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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Live blog – from the Symantec Vision keynote

Note: this is as close to live blog as I could get … I couldn’t get on the wireless and then I realized I left my adapter in the hotel room. This is my first time covering a conference in Europe for me…I’m learning! I’ve edited the notes mostly so they would make sense to [...]

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v0dgeball – get ready for the Cloudbunnies!

We’ve heard from some of the other teams (EMC vSpecialists, XaaS Badgers) and some of the fans (@sthulin, @mjbrender). Now it’s time to hear from the only vendor neutral v0dgeball  team at VMworld this year: the Cloudbunnies. Who are we? We are a group of women from six different technical companies. The idea came from [...]

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You can help shape Dell storage product features

Are you an EqualLogic customer? Do any of the following statements sound like you? You have “hands-on” storage responsibilities within vCenter. You back up VMs, create snapshots, set up replication, create datastores, or other storage tasks from within vCenter. You have more than one EqualLogic Group You manage EqualLogic Groups in disparate geographic locations If [...]

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