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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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 [...]
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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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#NEVMUG and #techfieldday: previews of VMworld?
I went to the #NEVMUG summer slam this week. There were well over a thousand folks there. Dell was a sponsor, along with 17 or so of other companies who sell the products and services you need in your data center. The first half of the day, VMware employees presented on all sorts of topics. [...]
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