The Virtual Storage Guy

  Eric Siebert at vSphere-Land recently published the results for this year’s survey of the Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs. This year’s poll was expanded to include a number of new blogs & bloggers along with the addition of blog categories. I would like to thank everyone who supported the poll by voting and to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As expected last night’s ‘Storage Smackdown‘ webinar with Chad Sakac was fantastic. Topics of conversation spanned the spectrum to include thoughts on storage startups, points of integration, strengths of EMC & NetApp platfroms, and rumors around how Chad & I met. There was some serious amounts of information sharing, insight, and of course lots of laughs! [...]

OK, I’m not crazy about the term ‘Storage Smackdown’ as it communicates an adversarial position between Chad Sakac of EMC and I. Chad is one of my ‘Best Frenemies’ and we both share a deep passion to help our customers meet their business objective through advancing their cloud computing initiatives. In recent years we have authored [...]

I’m authoring this post while traveling to the West coast for a number of meetings with the teams at VMware & NetApp. On Tuesday, October 4th, I’ll be stepping out in order to attending Oracle Open World. I’ll be participating in the first half of a blogger meet-up scheduled in the NetApp booth from 1:00 – [...]