EMC will today unveil a new product, and will no doubt attract a great deal of press. The modest technical capabilities of VFCache 1.0 limit its use case, but the announcement is big news, since it marks EMCs first foray into the hot server-attached storage market. EMC VFCache is a Simple Read … [Read more...]
EMC VFCache (aka “Project Lightning”) Is One Small Step, But an Important One
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Podcast 10: Xsigo Discussion at VMworld
November 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Xsigo sponsored our "Get Away to VMworld" contest, and a number of us decided to attend the announcement there of their latest Ethernet-based virtual I/O device. After the event, we circled the chairs and spoke with Camden Ford, the same Xsigo engineer that wowed the Tech Field Day 1 and Net Field … [Read more...]
VMworld 2010: A Trip to Remember
October 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Editor's Note: This guest post was written by Greg W. Stuart, winner of the Boche.net/Gestalt IT VMworld trip contest Finally Attending a Computer/Technology Event I have to confess something right off the bat; I’ve never actually been to a computer/technology conference in the 10 years that … [Read more...]
Show 19 – Worlds Collide – VMware and Networking
September 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What You’ll Hear The show was a little late this week, because as our friend @ioshints put it, we had a “cloud ladder failure” on Sunday: Greg’s broadband was out. But when we finally gathered ’round the great big conference room in the sky, we did it up right. Dan was coming in loud … [Read more...]
Announcing the Winners of our Get Away to VMworld Contest!
August 13, 2010 by 3 Comments
When we announced our "Get Away to VMworld" contest, we knew it would be popular. But we had no idea that it would spark interest from so many people! We are overwhelmed by the response, with more than 70 entries, and by the support from our friends at Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam. It has … [Read more...]
“Get Away to VMworld” Contest: Enhanced and Extended!
August 10, 2010 by 6 Comments
Last week we announced the Gestalt IT “Get Away to VMworld” Contest and have been overwhelmed by the response. We've had blog posts, tweets, comments, and (most importantly) three dozen entries in the contest so far. But one thing was getting us down: The entries were excellent but we could … [Read more...]
Announcing the Gestalt IT “Get Away to VMworld” Contest!
August 4, 2010 by 13 Comments
Storage virtualization has become a central component of the modern data center, and the annual VMworld gathering in San Francisco has become the central event for virtualization-related companies. Although focused on VMware, the conference draws many companies. And the labs and sessions are really … [Read more...]
Podcast 7: Stack Wars Roundtable 2
May 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week's Tech Field Day roundtable discussion is an audio chat on the subject of stack wars - the creation of all-in-one "stacks" of IT equipment by the major vendors. These stacks have been quite a hot topic of discussion both inside Gestalt IT and in the community as a whole. The discussion … [Read more...]
The Stack Wars Have Begun!
April 19, 2010 by 9 Comments
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized, companies like Cisco, EMC, HP, and now HDS are stepping up to the plate with integrated "stacks" … [Read more...]
Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – On Cisco and UCS
April 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
There are a couple of words that are high on my list as being the buzzwords for 2010. The previous year brought us things like “green computing”, but the new hip seems to be “federation”, “unification”. And let’s not forget the one that seems to last longer then just one year, it’s … [Read more...]