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Chad Sakac and Chuck Hollis have done a fantastic job of introducing the world to the VMAX 40K in all it’s peerless splendor, but of course there’s one more question being asked: when will we get to see this behemoth, along with the 5876 Enginuity code at the storage [...]
Continue Reading →One of the core value propositions of the Vblock is the reduction of risk and increase in speed-to-market for our customers as they build out their own private cloud or consuming it from one of our service provider partners. This reduction of risk comes as part of a process that is incorrectly labeled as a [...]
Continue Reading →I had almost the exact same conversation with three customers over the last few weeks, and one of them ended with the EMC vSpecialist who had invited me to the call telling the customer “Keep an eye on his blog, I’m sure he’ll have more up there soon!” With pressure like that, who needs deadlines? [...]
Continue Reading →This is a quick addendum to the recent posts on my home lab, showing what can happen when you don't think all the way through a migration project!
As part of building out the new lab, I needed to move all of my internal management VMs over. They had been residing on an HP DL360 [...]
Continue Reading →With my employer having EMC as a parent company, it’s not surprising that data, and all of the ways it impacts the strategy, operations and execution of businesses of every size, is a topic that comes up often. The interesting part is seeing for myself how much data matters on a day-to-day basis in lots [...]
Continue Reading →I apologize that this post is so long in coming. Thanks to everyone who asked if I had more content coming, I’ll try and get everything dumped over the next couple days. I appreciate everyone’s patience!
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Day two of EMC World 2011 was definitely my favorite of the week. The trickle of [...]
Continue Reading →I’m in the air and on the way to Las Vegas to participate in the largest EMC World conference ever, and can’t wait to get there. EMC has been gracious enough to plug me into their Social Media Machine™ for the week, so the plan is to live-blog the larger events as they happen, and [...]
Continue Reading →One of the challenges with enterprise storage, is well, it usually takes an enterprise full of people, or with some vendors a healthy PS budget, to install, upgrade and maintain them. With some (most?) enterprises trending towards younger, cheaper staff who are asked to be jacks of many trades and masters of none, hardware vendors have [...]
Continue Reading →Ran into this a little while back, and wanted to make sure to share with the group.
We do a great job of keeping our vmkernel logs clean, so when we started seeing a bunch of spam in there we dug in to figure it [...]
Continue Reading →Storage tiering is one of those concepts that has been around for a while, the question has always been "what's the trade-off?" Compellent was the first storage vendor I worked with who offered the feature, and others have followed with offerings of their own. EMC, whose arrays support our Enterprise Cloud platform, released their FAST [...]
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