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Nutanix 4.6 Features Overview - Part 1 (Beyond Marketing)

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:00:21 +0000

Update: Part two of the series can be found here.

Only four months after releasing Nutanix Based Software 4.5 (read Prism Central and NOS 4.5, NCC 2.1, Foundation 3.0 and MORE Tech Preview Features – What’s New!), a major release with multiple new features and improvements, Nutanix is once again pushing out a major release with tons of new features and huge performance improvements (here Official Press Release).

Storage Portfolio Vendors want you to believe Silos are good

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:04:20 +0000

I have been meaning to write this article for a while, but a recent post from an employee at a storage portfolio vendor describing why organizations ought to desire to operate their IT infrastructure using siloed storage platforms made me deeply think about organizations’ realities, challenges and the requirements to deliver applications and services in todays’ competitive realities.

A Rant About Storage Vendors

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:10:14 +0000

I have recently been invited to present in a VMware User Group (VMUG), which I quickly answered with a big and resounding Yes! I really love to present and touch base with customers as that helps me to keep it real, instead of being a lab rat type of engineer/architect.

See you at EMC World 2013 next week!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:55:42 +0000

If you are attending EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas next week and is interested in how to effectively deliver Desktop-as-a-Service using EMC technologies you should attend my session with EMC's Matt Cowger.

In this session we will discuss what DaaS really mean to organizations and what are the associated challenges - infrastructure resiliency, licensing costs, IO Profiles, self-service, storage design and architecture. From a VMware perspective I will also touch on different technologies available Today that make DaaS a reality.

EMC World 2013 & EUC

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:40:08 +0000

EMC World is only in May (May, 6-9) but I am very excited because for the first time I'll have a session in such amazing conference. As most of you probably know I used to work for EMC as a vSpecialist, and that's what makes it even more special. I am also looking forward to meet my EMC colleagues.

Why use storage for VDI?

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:30:39 +0000

The storage technologies and vendors available on the market today have definitely evolved from simple spindle RAID groups and one tier caching mechanism available from 5 years ago. The options are so many that it’s not only difficult to understand and grasp all different technologies, but almost impossible to compare them side-by-side.

Large View Deployment with vCenter Operations Manager PlugIn

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:00:15 +0000

During EMC World 2012 the Hands-On Labs about 20,000 VMs were created and destroyed. Each Hands-On Lab is an individual vCloud VApp instantiated on-demand and it contains the essential VMs for the Hands-On Lab. Additionally, each Hands-On Lab has a Windows 7 VM with View Agent that is manually added to a VMware View deployment to allow desktop brokering and PCoIP access.

VDI 500 User FAST Pool Project

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:23:00 +0000

If you have been following my recent posts you probably noticed that few of them relate to EMC storage arrays with FAST Cache and FAST VP implementation. If you would like to know more about how FAST Cache works I suggest the reading my article EMC FAST Cache effectiveness with VDI.

VDI Steady State Workload with VNX FAST Cache [Video]

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Last week I published the first of a series of videos that I have been recording for use by the EMC vSpecialist team. The videos are focused on VDI and EMC technology. The first one was VDI Bootstorm with VNX FAST Cache [Video].

EMC FAST Cache effectiveness with VDI

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:06:00 +0000

It is not often that a technology amazes me so much that makes me go from disbeliever to evangelizer. EMC’s FAST Cache is worth every single penny you pay for a EMC Storage solution.

Before I go on I need to make a disclosure here – I work for EMC. If you follow my blog and articles you know that I try as much as possible to be vendor neutral and focus specifically on the technology– and that’s what I am doing here in the VDI context.

How to offload Write IOs from VDI deployments

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:34:00 +0000

One of the major concerns in a VDI solution is the end-user experience. Poor user experience = Low user acceptance. I have discussed this paradigm in my article VDI USER EXPERIENCE and USER ACCEPTANCE.

Behind the scenes and hidden in the physical supporting infrastructure there are a number of factors contributing for possible poor user experience. The most common pain points are network and storage.

Cisco Radio @ VMware vForum Brazil 2011

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:31:00 +0000

During the VMware vForum Brazil 2011 I was interviewed by Brazilian news agencies on subjects such as VDI, Cloud, EMC and VMware integration. Cisco has a local online radio with music and IT interviews.

VMware vForum Brazil 2011

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:50:27 +0000

Last week I had the opportunity to discuss VDI and EUC (End User Computing) solutions with EMC customers in Brazil. I also had the awesome oportunity to present one of the keynotes at the VMware vForum Brazil 2011.

Despite not being early adopters the numbers provided by a IDC research place Latin America, specially Brazil, as fast adopters of virtualization and cloud computing models.

VPLEX – Missing enabler component for the Follow-the-Sun Datacenter?

Thu, 20 May 2010 18:29:00 +0000

If you are reading this post you are also probably aware that EMC publically introduced a new product on the market during EMC World 2010 – the VPLEX. If not, start here. As mentioned by Chad Sacak here VPLEX leverage what the New geo-dispersed write cache coherency technology.

VCE - Virtual Computing Environment Coalition Webcast

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:22:00 +0000

In continuation to my previous post about the VCE Coalition watch here the webcast (Introducing the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition) with John Chambers, Joe Tucci, and Paul Maritz.

Also read Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware: Vblock Top Three Questions by Mark Bowker

Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:34:37 +0000

Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware today announced a joint venture to sell a new integrated data center product, dubbed vBlock.

Think of vBlock as the plug and play data-center solution, it will consist of Cisco UCS/Nexus/MDS, EMC Storage and VMware Virtualization all within a pre-designed and built rack solution - simply drop it in your data-center, plug it in and deploy virtual machines. This is not really any different than purchasing HP Servers, NetApp Storage and VMware licenses separately. Ultimately it is the same solution, but now with a single SKU that partners will be able to sell.

What does that mean to you if your organization already have a fully deployed cloud computing environment? Probably nothing.