Tag Archives: EMC

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 … Continue reading

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2012: The GeekFluent Year in Review

I’ve been thinking that I really need to be taking a more deliberate approach to this blog and make sure I’m posting more regularly.  Looking around, all of the big names in blogging seem to put out a year-end post.  … Continue reading

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December EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. With it past, we head into the home stretch of 2012, and with that we have the last webcasts of the year. One of the great things about this series is that every … Continue reading

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EMC Elect – A Founder is Me

Today, EMC announced a community-driven recognition program called EMC Elect.  I’m very proud to follow that with the announcement that I have been one of ten people selected as Founding Members of this new program. The idea of the program … Continue reading

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Achievement Unlocked: Certification Quest

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have caught some of the story of chasing certifications in October and how the best-laid plans meant nothing to Hurricane Sandy. Despite the obstacles thrown in our way, my teammates and I … Continue reading

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November EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

While I’ve been occupied with Certification Quest (blog post coming on that), October has come to an end and November is just about to start, bringing with it a new set of webcasts. The webcasts we have coming up for … Continue reading

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October EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

Somehow, it became October without my noticing it. With a new month comes a new set of webcasts. The webcasts we have coming up for October cover some great topics. One of the great things about this series is that … Continue reading

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Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1

I’ve already done a write-up of the VAAI-NAS features in vSphere 5.0, but one of the three VAAI NAS primitives has expanded functionality in vSphere 5.1. In vSphere 5.1, the NFS File Cloning primitive is expanded to allow array-based snapshots … Continue reading

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EMC Updates VFCache – Now Supports VMware vMotion

When EMC first announced VFCache back in February, I was one of the first folks to write about using VFCache in a VMware enviroment.  At launch, the short answer was: “You can, but there are some limits that might cause … Continue reading

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September EMC Solutions for VMware Webcasts

I’m a little late getting this posted. I’m going to use having been busy at VMworld 2012 last week as an excuse. (I’m not going to claim it’s a good excuse — it’s just the one I’m sticking with.) The … Continue reading

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