Friday, March 5th, 2010
Vaughn Stewart is the Virtualization Evangelist for NetApp and a member of the Reference Architecture Team. He is the co-author of several whitepapers on integrating VMware technologies on NetApp systems. Vaughn publishes the blog: the Virtual Storage Guy, has a patent pending, and has earned industry certifications on technologies offered ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Hi there, and welcome to this months vNews. A monthly round up of what’s going on in the world of virtualization. Yeah, I scan all the blogs – filter out what I can and then regurgitate it for you pleasure. That doesn’t sound nice. I do these occasionally for the ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
I recently made the move over to using an Apple MBP, and was able to find the full Mac Client for my new laptop. The wheels came off when it came to licensing. Seems like I had temporary license on my MBP which when it expired wouldn’t be cleared. It ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Here’s a round up of my favourite articles on the TechTarget site. VDI is a hot hot hot topic this week. At the top of my agenda this year is getting familiar with the XenDesktop product – and these need to know articles do help in that process.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
In this quick little tip I show you how you can use EMC Storage Viewer – to bridge the gap between the information you see in EMC NaviSphere application and the information you see in vSphere4. For years VMware Admins have struggled to map their datastores in ESX to the ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Well, OK – I guess now that View4 has been released you could say this is a little old hat. But… much I what I write about in View3 is much the same in View4! Honestly! Someday I plan to revisit this series of articles probably when VMware ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Here’s all the articles I wrote about the NetApp Rapid Clone Utility 3.0 available on TechTarget.com. The three articles build as series to show you the full functionality of the NetApp RCU 3.0. At the time I wrote this – 3.0 was in beta but I imagine it has GA’d ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
According to popular mythology many people mistaken think Al Renouf is French. He is in fact British, and his name probably reflects many centuries of Gallic influence in the United Kingdom. You might know Al by his punning website and twitter handle – virtu-al. When he’s not chasing spiders out ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Following on from my recent “Chinwag” with Gabrie Van Zanten, this blogpost compares the relative merits of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. It raises the issue that a VDI project does offer the tempting possibility of considering other virtualization vendors other than VMware. It also posits the idea that by ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
There’s a live Q&A with the Microsoft virtualization team next Tuesday (23rd February) from 4pm to 7pm on Vistaheads. Representatives from Microsoft, including Senior Product Manager for System Center Virtual Machine Manager Edwin Yuen, will be fielding questions and contributing to discussions about the future of the virtualization industry. Topics ...
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