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Enterprise data storage defined and why 3PAR?
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
PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) using VDI
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
Posted in desktop virtualization, Systems
Tagged HP, NetApp, PC-as-a-Service, PCaaS, VDI, VMware, VMware view, VMworld
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VMworld and long distance Vmotion
In all the blog posts/tweets about VMworld this week I didn’t see much about long distance Vmotion. At Cisco’s booth there was a presentation on how they partnered with VMware and to perform Vmotion over 200 (simulated) miles away. I … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, Storage, Systems
Tagged Cisco, Extended VLAN, Long distance Vmotion, NetEx, Storage replication, Storage Vmotion, Vmotion, VMware, VMworld
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Why virtualize now?
I suppose it’s obvious to most analyst why server virtualization is such a hot topic these days. Most IT shops purchase servers today that are way overpowered and can easily execute multiple applications. Today’s overpowered servers are wasted running single … Continue reading
Posted in Systems
Tagged Hypervisors, Server virtualization, Tier 1 applications, VMware, vSphere
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Quantum OEMs esXpress VM Backup SW
Quantum announced today that they are OEMing esXpress software (from PHD Virtual) to better support VMware VM backups (see press release) . This software schedules VMware snapshots of VMs and can then transfer the VM snapshot (backup) data directly to … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage Backup
Tagged Data security, Deduplication, LTO, PHD Virtual, Quantum, VMware
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EMCWorld News
At EMC World this past week, all the news was about VMware, Cisco and EMC and how they are hooking up to address the needs of the new data center user. VMware introduced vSphere which was their latest release of … Continue reading
Posted in Storage
Tagged Cisco, EMC, solid state drives, SSD, SSD performance, Storage, Symmetrix, V-Max, VMAX, VMware
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