We here at NetApp have been burning the proverbial midnight oil getting ready for VMworld, and in doing so I have put off posting a number of blog entries. I trust you will be very impressed with our VMworld line up. If you can’t make the show make sure to hit our Virtualization YouTube Channel, as all demos will be posted there when the show opens. A week and a half ago … [Read more...] about EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware? – The Conclusion
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Mike & Scott – Thanks
I’d like to take a minute to personally thank Mike Laverick and Scott Lowe for participating in our preview of the Rapid Cloning Utility 2.1 and the Virtual Storage Console. These technoilogies and more will be on display in the NetApp booth at VMworld. Neither Mike nor Scott require introductions. Both are respected leaders in the virtualization market and both were kind … [Read more...] about Mike & Scott – Thanks
VMworld 2009 – Storage Integration Sneak Peek
I trust you are as excited as I am with VMworld just around the corner. In case you missed it, we have a lot going on in San Francisco. Brian Gracely has a published number of posts covering the details of our Breakout Sessions and the sessions featuring either NetApp Partners or Customers over at the Virtualization Effect. For more details click here, here, and here. If … [Read more...] about VMworld 2009 – Storage Integration Sneak Peek
EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware?
My apologies for being away from the blog for a bit. I’ve been heads down either meeting with customers or working with my team as we wrap up the final details for our VMworld presentations and demos. Today I’d like to share a true story from these recent customer visits. In a number of these meetings, multiple customers shared a similar story of their EMC sales teams … [Read more...] about EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware?
VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?
Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication is fundamentally changing the data center and it appears that there’s more on the horizon. I’d like to share with you what I call ‘Data … [Read more...] about VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?