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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How to get performance data from a First Generation VNXe

How to get performance data from a First Generation VNXe (VNXe3100, VNXe 3150, or VNXe3300) You will need the SPCollects from the VNXe (Instructions here). You can easily [...]

How to: Deploy OpenStack at home using DevStack

DevStack is an easy to deploy test platform for people who want to start playing with OpenStack but are not ready to do a full deployment. Over the years it has become easier [...]

Will VMware survive a post-virtualization world?

I read an article today asking, "Will VMware survive a post-virtualization world"? This is a very interesting question since the industry is an an intersection moving from [...]

ScaleIO Bandwidth Calculation

I was watching some training videos on EMC's new ScaleIO and at one point they briefly talked about calculating Bandwidth for a ScaleIO cluster. The math seems easy enough but [...]

EMC Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud on vSphere

I was looking into EMC's new Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution (EHC). This new solution takes advantage of powerful integration points that have been developed by [...]

VNX OE for Block 05.33.006.5.096 (Salmon River)

VNX OE for Block 05.33.006.5.096 (Salmon River) was just released with some major improvements to the VNX2. I have laid out some notes from the announcement that I am really [...]