Last year I made my first attempt at predicting what I thought would transpire with storage technologies and their use, integration, and trends related to server virtualization and cloud computing in 2011. I found sharing my views quiet enjoyable; however half the fun in making a prediction is following up to review them for accuracy. [...]
January 27, 2012
FlexPod Success Story: The Walz Group
Hopefully to some readers the Walz Group may ring a bell. In July of 2011 I attended Cisco Live where I had the privilege to spend time with Bart Falzarano, the Chief Information Security Officer at the Walz Group. Bart allowed me to share his perspective in a blog post where he discussed the requirements of [...]
January 27, 2012
Vote for the Top VMware & Virtualization blogs
Eric Siebert and the team at vSphere-land are seeking your vote in their annual Survey of the Top VMware & Virtualization focused Blogs. If you’re a technically minded individual like me, then I’m sure there are a handful of bloggers and/or blogs that your read regularly for their industry insight, technical knowledge, practical tips, and [...]
January 27, 2012
NetApp set to rock VMware Partner Exchange 2012 (PEX)
In a little over two weeks many will converge on Las Vegas to attend Partner Exchange (or as us geeks prefer to say ‘PEX’), VMware’s annual conference dedicated to educating and enabling the partner community. As you would expect, NetApp is again a platinum sponsor for the event and has a load of fantastic [...]
January 24, 2012
Virtualize SAP: A Blueprint for Success
This post was originally published in Decmeber, 2011 for VMware’s Global Alliances Blog… Since VMworld 2011 there’s been a noticeable increase in customer confidence around the ability to successfully virtualize the most demanding business critical applications. The list of applications commonly being considered often includes business applications powered by database technologies like Oracle RAC and [...]
December 13, 2011
Share How You Tackle IT Challenges and You May Win a Vespa Scooter!
NetApp is seeking IT’s Top Survivor, the geeks’ geek, the architect of the next ‘big thing’ inside of your organization. Does this description sound like you? If so then we’d like to hear from you. By sharing how you have addressed one of your most difficult IT challenges you may win a Vespa Scooter! If [...]






January 30, 2012
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