Actifio: Live From Tech Field Day San Jose

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The Tech Field Day staff have been working behind the scenes to improve the quality and timeliness of video output from our event. We are pleased to present the first result of this work, in the form of live streaming from Tech Field Day 4 in San Jose this week. Day 2 of Tech Field Day began with … [Read more...]

Live Coverage – GestaltIT Tech Field Day Veeam Presentation

I am in Seattle, WA for the third GestaltIT Tech Field Day (TFD). This time I am part of the presenting team for Veeam Software, and we are first up on the agenda. As with other recent events, I am using Cover It Live (CiL) to provide real time coverage and of our presentation and the reaction of … [Read more...]

Disastrous Thinking

As follow-up to my blog here; I'd like to share yet more thoughts on availability and the potential negative impacts on some of the new technologies out there. How many of you run clusters of servers? HA/CMP? Veritas Cluster? Microsoft Cluster? VMWare Clustering? I suspect lots of you do? How … [Read more...]

Why you need to be serious about Business Continuity

This is no joke.  Right now southern Indiana is under water.  Some organizations I have worked with are fine but Columbus Regional Hospital and many others aren’t.  Their data center was in a basement (which isn’t rare) and took on a surge of water.  Within what may have been a few hours, it … [Read more...]

Planning for Virtual Infrastructure: Avoid the Pitfalls

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Today, many companies are considering a compete migration from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. Based on the promises of cost savings, administrative efficiencies, and improved resource utilization, virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less. However, … [Read more...]

Implementing VMware SRM: Pay Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain

Now that I’ve sat the VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) class, done the labs, and had some design and implementation time with the product I am reminded of a scene from the movie The Wizard of Oz. “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” is a famous line from the movie which comes … [Read more...]