The Dell Storage crew was at VMworld Copenhagen last week. I would have done my normal live blogging and tweeting, but I had technical issues. So I did things the old-fashioned way….I used a pen and the notebook included in the VMworld backpacks. Digital recap Fortunately Rafael Knuth of the Dell Tech Center in Germany [...]
Archives for October, 2011
Beer: the essential ingredient for successful community building
I don’t know if it was Bitnorth, spending the last couple of nights communing in Barcelona with other members of the internal Dell Storage community, or the tweets coming from my friend Ed Saipetch at Monktoberfest, but I have finally decided to write this post. Beer | [ wine | $someOtherBeverage ] is an essential [...]
category: community building
Symantec Vision Session: Winning with Dell Storage + Symantec
Note: This is my (almost) live blog from yesterday’s session with Andrew Corcoran & Ed Casmer. Traditional dcs are too rigid for evolving biz needs IT has too spend most of the $$ supporting existing infrastructure, not expanding to new techs virtualization + automation helps w costs, CapEx limits 1.2 Trillion spent annually just to [...]
category: SymVision
Symantec Vision Session: Dell Storage and Symantec enable the full benefits of server virtualization
Note: these are my (mostly) unedited session notes. The session focused on backup best practices for virtualization. Other live blogs from VISION can be found here and here. 70-90% of backups are not restorable Backup windows are huge Virtualization makes these problems worse easy to make VMs, VM sprawl etc, portable, VDI (great target for [...]
category: SymVision
