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September 20, 2011VMwareI’d like to extend a heart-felt congratulations to the Cloupia Team here were notified this afternoon that they have completed the FlexPod validation program. Cloupia, a cloud automation and management software provider, offering a suite of cloud computing products and solutions to power the next generation dynamic data centers (http://www.cloupia.com) is based in Santa Clara, CA. They were on the floor with us at VMworld 2011 and we used their management suite to drive the FlexPod where our live demos were hosted. I’ll update the post within the next 2 days to discuss what the program is an what thisRead more →
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July 6, 2011VMwareI’ve had the opportunity to spend most of June engaging with customers on topics related to VMware, NetApp, and Cloud Computing. While the experience was enlightening, it did consume much of the time I would normally take to blog. As it is, there always seemed to be a common set of discussion points that I thought would be great to share with a larger audience, so prepare the blog cannon and fire on my mark… Taming the Cloud Monster I’ll spare you the traditional opening around defining clouds. Suffice it to say, every customer that I engaged with maintained aRead more →
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April 18, 2011VMwarePopulation: Zero: When our SOI investigates the death of the entire data population of a storage volume, they are contacted by a rogue x86 server, once employed in the legacy data center, who is set on revenge for past grievances. Our SOI must stop the server when it demands $10 million or it will kill another storage volume. NetApp: Storage Constructs for the Cloud As part of OnCommand, NetApp provides three integrated tools for the development of storage service bundles and catalogs: Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager and APIs to integrate third party applications and capabilities to extend these technologies. StorageRead more →
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April 13, 2011VMwareThe Solid Gold Kidnapping: Our SOI becomes involved in a series of storage resource kidnapping cases culminating in a demand in a billion dollar ransom delivered from the data center’s traditional storage arrays. When the ransom is hijacked by a competing legacy mainframe, Our SOI must use the power of integration to team up with the virtualization layer’s vCloud Director to extract the storage resources from the traditional storage array’s drives through data transfer technology. Storage Automation Storage automation is the ability to assign time-intensive and/or repetitive storage operations into a prescribed procedure that can be initiated by some eventRead more →
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April 12, 2011VMwareThe Solid Gold Kidnapping: Our SOI becomes involved in a series of storage resource kidnapping cases culminating in a demand in a billion dollar ransom delivered from the data center’s traditional storage arrays. When the ransom is hijacked by a competing legacy mainframe, Our SOI must use the power of integration to team up with the virtualization layer’s vCloud Director to extract the storage resources from the traditional storage array’s drives through data transfer technology. Storage orchestration The concept of orchestration is simply the efforts taken to identify and implement easier ways of managing complex storage environments. It improves theRead more →
