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Thoughts from day 1 of the VMware Partner Exchange
Yesterday the VMware Partner Exchange 2010 kicked off. For those of you unfamiliar with VMware Partner Exchange, or PEX, it is the annual virtualization event designed especially for VMware Partners...
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Cisco NetApp VMware Secure Multi-Tenancy Updates
A few quick hits this morning… While on vacation last week I missed this post on ‘Virtual Stovepipes‘ from that I would like to share with you. I beleive it’s the first blog post by Dale Wickizer, CTO...
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Storage Architectures with LDVM: Faster, Less ComPlex
While attending the VMware TechSummit this week, someone asked why I thought storage was relevant in light of server virtualization, the virtual datacenter, cloud deployments, the software mainframe,...
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End-To-End FCoE: ONLY available from Cisco, NetApp, & VMware
Today the Imagine Virtually Anything Alliance (IVA) of Cisco, NetApp, and VMware announced the industry’s first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware cloud...
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Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization
Last week I presented our portfolio of desktop virtualization solutions to a group of Cisco engineers and account managers. These solutions are built on FlexPod and include desktop virtualization...
View ArticleIntroducing FlexPod for VMware: Flexible IT
Today, organizations understand the financial and operational benefits of moving to a shared cloud-based infrastructure. Both enterprises and service providers require validated, cost-effective,...
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Cisco Live chat with Andy Sholomon of Cisco
Next week I’ll be supporting the NetApp team at Cisco Live. Worldwide conferences can be a somewhat of a challenge for me, as I’d like to share the buzz and news of the show in blog posts yet my...
View ArticleCisco Live Daily Blogger Techminute on Citrix Desktop Virtualization
I sit down with Natalie Lambert, Sr. Director of Product Marketing at Citrix and Doug Dooley of Cisco to discuss desktop virtualization with XenDesktop on FlexPod via Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs)....
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Cisco Live chat with Abhinav Joshi of Cisco & Wade Holmes of VMware
My week here in Vegas started with breakfast with Cisco’s Abhinav Joshi, VMware’s Wade Holmes, and NetApp’s Friea Berg. You probably already know this bunch from Twitter or their blogs, but for those...
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Cisco Live chat with J Metz of Cisco on FCoE & Putting the Cart Behind the Horse
My Cisco Live misadventures continued with Cisco FCoE product manager J Metz. This was my first time meeting J, a former university professor who these days promotes, evangelizes, and drives the...
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Cisco Live Q&A – Natalie Lambert of Citrix on Desktop Virtualization Trends,...
Last September Cisco and Citrix announced the first desktop virtualization Cisco Validated Design (CVD) to help customers implement standard, repeatable architectures for XenDesktop with NetApp...
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Cisco Live : Blogger Techminute with NetApp on Flexpod Solutions
Check out the great conversation I had with Abhinav Joshi of Cisco and Joe Onisick of WWT around our partnership, FlexPod, SMT, Automation, CVDs, and enabling partners. Thanks to Didier Rombaut of...
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Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer &...
As Cisco Live comes to a close I was able to sit down with some good friends in the vSpecialist organization at EMC to share their perspectives on Cisco Live and the adoption of Cloud computing....
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Cisco Live Q&A – Cisco’s David Antkowiak on Putting the Flex in FlexPod
In November of 2010, Cisco and NetApp along with VMware launched the FlexPod, our pre-validated, cloud platform. Since it’s release 8 months ago, the FlexPod program has been an overwhelming success....
View ArticleDiscussing Desktops and Mobility with Cisco & WWT at Citrix Synergy
Gaurav Bhardwaj, Product Manager at Cisco, asked Joe Onisick, Technical Architect at World Wide Technology, and I to discuss Cisco VXI technology at Citrix Synergy 2012. We share thoughts from a...
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Virtualization Changes Everything Free Copies and Book Signings at Cisco Live
A year ago Mike Slisinger and I wanted to expand upon the impact and influence server virtualization and cloud computing were having on storage and it’s support of the evolution from silo models to...
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Discussing FlexPod and Infrastructure Solutions on the Cisco Blogger Tech Minute
On Monday I had the opportunity to sit down with Omar Sultan of Cisco and Fred Nix of EMC on the Cisco Blogger Tech Minute to discuss data center ecosystems and the role storage platforms play the...
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NetApp Wins the First Ever VMworld Challenge
During the day 2 general session at VMworld, VMware CTO Steve Herrod gave each of the VMworld Global Diamond Sponsor 4 minutes to do deliver a demo of their latest vSphere integrations and...
View ArticleChappyChat at Cisco Live – Massive Data Growth, Software-Defined...
AT Cisco LIve in London I sat down for a ‘ChappyChat‘ with Craig Chapman of VCE. We had an off-the-cuff chat about the state of datacenter transformations including the massive rate of data growth and...
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FlashStack CI: Why all-flash advances the converged infrastructure market
Last week Pure Storage launched FlashStack CI – our Converged Infrastructure with Cisco and VMware. Based on the volume of coverage from the press and analysts it appears we hit the mark. With a...
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