Have you found yourself expecting more performance out of your host to find out that you have reached or exceeded the maximum amount of cycles for your physical server? Don’t feel bad it happens to many users due to lack...
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Read More »It's Monday morning at EMC World 2011 and EMC Chairman Joe Tucci opens the show with 10,000-plus in the audience. On stage with Tucci are big black boxes. What's wrong with this picture? EMC is no longer a company that...
Read More »VCE most closely resembles a nonprofit organization in that it is totally funded by capital and equity contributions from the four coalition members. All revenue from Vblock sales and services is turned over to the partners based on their product...
Read More »Yesterday, I heard a story about a CIO of one of the big NYC-based financial services firms explaining to his audience what was delaying further virtualization of the firm's application environment. The reason wasn't related to hardware or software. Read...
Read More »John Webster comments on the Pat Gelsinger, EMC's COO for Information Infrastructure Products, recently imparted vision for the future of IT. Pat spoke to a group of analysts gathered in Hopkinton, Mass last week. Gelsinger, who now manages some of the company's crown...
Read More »For a storage guy, last week's VMworld 2009 in San Francisco was a great show. All the familiar storage vendors were there and then some. Walking the show floor, I found them to be uniformly positive about traffic and the...
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