Month: January 2013
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Use Your Windows Laptop to Make a Bootable USB Key for vSphere Installations
Have you ever wanted to install ESXi on a host that doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive? Maybe you also don’t have a TFTP server, so installing over the network isn’t an option either. I came across this situation at a customer site recently. It turns out the easiest solution in this situation is to convert…
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EMC Announces Joint Isilon/Syncplicity File Sharing Solution
Today, EMC announced the availability of a joint solution for Syncplicity online file sharing with Isilon scale-out storage. OK, you’re thinking, what does that mean? What it means is the easy availability of enterprise-class private cloud shared storage. Yes, private cloud shared storage. It’s a subtle — yet very significant — distinction. To explain what…
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Most-Read GeekFluent Posts of 2012
Admittedly, metrics aren’t all that exciting in and of themselves — it’s the information and the trends behind them, driving the numbers that are interesting. This, in a single sentence, is the idea behind the Big Data phenomenon. That said, the data I have to present here is very near and dear to me. It’s…
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January EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts
The New Year is here, and that means it’s time for another year’s worth of weekly webcasts from EMC. I’m curious to see how it goes. For the third year in a row, the same topic, “The Value of VMware Integration”, has started off the year. I gave that presentation in both 2011 and 2012.…