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 50% Virtualization Guarantee Program. This program is one of the many means by which NetApp is helping customers reduce their storage … [Read more...] about Deduplication Guarantee from NetApp – Fact or Fiction?
Traditional Storage
A New Era for Virtual Desktops
We are entering into an interesting time in the industry witnessed by the release of VMware View. View Manager, View Composer, Thin App, and Offline Desktop are well positioned to accelerate the adoption of virtual desktops in datacenters and to remote access devices. Today I’d like to share some thoughts specific to reducing storage costs with VDI or View. A major … [Read more...] about A New Era for Virtual Desktops
VMware on NetApp Best Practices Update
As one might imagine Several of us within NetApp receive a fair amount of feedback around the content in our VMware on NetApp Best Practices Technical Report, TR-3428. A few of the areas where we receive a large amount of inquiry are related to the frequency of the updates to the document and requests for notification of when updates are posted. I’d like to use this post … [Read more...] about VMware on NetApp Best Practices Update
Need more on VDI, stay tuned…
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the conversation around VDI. Wow, for a blog which was posted at 8:00 PM EDT on a Friday evening, to attract this much attention in 24 hours, I believe that I may have struck a nerve. At present time, it appears that my friends at EMC are a bit perplexed as to the capabilities and integration of NetApp technologies with VMware … [Read more...] about Need more on VDI, stay tuned…
The used car salesman approach
Ever feel like someone is telling you everything you want to hear while their true raison d'être is for their own gain? Maybe I’m off base here, so I‘ll ask you to help me decide I believe we all agree that a few of the core goals with implementing VMware are simplifying operations, and to drive down infrastructure costs. So am I missing something with this post from … [Read more...] about The used car salesman approach