The Virtual Storage Guy

Today, we are very pleased to announce the latest private cloud offering from NetApp, Cisco and Microsoft:  FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud.  This reference implementation is our second major generation of private cloud solution built on Windows Server 2008 R2.  The major update for this version is that we are now fully integrated with System [...]

Recently Scott Lowe shared that he could identify the level of my workload based on the duration between my blog posts. I found his comment was quite insightful as things have been rather busy of late. Inside of NetApp we’re wrapping up engineering efforts for the release of something truly revolutionary. As you’d expect this [...]

I think we all know what it means to be “On a Roll”. This is a state when an individual or organization experiences a series of sucess. NetApp has obviously been ‘On a Roll’ of late. I believe that being widely recognized as a leader of innovation and as great place to work globally, along [...]

Big news this morning from the Storage Developer’s Conference (SDC) at the SNIA Cloud Plugfest in Santa Clara, California. Microsoft announced the availability of the SMB 2.2 protocol (formerly known as CIFS). Details include a number of new functional specifications along with support for running Hyper-V 3.0 and applications over the updated NAS protocol with the [...]

I’d like to share with you a nice post from Glenn Sizemore, a VMware vExpert and a technical expert in our Microsoft Business Unit. He’s one of the many talented folks designing Hyper-V on NetApp solutions and architectures to run virtualized instances of Microsoft applications on Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, etc. Glen authored a nice post [...]

Over the past 5 years, server virtualization has changed the data center forever and these changes have had a far-reaching impact on data center architectures and operations. One of the areas often discussed as having been affected, is the ever increasing shared storage footprint. I’d suggest to you, that in my customer engagements storage costs [...]