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 [...]
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Dell Storage is at Symantec Vision in Barcelona this week
This week is slamming for Dell Storage – we are at four conferences! We’re at the Microsoft SharePoint conference. Jeff Sullivan and Alison Krause are at Oracle Open World. Dennis Smith is at Interop. And I’m at Symantec Vision. “VISION” is Symantec’s annual user and partner conference, organized in venues around the world. This week [...]
WRAP-UP: Dell Storage announcement – EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 5 tools
This Monday, Dell announced a ton of new offerings for EqualLogic and tools for VMware vSphere 5. You saw the social media press release, right? In case you missed any of the links, here is what was announced: EqualLogic EqualLogic PS4100 Series EqualLogic PS6100 Series EqualLogic FS7500 EqualLogic software enhancements SAN HQ 2.2 Host Integration [...]
Dell Storage Forum – preview reviews, and what’s on deck for Day 1
I’m writing this from the Dell Storage Forum Fluid Blogger’s Lounge. We still have some set up to do – the hotel IT guys are here right now setting up some ethernet drops for us. We should be ready to rock and roll tomorrow morning! I thought I’d take a minute to share some of [...]
What its really all about – getting social at Interop
I think Stephen Foskett said it best in this post: “We are social people, and nothing beats meeting someone face to face.” Last week, Interop and EMC World were held in Vegas. (You can check out my review of Interop in this post). That meant a lot of storage people where in sin city at [...]

