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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VMworld 2014 Update (8/25/14)

Here is brief list of the major announcements at VMWorld 2014 today. You can read a lot more about these updates on Chad's blog or VMware's website. VMware EVO, a solution [...]

VMware EVO: RAIL (aka Project Mystic)

I am not sure how many of you have read up on the EVO: RAIL announcement from VMworld (Chad also talked a little about this in the SE All-hands meeting). If you have, you know [...]

How well do virtual environments really dedupe?

With the advent of Flash Storage, the new buzz term is "deduplication". This is the best way to fit a large amount of VM data in a very small capacity flash array. EMC's new [...]

SAN vs VSAN

First off, let me just say i am a HUGE VMware fan. I am even a VCP myself. I think they are a great company with incredible product offerings. A few months ago VMware [...]

Freedom of movement in the cloud…

Cloud is a hot buzz word now-a-days. A lot of people are moving to the cloud for many reasons. From rapid elasticity of their environment, broad network access of their [...]

Better then Beethoven’s 9th SANsymphony

I have never heard of SANsymphony until it was brought up to me twice in 2 days. I thought this was odd because I have been in the SAN space for a few years and never heard of [...]