Well, it has been about 3 days or so since I have returned from VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in Las Vegas, and to be honest, there still hasn’t been enough time to fully digest all of what I took in while at the conference. At the same time, I thought it would be a ...

Not so fast! Before you trade in your backup solution for Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAGs) plus some mix of VMware vMotion, High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), think twice. While there’s no debating the value of DAGs for providing fault-tolerance and ensuring high availability of Exchange database volumes (DAGs allow for ...

I’ve have had the opportunity lately to participate in a number of EMC Forums, and one of the things I’ve been talking with users about is how to leverage backup and recovery solutions to accelerate virtualization so they can realize the benefits of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) sooner. As we talked about in Part I of this ...

FORWARD 100 LEFT 90 FORWARD 100 LEFT 90 FORWARD 100 LEFT 90 FORWARD 100 LEFT 90 I remember learning this Lingo program in grade school, and I remember using one of Steve Job’s creations – the Apple IIe ─ to do it. Yep, instructing a “turtle” to draw a square on the screen started it ...

For a CIO and his/her implementation team on the journey to the private cloud, there is nothing more stress relieving (okay, except maybe for a week on a Caribbean island) than being able to meet or even exceed your SLAs without having to do all the heavy IT lifting yourself.  No need for you to ...

Another day and another VMworld gone by – well, almost. And what a week it’s been. I have the good fortune of spending most (okay, pretty much all) of my time in the Hands-On Labs (HOLs). It’s been quite the experience, to say the least. What we have been able to put together and demonstrate ...

It goes without saying that virtualization has become the new standard and foundation for delivering IT applications. So, if your organization hasn’t gone through this type of paradigm shift yet, consider this fair warning. Organizations of all sizes from SMBs to large enterprises are looking to cut IT-related OPEX costs while at the same time ...

One of the things I truly love about my job is the interaction I get to have with customers. Whether it’s at a hands-on lab at industry events like VMworld, an EMC Executive Briefing Center or some other locale, being able to talk with customers about their environments — hearing firsthand what’s working and what’s ...

As any good wife would do, my wife has been dragging me to yoga classes over the last year and a half. Of course, she is doing this because she is concerned about my health and well-being like any good wife would be.  At first I was okay with this. I mean, how bad it ...