The Virtual Storage Guy

IDC has published a new report investigating the emerging role pre-validated architecture solutions are providing in the transformation of delivering IT services. IDC shares the finding around the value and benefits delivered with the FlexPod datacenter infrastructure from Cisco and NetApp, and the VMware vSphere Built on FlexPod solution. Some areas of note in the report include… [...]

One day after sharing with you my customer engagement where we discussed provisioning ‘Storage for Desktops – Simple VersusComplicated‘ I was informed of a post from another storage vendor that verified my premise. While my post discussed 500 desktops with VMware View and the latter covered 1,000 with Citrix XenDesktop, the information I shared relating [...]

I’ve had some great meetings with a number of customers this week and in one of them they were very interested in understanding NetApp’s value proposition with VMware View. They were specifically interested in understanding how NetApp could deliver high levels of storage I/O from a dense, and cost-effective, storage footprint. As a point of [...]

Last week I introduced you to SnapProtect, our unified business continuance suite that leverages NetApp’s hardware-accelerated data protection capabilities to enhance and simplify business continuance processes. I believe the best way to share all of the goodness we have to offer with SnapProtect is to begin by reviewing the current state of business continuance. With [...]

I’m happy to share with you that we have opened a public beta program for the upcoming release of System Manager 2.0. SM2 is the next generation of our GUI management tool that enables storage administrators to manage multiple arrays and storage elements from a single interface. System Manager 2 provides a number of functions [...]

On behalf of NetApp, I’m writing to you with a simple proposition: For your next storage purchase, you should consider NetApp. Things move at a fast, if not exponential pace in the data center. The advent of virtual infrastructures and cloud computing has introduced a new set of requirements that redefined the value proposition of [...]