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… Today’s datacenter challenges Developing a strategy for a virtualized datacenter Management gains enabled by converged infrastructure solutions Secure Multi-Tenancy deployment …
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Has NetApp Abandoned Unified Storage?
The first and only unified storage array vendor, has long been the hallmark of NetApp. Yet with the acquisitions of Bycast and Engenio it appears NetApp may be abandoning the concept of a unified storage array. Is this true, has NetApp abandoned their position on unified storage? If you’re a NetApp customer maybe you feel that your NetApp sales representative fudged the truth a bit when they stated that a NetApp FAS array could, ‘meet …
An Important VMworld Announcement
This just in, I’m very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco and Copenhagen. Needless to say I’m honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we’ve already begun creating and compiling content. This session will follow the them of our previous joint best practice posts on …
vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
What began in late 2005 with Vanderpool continued today with the release of vSphere 4.1… Vanderpool was the code name of Intel’s Virtualization Technology of x86 (or VT-x), which introduced extended page tables and enabled multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on an x86 computer in a safe and efficient manner. VT-x was the first means of hardware acceleration for VMware and the other x86 hypervisor vendors. With today’s release of vSphere 4.1 VMware has …
VMware vSphere VAAI Demo with NetApp
With today’s release of vSphere 4.1 I’m confident that some may want to see the vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI) in action with NetApp arrays. If you count yourself in this group you can catch the NetApp demo of the APIs from VMworld 2009 (September, 2009). If we had the APIs in Data ONTAP ready back in the fall of 2009, just imagine where we might be with the next release of VAAI APIs…
VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp
Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I haven’t received confirmation from John Troyer, it appears the catalog is a work in progress. I make this suggestion, as a number of our session confirmations have yet to be published online. As many of you may know, past two years …
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