Data Reduction
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...
Tech Trends
Grab a Discounted VMworld Full Conference Pass from NetApp
NetApp is providing a discount for the purchase of a full conference pass for individuals attending either VMworld in San Francisco or VMworld in Copenhagen. The NetApp discount reduces the price from $1745 to...
Attend VMworld 2010 and have a one-on-one meeting with a NetApp vExpert
One of the best parts of attending VMworld is the wealth of information shared in breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and in vendor booths. This year NetApp is making our vExperts and subject matter experts...
Cisco
End-To-End FCoE: ONLY available from Cisco, NetApp, & VMware
Today the Imagine Virtually Anything Alliance (IVA) of Cisco, NetApp, and VMware announced the industry’s first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware cloud deployments and virtual infrastructures.This certification is a...
Cloud Computing
iPad NAS Access for NetApp SMB / CIFS
After sharing that I picked up an Apple iPad a number of readers asked how they could connect to a NetApp array via SMB (or formerly known as CIFS). In June some at NetApp...
Data Reduction
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Way back at VMworld 2008 NetApp announced our 50% storage savings guarantee for virtual data centers. This guarantee basically stated that running VMware on NetApp would reduce one’s storage requirements by half and if...
APIs
vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
What began in late 2005 with Vanderpool continued today with the release of vSphere 4.1…Vanderpool was the code name of Intel’s Virtualization Technology of x86 (or VT-x), which introduced extended page tables and enabled...
Regarding the Posting of Comments
I refrained as long as I could, but unfortunately the spammers have prevailed. This week I have enabled comment moderation as a means to stop the spamming of my blogs comment section. I will...