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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Discussing FlexPod and Infrastructure Solutions on the Cisco Blogger Tech Minute
On Monday I had the opportunity to sit down with Omar Sultan of Cisco and Fred Nix of EMC on the Cisco Blogger Tech Minute to discuss data center ecosystems and the role storage platforms play the adoption of agile, comprehensive infrastructure solutions. My thanks to the Cisco social media team and video production crew – it’s always a privilege to participate.
It’s Monday and I’m attending EMC World
This week EMC hosts their annual educational forum and technical conference, EMC World in Las Vegas. I’m not breaking news when I state the storage industry is a competitive landscape. What some may not realize is within the storage industry consists a large technical community of professionals and from this community friendships abound. These include friendships between those who compete with one another during their day job. Over the last several years I have been …
The ‘Storage Smackdown’ Now Available On Demand
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! In fact, the webinar was scheduled for 60 minutes and we were having such a great time we extended it …
Join Chad Sakac and I for a ‘Storage Smackdown’ Live Webinar
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 joint blog posts and participated in a number of storage related sessions at VMworld events. We’ve presented topics ranging from …
Cisco Live Q&A – EMC vSpecialists Tee Glasgow, Scott Lowe, Rick Scherer & Nick Weaver
As Cisco Live comes to a close I was able to sit down with some good friends in the vSpecialist organization at EMC to share their perspectives on Cisco Live and the adoption of Cloud computing. Joining me this morning is (from left to right): Rick Scherer – VCDX, Author of VMwareTips.com and vSpecialist at EMC. Tee Glasgow – Former WAN Engineer, UNIX SysAdmin, Solaris bigot, VMware employee #700-ish, and current EMC vSpecialist. Husband to …
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