During last week’s HP Discover 2011 event, Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton) raised a very interesting point regarding the way VMware potentially intend to control the storage space through VMFS and the apparent contradiction in terms of also pushing off tasks to the storage array through VAAI. I thought it worth expanding on [...]
Last week I took part in a special Infosmack recording at the HDS Bloggers’ Day. You can find a link to the recording here, via The Register;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/hds_storage_virtualisation_podcast/
Unfortunately we still didn’t have the Hu v Claus benchpress competiton, but hey….
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Greg Knieriemen – @knieriemen [...]
Well, it appears from comments on recent blog entries that I’m all of the above! The post(s) in question are as follows;
http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/08/02/netapp-the-inflexibility-of-flexvols/ http://storagebod.typepad.com/storagebods_blog/2010/08/and-bod-makes-three.html http://www.grumpystorage.com/2010/08/notapp-random-thoughts.html http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/netapp-some-good-and-some-errrrr/
I thank those who have made positive comments on my behalf, it is most appreciated. I find it even more [...]
Unfortunately I can’t blog on the first day of the uValue trip due to NDA restrictions, however what I can do is show you some video. This is our trip to the electronics district in Tokyo. We didn’t find anything earth shattering, but after a couple of hours walking around in the heat, I think [...]
Finally arrived at the DoubleTree in San Jose. Met up with Devang, Nigel and Simon at the airport and shared a leisurely hour discussing our thoughts as we travelled to the hotel. Thanks to Stephen and Claire for a great limo!
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