A colleague of mine approached me today with a question on our vCloud Director environment. He...
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What is VAAI, and how does it add spice to my life as a VMware...
I spent some days in Cork, Ireland this week presenting to a customer. Besides the fact that I’m...
Shorts: VMware vCloud Director installation tips
So folks, I helped a colleague install the VMware vCloud Director. In case you are not aware of...
Virtualization makes me say “Who cares about your hardware or...
When you come to think about it, people who work in the IT sector are all slightly nuts. We all...
How do you define high availability and disaster recovery?
A while back I was on a call with someone who asked me the difference between high availability...
This vendor is locking me in!
When you think about it, we all are subject to vendor lock-in all of the time. As soon as I decide...
My take on the stack wars
As some of you might have read, the stack wars have started. One of the bigger coalitions announced...
Gestalt IT Tech Field Day — On Cisco and UCS
The Cisco Unified Computing System or “UCS†builds on the notion that we are currently viewing...
Drobo announces their new Drobo FS
In November 2003, Data Robotics Inc. released two new products, the Drobo S and the Drobo Elite...
“Storage tiering is dying.” But purple unicorns exist.
NetApp CEO Tom Georgens is quoted as dismissive of multi-level tiering, saying: “The simple...