The Virtual Storage Guy

At Partner Exchange 2012 I sat down with Wen Yu, Alliances Engineer at VMware, to discuss the technologies, integrations and joint solutions available from VMware & NetApp for customers looking to virtualizing business critical applications such as Oracle databases, SAP, Java apps, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint.   For more information on these solutions [...]

At Partner Exchange 2012 I had the opportunity to sit down with Bob Goldsand, Alliances Partner Architect at VMware, to discuss the benefits of virtualizing Oracle databases with VMware and NetApp. Bob was the primary architect supporting Green Mountain Power. Their story of virtualizing Oracle RAC and how the private cloud infrastructure was put to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]