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Octember
October appears to have been devoured by the travel monster. Between EMC Forums, VMworld Barcelona and the Backup Recovery Systems partner events, I’m losing weeks at a time. I suppose I’d better...
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The Challenge of Creating Executive Digital Literacy
The premise is simple yet powerful: our world is quickly becoming a digital one. Business models established in the physical world now need to be re-imagined and re-invented in the new digital one....
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Out on iBooks finally – vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive
It took about about a month to get this published, but here it finally is: vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive on iBooks. Yeah yeah, we know… you also want Nook and lulu.com says it is pending so that...
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Limit the amount of eggs in a single basket through vSphere 5.1 DRS
A while back I had discussion with someone and he asked me if it was possible to limit the amount of eggs in a single basket, in other words limit the amount of VMs per host. The reason this customer...
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Oracle and EMC Help Protect Against Silent Data Corruption
One of the painful realities in the enterprise storage world is silent data corruption. An application sends a perfectly formed write to the storage array, but the bits get scrambled along the way....
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The CIO Survey: Big Data Is Hotter Than You Might Think
We here at EMC tend to care greatly about what IT leaders around the globe are thinking about -- no surprise. We spend a great deal of time in face-to-face settings. We subscribe to a wide range of...
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Chads Choice Webcast Sept 27th, presentation and recording
All – my VMworld 2012 SF recap (with loads of links) and VMworld 2012 Barcelona preview webcast from last week is now up! You can download the recording of the webcast here, and click on the...
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Friendly Advice For The IT Service Provider
"What we've got here is a failure to communicate" -- Donn Pearce, Cool Hand Luke I get to see both sides. I meet with dozens of enterprise IT organizations that can clearly benefit from what IT...
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EMC and NCSA Offer Free Online Identity Risk Calculator
Initial Results from Online Identity Risk Calculator Shows Risk Exposure to Internet-borne Threats Highest Among Young Adults; Women Slightly Edge Out Men
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Configuring VXLAN…
Yesterday I got an email about configuring VXLAN. I was in the middle of re-doing my lab so I figured this would be a nice exercise. First I downloaded vShield Manager and migrated from regular...
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Want To Learn To Lead An IT Transformation?
An interesting opportunity has just bubbled up around the whole topic of IT transformation -- especially for IT leadership. Maybe you'd be interested? Our own Wayne Pauley has tackled a very ambitious...
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EMC Shows Transformational IT at VMworld® 2012 Europe
To Demonstrate and Announce Transformative Information Infrastructure Technology with Pervasive VMware Integrations; Brian Gallagher, Enterprise Storage President to Deliver Spotlight Session
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EMC Extends Interoperability Licensing Agreement with IBM for IBM zEnterprise...
Agreement Enables Mainframe Customers to Leverage EMC VMAX Storage and Fully Automated Storage Tiering Software in IBM zEnterprise Environments—Including zEC12
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New Integrated EMC Software Solutions Advance Patient Care, Reduce Healthcare...
Integrated Patient Record Solutions Empower Healthcare Organizations to Access, Share, and Transform Disparate Patient Data Regardless of Format and Location
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VXLAN requirements
When I was writing my “Configuring VXLAN” post I was trying to dig up some details around VXLAN requirements and recommendations to run a full “VMware” implementation. Unfortunately I couldn’t find...
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CloudPhysics adds functionality: VM reservations/limits and Snapshots
CloudPhysics just announced two new cards. One card is titled “Snapshots Gone Wild Card“, the other is titled “VM Reservations & Limits Card“. This is the direct result of the contest that...
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Restoring an iPad that is in perpetual recovery mode
My iPad crashed a couple of weeks back… and as this is the iPad that my kids used it was code red! I tried powering it on but the screen remained black. I figured I was completely out of battery so...
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Pluggable Databases Vs. Database Virtualization
I love this industry. On one hand, you can clearly see the megatrends that are driving change. On the other hand, not every vendor reacts to these trends in the same way. That's what makes things so...
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RSA Executives Assert Security Budgets Require Better Alignment to Address...
RSA Conference Keynote Addresses Security Challenges and Successes of Organizations Facing Evolving Risks and Advanced Threats
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New RSA Research Tackles Mounting Risks from Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
19 Global Security Chiefs Deliver Strategic Guidance to Capture Mobile Business Opportunities in Latest Report
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