Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where each is best suited to be deployed.I’d like to thank all that chimed in to share their thoughts and knowledge in the comments section of this post. I believe … [Read more...] about Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Today I wrapped up several weeks of travel which included the Charlotte VMUG conference, NetApp's Foresight engineering event, and a number of customer and technical partner meetings. During these travels a small number of individuals would use the term data deduplication as any technology which reduces the amount of storage capacity required to store a data object (file, LUN, … [Read more...] about Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Folders in iPhone IOS 4 – Everything Old is New Again
Yesterday I upgraded my iPhone 3GS to IOS 4 and I have to admit I really appreciate a number of the enhancements. I'd highlight the unified inbox, messages organized by thread, and folders as the top 3 new features. Compared to scrolling multiple desktops, the organization of apps into folders is a vast improvement in usability.The grouping apps into folders reminded me of the … [Read more...] about Folders in iPhone IOS 4 – Everything Old is New Again
Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
As I shared in a previous posts, the 2010 Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference was hosting a vExpert panel. This session was hosted by Rich Brambley of VMetc.com, Veeam & the Virtumania podcast (seriously rich - do you sleep?) The panel consisted of Mike Laverick of RTFM-Ed.co.uk and SearchServerVirtualization.com, Chad Sakac & Scott Lowe of EMC, and yours truly. Honestly, … [Read more...] about Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp
Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I haven't received confirmation from John Troyer, it appears the catalog is a work in progress. I make this suggestion, as a number of our session confirmations have yet to be published … [Read more...] about VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp