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Mobile VMs will Come to the Data for Analysis says EMC’s Gelsinger
Databases are becoming so huge, particularly for analytics and especially with big data, that they are essentially immobile, says EMC COO Pat Gelsinger, one of the many high profile CEOs to stop by theCube during VMworld 2011 (full video below). “You can’t even back up a 10-or 15-Pbyte environment. It will take you weeks just to ...
Latest Flash Storage Entrant Gunning for the Very High End
The latest entrant into the high-end flash storage arena, Pure Storage, came out of stealth mode at the VMware conference gunning for the highest of high ends, the high-availability (HA) market of mainly currency traders and other financial companies, Wikibon CTO David Floyer writes in a new alert titled “Pure Storage Aspires to Tier 1 ...
VMware Storage Direction May Put Parent EMC’s Needs Before Users, Says Wikibon CTO
Everybody seems to agree that storage is a big problem with virtualization, and at this week’s VMworld 2011, VMware and its parent, storage vendor EMC, spelled out their plan for fixing this problem. But, as Wikibon CTO David Floyer in a new Alert titled “VMware Storage Innovation, says, this direction may be tailored to defending ...
Dell Equalogic, iSCSI Deliver the Goods at Highly Virtualized Law Firm
A VMware customer for more than seven years and a Dell EqualLogic shop, Quarles & Brady LLP, a large, international law firm based in Milwaukee with offices in Illinois, Florida, Arizona, and China, runs on an 80% virtualized environment says Manager of Network Engineering Rich Raether. Specifically 280 of its 350 servers and all its ...
LAN, Security are Next Targets for VMware Virtualization
“Virtualization’s true promise is as a tool for mobility and availability,” Steve Herrod said in an interview in the Cube and webcast over SiliconAngle.TV from VMworld 2011 (full video below). “We’ve done a pretty good job with compute and storage in making things mobile in the sense of being available wherever I need them. Now ...
VMware Putting its Own Technologies to Work says CIO Mark Egan
Speaking at theCube with SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier and Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante, VMware Mark Egan talked about agility, bringing the customer experience into the corporation, and the changing focus of the CIO (full video below). “We’ve been looking at how we can save money for the company, how we can be more cost-effective,” he said ...
Storage Experts Predict Simplified IT and the Era of Flash
The Beyond Storage Virtualization panel discussion in the SiliconAngle program theCube from VMworld 2011 brought together experts and bloggers from HP, IBM, and Wikibon, to discuss their visions of the future of the storage industry. And for the most part they seemed to agree on a common vision. Wikibon CTO David Floyer started the session ...
HP Data Thrust is Delivering Performance in the Cloud, says HP Exec
“The mission of HP storage in a sentence is assisting customers to make the transition from enterprise to cloud,” says HP CTO for Storage and former Cloud Advisor Milan Shetti in an interview with Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante in the Cube at VMworld 2011 (full video below). “The biggest impediment to virtualizing mission-critical applications and ...
VDI Movement is Growing in both Private and Public Venues: VMware 2011
In the middle of the first day of VMworld 2011, three VDI experts gathered in the Cube to discuss the state of desktop virtualization and agreed in a discussion webcast live on SiliconAngle.tv that momentum is growing. VDI consultant and VMware vExpert Jason Langone from MicroTech and Andre Leibovici, senior vSpecialist at EMC and former ...
Cloud Foundry Developed on a Vision of Unlimited App Development
Cloud Foundry and its related tool set are designed to support the needs of the new generation of application developers, who want to use whatever development language best suits the needs of their project and who often need to develop for multiple platforms, including both public and private clouds, says VMware VP of Cloud and ...