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Diving Deeper into Isilon OneFS 7.0
At Thanksgiving last week, I couldn’t help but feel cheesy as I thought about all the things I was thankful for. One of the many items on my list was what we’ve been able to achieve here at Isilon...
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Survey Time: vSphere FT
If you have a couple of spare minutes… please fill out this survey about vSphere FT, it would be very helpful for our Product Management team. It takes about 10 minutes to get through. "Survey Time:...
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vSphere 5.x Space Reclaim and EMC Symmetrix
While there’s a TON of stuff going on (in the middle-to-final parts of EMC 2013 planning), I haven’t done a post in a while. There’s plenty of great stuff, and I still haven’t been able to get...
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December Webcast Series!
Every week, Thursday is “EMC/VMware webcast Thursday!” (same bat time – 11-12ET + same bat channel – EMC Live) December has 3 sessions coming up. The first on the 6th is how we engineer VSPEX stacks...
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Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster
I had this question yesterday where the error “Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster” comes from. And although it is hopefully clear to all of my regular readers this is...
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The Emergence Of Dispersed Clouds
Almost four years ago, I wrote a post that speculated on the emergence of a very particular type of cloud -- a private cloud. Fast forward, and you'll find private clouds everywhere -- it's certainly...
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When Big Data Changed Marketing At EMC
The premise is simple: big data has the power to fundamentally change almost everything we do. No industry or function appears to be immune from the tantalizing power of predictive models. There are...
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Thinking of stretching your vSphere cluster? Now2x further, 2x lower entry cost!
The topic of stretched clusters is HOT. While a few years back, this was not for the faint of heart (unclear support model), mutually exclusive with VMware SRM, and relatively rare – fast-forward to...
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vSphere SRM 5.1 - Recoverpoint SRA passes the cert
Just got the internal word – was pushing for this hard when I was in Israel a week back, and glad to see it out… (thank you to the Recoverpoint team!) “Just got the word from VMware that the SRM......
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Syncplicity -- A Big Win For IT ... And The Business
Every now and then I come across something that seems rather humble when I first encounter it, but then progressively becomes more fascinating as I dig deeper. Such is the case with Syncplicity: an...
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That’s my View and I’m sticking to it
Minimizing the clicks & Better Performance As some of you may know, I’m a user (and fan) of virtual desktops. I’ve been using a VMware View-based virtual desktop now at EMC for about 2+ years....
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The Power Of Visual Thinking?
If you look at how our brains are wired, an enormous amount of capacity is dedicated to visual processing: recognition, pattern detection, etc. While everyone's preferred thinking modes may differ,...
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EMC and Capgemini Launch Case-as-a-Service Solution to Transform Case Management
Fully-Managed Service, Built on EMC Documentum xCP, Can reduce Costs and Time to Delivery by Up to 30 Update your feed preferences
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A Unique Charity
If you're a long-time reader of this blog, you'll realize that -- not once -- have I ever made a charitable appeal here. My reasoning was simple: as there are so many deserving charitable efforts out...
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EMC Technology Directions
These days, EMC has meaningful investments in a increasingly wide range of technology areas, far beyond our original enterprise storage roots: virtualization, security, big data analytics,...
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Gartner Talks Future IT Scenarios
This week, Gartner held its Symposium/ITxpo in Barcelona, Spain. Given that -- here in New England -- we were treated to three inches of fresh snow and howling winds, I certainly felt a pang of regret...
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Finally, Another Interesting Take On A Global File System
Stop me if you've heard this before -- wouldn't it be great if we could make all of our local file servers around the globe act like a single giant intelligent file server? I can count at least a...
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Baby, what time is it? The importance of time with VMware SSO
For the past week or so, in my copious spare time, I’ve been re-building my vLab at work. It’s a cobbled together menagerie of hardware that makes me wish I had a healthier budget so I could spend...
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From SQL to SharePoint
This past week we just finished attending and supporting Microsoft SQL PASS Summit, the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals. SQL PASS was a big success with over 5000 attendees and there was...
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Righting a wrong Wassup with VSI/SDRS/VASA?
At VMworld during session STO2980 (joint session with Vaughn from NetApp) there is a regular spot where we ask the audience for: Do you use the vendor vCenter plugins (EMC’s Virtual Storage Integrator...
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