Tag Archives: VMware

Top 10 blog posts for 2011

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Ray

Happy Holidays. I ranked my blog posts using a ratio of hits to post age and have identified with the top 10 most popular posts for 2011 (so far): Vsphere 5 storage enhancements – We discuss some of the more … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage surfaces

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ray

We were talking with Pure Storage last week, another SSD startup which just emerged out of stealth mode today.  Somewhat like SolidFire which we discussed a month or so ago, Pure Storage uses only SSDs to provide primary storage.  In … Continue reading →

Posted in Block Storage, Clustered storage, Data reduction, FC, SSD storage, Storage, Storage performance, Storage reliability, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategy, Systems | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

VMware’s CEO at EMCWorld

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ray

At EMCWorld earlier this week, Paul Maritz CEO of VMware took center stage and talked about what they were doing to help customers in their journey to the cloud. From his perspective, there seems to be 3 phases to the journey … Continue reading →

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VMware disaster recovery

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Ray

I did an article awhile ago for TechTarget on Virtual (machine) Disaster Recovery and discussed what was then the latest version of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v1.0 and some of it’s capabilities. Well its been a couple of years … Continue reading →

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CommVault’s Simpana 9 release

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Ray

CommVault annoucned a new release of their data protection product today – Simpana® 9.  The new software provides significantly enhanced support for VM backup, new source-level deduplication capabilities and other enhanced facilities. Simpana 9 starts by defining 3 tiers of … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2010 review

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Ray

Got back from VMworld last week and had a great time. Met a number of new and old friends and talked a lot about the new VMware technology coming online. Some highlights from the keynote sessions I attended, vCloud Director … Continue reading →

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Enterprise data storage defined and why 3PAR?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Ray

Recent press reports about a bidding war for 3PAR bring into focus the expanding need for enterprise class data storage subsystems.  What exactly is enterprise storage? Defining enterprise storage is frought with problems but I will take a shot.  Enterprise … Continue reading →

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PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) using VDI

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Ray

Last year at VMworld, VMware was saying that 2010 was year for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), last week NetApp said that most large NY banks they talked with were looking at implementing VDI and prior to that, HP StorageWorks announced … Continue reading →

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