I am pleased to announce the availability of our new book, 'vSphere Design Considerations.' It's a crowd-sourced, pocket guide of tweet-length design considerations for VMware vSphere. This book is unique in terms of its format and that it provides infrastructure design considerations from the global aspect of the VMware community! Frank Denneman designed he concept of the book … [Read more...] about Announcing our New Crowd-Sourced vSphere Design Pocket Guide
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Software-Defined Storage in the Spotlight at VMworld 2013
With VMworld 2013 just over a week away, the NetApp team is putting the finishing touches on what we expect will be another fantastic IT industry conference. While there will be a slew of new and innovative technologies to discuss, I anticipate the bulk of the conversations will fall into three primary categories: Enabling hybrid cloud architectures Advancing end-user … [Read more...] about Software-Defined Storage in the Spotlight at VMworld 2013
VMware vCloud Suite on FlexPod: Delivering Datacenter Agility
What if you could accelerate business response, focus on IT innovation versus maintaining daily operations, or quickly support business challenges and opportunities with a single datacenter architecture? Learn how you can with VMware vCloud Suite on FlexPod. … [Read more...] about VMware vCloud Suite on FlexPod: Delivering Datacenter Agility
Tech Preview: Shift Cloud Platforms without Migrating Data
Here’s a brief preview of something we’ve been building that internally we are tentatively calling Project NetApp Shift. Shift allows customers to change the cloud platform their VMs run on without migrating any data. Shift provides unprecedented agility and the ability to create heterogeneous cloud solutions that previously were too costly to implement due to the resource … [Read more...] about Tech Preview: Shift Cloud Platforms without Migrating Data
Kudos to the 2013 VMware vExperts
Since 2009 VMware has recognized individuals for their virtualization and cloud computing advocacy with the annual vExpert award. I'd like to congratulate those who have been awarded this status for 2013. Your efforts help make cloud computing a reality for many. This year set a new high water mark for the virtualization teams at NetApp as we have 8 vExperts! These guys … [Read more...] about Kudos to the 2013 VMware vExperts