The Virtual Storage Guy

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 [...]

At Oracle Open World I had an opportunity to enter ‘The Cube’ and spend some time with Dave Vellante of Wikibon. Our conversation ended up on numerous topics that I hadn’t planned for (I thought we might talk a bit of database tech like NoSQL). None the less, the time with Dave was great and [...]

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 – [...]

From my customer conversations of late, there appears a trend developing. The desire for and confidence in the ability to virtualize Oracle Database is on the rise. I don’t mean to imply that customers aren’t seeking to virtualize other business critical applications; however, over the past six months Oracle has been the application that is [...]

The goal was to supass last year’s event and to raise money for a worthy cause. The location was selected. The stands were packed with spectators. Each team exuded the competitive nature of it’s players. The tournament began and the games were played with unbridled ferocity. There’s no crying in vOdgeball. When the games were [...]

On Monday, October 24 the Atlanta VMware Users Group will be holding their annual conference and it looks to be an outstanding event featuring numerous educational tracks, multiple keynote sessions, a massive exhibitor areas, vendor labs, and of course complimentary breakfast and lunch. I’ll be participating in this year’s event by hosting a ‘vTalk’ breakout [...]