The Internet is responsible for the demise of many "meatspace" industries, from magazine publishing to CD sales, but there are some things it'll never do: No matter how much time you spend interacting online, meeting in person is...
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VMware Certified Advanced Professional — VCAP
Today VMware finally officially announced their new exam set, VMware Certified Advanced Professional – VCAP. The VCAP Certification will sit in between VCP and VCDX.
Amazon Redefines Durability with Reduced Reliability Storage (RRS)
Before Google could even take to the stage to announce their new "Google Storage for Developers" cloud storage offering in their I/O conference keynote, Amazon hit back with a new low-cost "Reduced Redundancy Storage" option for...
Four Pillars — Service: The Service Catalogue
As discussed previously, the Service Catalogue is a key component of delivering storage as a service. In this post, I’ll explore some thoughts on developing a Service Catalogue and how its abstraction from technology allows the...
Show 4 — The Interview Process
This week Dan, Ethan and Greg cover some news and then put Marko Milivojevic through a "job interview" to deep dive the Interview Process.
Market positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the whole vBlock Idea
Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products in a joint venture named Acadia. Selected engineers and sales grunts, USD$200 million bucks and "no large customer...
VMware Answers XenClient Release With View Client Local Mode
In contrast to their previously expected bare metal client hypervisor, is VMware now focused on enhancing the VMware View Client Local Mode? I’m basing this assumption on the blog post VMware View: Real BYOC and View Client...
Cisco UCS Servers – A Little Bit of Cynical Marketing Magic Can Go a Long Way
You can take the view that Cisco Unified Computing System is a product that is carefully designed so that selling it is as easy as possible. A cynical marketing analysis has produced a product that customers can be convinced to...
Podcast 6: Stack Wars Roundtable 1
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...
Four Pillars — Service
IT has matured and we’ve mostly moved on to a service-orientated method for delivering computing (and in this case storage) resources. To effectively deliver storage resources within an organisation, it is essential to move to...