Today, we are very pleased to announce the latest private cloud offering from NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft: FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud. This reference implementation is our second major generation of private cloud solution built on Windows Server 2008 R2. The major update for this version is that we are now fully integrated with System [...]
March 14, 2012
FlexPod: The Momentum Continues
NetApp is a Platinum sponsor for Cisco Live Melbourne, one of the premier annual conferences focused on sharing high-level visionary insights and deep-dive technical education, presented by Cisco executives, subject matter experts, and technology partners. At the end of this week I will begin my travels from the United States to Australia to support the [...]
March 6, 2012
Business Critical Applications on VMware and NetApp
At Partner Exchange 2012 I sat down with Wen Yu, Alliances Engineer at VMware, to discuss the technologies, integrations and joint solutions available from VMware & NetApp for customers looking to virtualizing business critical applications such as Oracle databases, SAP, Java apps, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. For more information on these solutions [...]
March 6, 2012
Virtualizing Oracle Databases on VMware and NetApp
At Partner Exchange 2012 I had the opportunity to sit down with Bob Goldsand, Alliances Partner Architect at VMware, to discuss the benefits of virtualizing Oracle databases with VMware and NetApp. Bob was the primary architect supporting Green Mountain Power. Their story of virtualizing Oracle RAC and how the private cloud infrastructure was put to [...]
February 28, 2012
Predictions for 2012 – Better Late than Never
Recently Scott Lowe shared that he could identify the level of my workload based on the duration between my blog posts. I found his comment was quite insightful as things have been rather busy of late. Inside of NetApp we’re wrapping up engineering efforts for the release of something truly revolutionary. As you’d expect this [...]
February 27, 2012
Thoughts on Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5
This article originally appears in Tech OnTap – If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing to Tech OnTap. NetApp recently published an update to our storage best practices for VMware® that highlights the new capabilities of VMware vSphere® 5 and NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8. This updated technical report (TR) covers a number of new capabilities [...]
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April 18, 2012
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