you read my recent post: Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees wherein I raised questions around the storage savings guarantee from EMC. The basic question is how can they deliver greater storage savings with fewer technical capabilities and use cases than what is available from NetApp. I believe this is a fair question and was hoping for some information sharing.Now … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees – Part II