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VMware says vSphere + Docker is “Containers without Compromise”
During the day 2 keynote at VMworld, VMware CTO Ben Fathi and Raghu Raghuram, the general manage of SDDC for VMware, discussed integrations between VMware’s software and OpenStack and Docker. In particular, they talked at length about Docker’s Container software and positioned it as a complimentary and not a competitive technology, calling vSphere and Docker together a […]
STOP shipping adware to customers through Installers
Attention Software Vendors!! I kindly request that you STOP shipping adware to customers through your Installers. Twice this week, I have had installers attempt to add software onto my system that I never agreed to. CNET’s installer offered me a dose of extra adware for a program I needed on my Mac and today a vendor, whose product I […]
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 drives down flash to cost of spinning disk
This is part two of a two part series on enhancements to the HP 3PAR StoreServ platform announced at HP Discover in June. As I posted in my first part of this series, one of the best benefits to being an invited blogger at HP Discover is the opportunities to talk with HP’s technical staff and […]
Peer Persistence and Adaptive Optimization interoperation on 3PAR
This is part one of a two part series on enhancements to the HP 3PAR StoreServ platform announced at HP Discover in June. One of the biggest benefits of being an HP invited blogger for HP Discover is the opportunity to sit and talk with architects and executives during coffee talks and importu meetings in the bloggers […]
Book Review: VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials
VMware vSphere Resource Management Essentials is a great resource for users getting started with vSphere and trying to understand the principles of resource management in shared computing environments. Virtualization on vSphere introduces lots of concepts for a newcomer and this book does a great job explaining those concepts, required licensing and specific vSphere features. It is […]
Customers lose with Microsoft’s takeover of NoIP domains
You may have missed the news yesterday, but Microsoft coordinated a takeover a over 20 domain names held by dynamic DNS company NoIP. Microsoft took control of the 20 domains NoIP offers to customers as free dynamic DNS subdomains. In doing so, Microsoft was seeking to disable domains used by a couple of malware attacks that were […]
HP Pro 612 tablet aims to replace your work laptop
It wasn’t much of a surprise that when the HP Printers and Personal Systems group arrive to the blogger’s briefing, they were showing off a tablet. To be exact, HP’s PPS group brought the Pro 612 tablet to show off. The HP Pro 612 is targeted at business users and includes the full range of […]
Storage Essentials 9.7 shows off performance enhancements and new platform support
This week at HP Discover, the Storage Essentials team unwrapped version 9.7 of the product for customers to see. The next release, code-named Castle, features a number of enhancements with support for several new EMC storage platforms, support for Windows 2012 and updates to support a lot of new versions of array code. Storage Essentials […]
HP Data Protector will support Federated Catalyst at launch
This is a follow-up to an earlier blog post about Federated Catalyst, a new feature in HP StoreOnce D2D backup devices. See the earlier post for more information about Federated Catalyst. Without backup software to actually use Federated Catalyst, the technology itself doesn’t do much good, so my first question is when would Data Protector support […]
HP introducing Federated Catalyst to StoreOnce
This week at HP Discover, HP announced a new Federated Catalyst feature for the StoreOnce family of disk to disk backup arrays. The new capability will allow backup administrators to make large Catalyst stores on a StoreOnce and allow for data to be striped across all the back-end service sets in the array. Federated Catalyst […]
