It’s 2012, Time to Review My Predictions for 2011

Last year I made my first attempt at predicting what I thought would transpire with storage technologies and their use, integration, and trends related to server virtualization and cloud computing in 2011. I found...

FlexPod Success Story: The Walz Group

Hopefully to some readers the Walz Group may ring a bell. In July of 2011 I attended Cisco Live where I had the privilege to spend time with Bart Falzarano, the Chief Information Security...

Vote for the Top VMware & Virtualization blogs

Eric Siebert and the team at vSphere-land are seeking your vote in their annual Survey of the Top VMware & Virtualization focused Blogs. If you’re a technically minded individual like me, then I’m sure...

NetApp set to rock VMware Partner Exchange 2012 (PEX)

  In a little over two weeks many will converge on Las Vegas to attend Partner Exchange (or as us geeks prefer to say 'PEX'), VMware’s annual conference dedicated to educating and enabling the partner...

NetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5

We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I'm very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is highlighted...

FlexPod Tech Specs a FlexPod App for the iPhone & iPad

  Ever wish you had all of the specs for the FlexPod platform at your fingertips? Now you can with FlexPod tech Specs, available in the iTunes Store for both iPhone and iPad. FlexPod tech Specs was...

VMware Global Alliances Blog Post on Virtualizing SAP

I've authored a blog post where I attempt to answer an increasingly question of late which is, "How do I successfully virtualize SAP?” No one is in a better position to successfully virtualize SAP than...

The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand

As expected last night's 'Storage Smackdown' webinar with Chad Sakac was fantastic. Topics of conversation spanned the spectrum to include thoughts on storage startups, points of integration, strengths of EMC & NetApp platfroms, and rumors...