2021 – The year of digital acceleration

Welcome to 2021! I think we are all aware of what a dumpster fire last year was, but what you may have missed is what a significant impact 2020 had on technology. For all the problems 2020 brought us, it was one of the most influential years for technology. It brought us everything from a new Tesla and iPhone to the technology allowing billions of [...]

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Unisphere Central for the VNX Family

EMC's Unisphere Central is a free virtual appliance that enables you to remotely monitor the status, activity, and resources of most EMC storage systems available on your [...]

VNXe 3.1.1 software update: KittyHawk+

The VNXe3200 is finally getting some much needed enhancements. On January 27th, EMC will put out the latest 3.1.1 code update for the VNXe. Here are some of the new [...]

IBM Storwize V7000 vs EMC VNX5400

I have seen a lot of debate lately over which big blue storage vender puts out a better box, IBM or EMC. I am definitely a huge EMC fan and felt compelled to weigh in on my [...]

VMware ESXi 5.5 for a Home lab

Recently I have been working on beefing up my home lab so I can have a sandbox to play with a lot of the new emerging technology out there like Cloudera, OpenStack, EMC [...]

XtremIO 3.0 Product Release

It is official, XtremIO 3.0 has been released! For those of you that do not know what XtremIO is, it is an all-flash storage array. It is made up of hardware and software [...]

What I know about VMware vSphere 6

Though VMware did not formally announce vSphere 6 they did announce the beta release. Here are some of the features teased in this upcoming release. Fault Tolerance in [...]