Watching this recap video of the Dell Storage Forum in Orlando made me a little nostalgic. So, Just like I did for the inaugural Dell Storage Forum in Orlando last year, I thought I’d write a post with helpful hints for those of you coming to the Dell Storage Forum in London next week (as [...]
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Dell Storage Community at VMworld Copenhagen
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 [...]
category: VMworld
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
Symantec Vision Session – Dell & Symantec: E-mail and file archive solutions
Note: these are my (mostly) unedited session notes. This session focused on Dell DX object storage with Symantec Enterprise Vault Data starts when the data is created. Need bigger backups, need more primary storage. Storing is not the hard thing, the harder thing is managing the data. 90% of errors are human errors. So risk [...]
category: SymVision
