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A couple posts ago , discussing Netapp CEO, Tom Georgens' now famous quote on tiering , I wrote: To be fair, Georgens DID get support from the contrarian Drunken Data.  This was the only reference to Jon Toigo and his blog. Apparently this thoughtless insult set Jon off because a week later he wrote a whole lot of overkill  in response.  Considering the effort he made, it doesn't seem fair to just ignore it all.    1.  I listen to customers, so do Chuck Hollis, Barry Burke, Mark Twomey, Val Bercovici, Alex McDonald, and most of the vendor bloggers.

In all seriousness – there’s a ton of going on at EMC focused on Hyper-V, and while I don’t want to help him too much, I do want to make the introduction I mentioned him earlier – Adrian Simays.   Adrian is “Mr Hyper-V” at EMC – and has now been gathering his strength to emerge publicly.   You can read up on EMC stuff focused on Hyper-V here:  Virtual Winfrastructure There’s a great post on all the technical docs on how to leverage Hyper-V on EMC kit which I’m grabbing the links. EMC Symmetrix with Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization EMC CLARiiON with Microsoft Hyper-V Server Best Practices: Using EMC Celerra IP Storage with Microsoft Hyper-V R2 over iSCSI EMC Replication Manager for Virtualized Environments EMC Blueprint:  Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Sharepoint Server Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Sharepoint Server with Hyper-V EMC Networker: Complete Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Proven Solution: EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V using iSCSI Reference Architecture: EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V using iSCSI Reference Architecture: EMC Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server on EMC Unified Storage Platforms Reference Architecture: EMC Virtual Architecture for Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 Enabled by EMC CX and Hyper-V Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross-Site Virtual Environment Enabled by EMC CX, RecoverPoint and Microsoft Hyper-V BTW – if you’re a Microsoft IT user interested at the intersection with infrastructure, another great technical blog to follow (IMO) is Brian’s Power Windows Blog .   Brian, for an example recently posted on all the cool sessions at EMC World that touch on Microsoft technologies. Now, of course, we have MORE of all of this on VMware – a lot more!   It’s just proportionally more based on how often our customers ask for VMware-specific content and integration rather than Hyper-V, but now I’m just smack-talkin’…   Adrian, it’s on  

Curtis Chan called me Friday to nudge me to write something about ProStor, the guys who have made arrays out of removable laptop hard disks. They had sent me an external USB-connected unit and one hardened disk cartridge (about the size of a pack of cigarettes) just before Christmas and I promised to put it

"Nothing good is easy ; nothing easy is good". I don't remember who said that originally, but that thought has always stuck in my head. And as I work with more organizations who have started down a private cloud road (or something very similar), I'm beginning to see repeatable patterns emerge

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Good Day….

New for 2010:  3PAR'VTAR.   This dude is definitely in tune with his chunklets!

The question is very simple: are you going to be dragged by the business people in your organization to introduce SaaS solutions into your IT management environment, or are you going to lead your organization to it?

I was talking to a co-worker about vendor lock-in and what is the easiest way to ditch one vendor in favor of another.

The news is here .  Get a more in-depth view of Policy Advisor here . 3PAR customers have used Dynamic Optimization to re-balance storage volumes across multiple tiers of storage since 2005.  Our Policy Advisor software utility helps them make greater use of Dynamic Optimization by analyzing volume data layouts in their 3PAR arrays and generating the commands to move volumes to more appropriate storage resources. Customers can choose to run those commands as a batch process or enter them manually.