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PeakColo Presenting at VMware Partner Exchange

PeakColo Presenting at VMware Partner Exchange

Do you know which Cloud Service Provider… Is a top 10 member of the VMware® Service Provider Program and is the fastest growing? Was the first to be certified as VMware vCloud Powered? Has 7 international cloud nodes? Is the leading white-label SP? Run 100% on Clustered Data ONTAP? It’s PeakColo, a gold level sponsor of VMware Partner Exchange 2013. Join Luke Norris, CEO PeakColo and I on Wednesday, February 27th at 3:30 to learn …

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NetApp: The Must See Sessions at VMware PEX

NetApp: The Must See Sessions at VMware PEX

VMware Partner Exchange is being held in Las Vegas from February 23rd-28th. PEX is an annual virtualization and cloud infrastructure conference designed specifically to enable VMware partners to provide the best-in-class solutions with the goal to help position them for success. I’m happy to share with you that NetApp is once again a Global Diamond Sponsor of the event and we have a number of breakout sessions and boot camps available for you to take. …

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FlexPod Success Drives Increased Investments by Cisco and NetApp

FlexPod Success Drives Increased Investments by Cisco and NetApp

Today Cisco and NetApp announced an expanded partnership with the FlexPod platform. These investments build upon our shared goal to deliver a converged infrastructure that unifies enterprise clouds with branch offices and cloud service providers. With more than 2,100 customers in 35 countries and over 700 channel partners, FlexPod is leading the industry as the platform of choice. “FlexPod is one of the most complete private cloud architectures available.” (IDC) IDC 2011 white paper, “Accelerating …

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Presenting the Upstate New York VMUG Conference Keynote

Presenting the Upstate New York VMUG Conference Keynote

This morning I have the privilege of presenting the event keynote for the 2012 Upstate New York VMUG Conference. I will share a number of data points on the impact rampant data growth is having on cloud computing architectures and will offer my perspective on how to best address today and tomorrow’s challenges. The presentation will be storage vendor neutral and will speak to the specifics of storage with VMware technologies. We will begin at …

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I Didn’t Forget… vOdgeball 2012

I Didn’t Forget… vOdgeball 2012

I’m willing to bet many thought I had forgotten to post about vOdgeball, the annual dodgeball tournament that for many marks the start of VMworld. Who would have ever imagined Fred Nix’s desire to assemble ‘Mathletes’ for the purposes of displaying athletic prowess would ever have caught on? There’s a reason I’m in IT and let’s just say it’s not because of my ‘cat like’ reflexes. From such a unique vision vOdgeball was born. The …

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NetApp Wins the First Ever VMworld Challenge

NetApp Wins the First Ever VMworld Challenge

During the day 2 general session at VMworld, VMware CTO Steve Herrod gave each of the VMworld Global Diamond Sponsor 4 minutes to do deliver a demo of their latest vSphere integrations and capabilities. These demos were presented to a massive room, packed with 10,000 VMworld attendees. Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp all presented… The crowd voted for the demo they found to be the best… NetApp Won! Scratch that, NetApp Stole the Show! …

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