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… [...]

Check out the great conversation I had with Abhinav Joshi of Cisco and Joe Onisick of WWT around our partnership, FlexPod, SMT, Automation, CVDs, and enabling partners. Thanks to Didier Rombaut of Cisco and Friea Berg of NetApp for bringing us together for this conversation.  

My week here in Vegas started with breakfast with Cisco’s Abhinav Joshi, VMware’s Wade Holmes, and NetApp’s Friea Berg. You probably already know this bunch from Twitter or their blogs, but for those who may not know them allow me to share a quick intro: Abhinav is a Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Cisco. He [...]

NetApp brings together industry-leading IT infrastructure providers who specialize in commercial software and hardware technologies and whose benefits are optimized by NetApp storage innovations and OpenAPI ecosystem. One of these leaders is DynamicOps, who provides one of the most flexible platform for orchestrating and automating the delivery and management of private cloud services. Recently I [...]

Cloud computing means that users have easy, yet controlled, access to shared storage, compute, and networking infrastructure with on-demand provisioning – aka ‘IT as a Service’. If you’re interested in learning more about how NetApp and NewScale make ITaaS a reality then I’d like to invite you to join Jason Schroedl (VP of marketing at [...]

Today BMC Software and Cisco announced a strategic alliance to develop and market new solutions for large-scale multi-tenant cloud computing infrastructures. This is phenomenal news as last year NetApp and BMC formed our strategic alliance to provide joint customers with the solutions and infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of cloud infrastructures. Today’s announcement will result [...]