SBIC – 2013 Trends Report – My Recommendations
The Security for Business Innovation Council recently published a Special Report:Information Security Shake-Up Disruptive Innovations to Test Security’s Mettle in 2013. The special report states that...
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View ArticleEMC ProSphere – Try, Learn & Download for Free
Following up on my recent post here which provides links to download your own free copy of the EMC VNX or Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA), here is another EMC product to download and try for...
View ArticleBalance Social Media and Business With EMC Elect
What if you could leverage your online social activities to more business benefits? Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook have really taken off in the past five years or so. What sets these...
View ArticleStaff Picks of the Week: The Top Blogs
Weekly Round-Up: 1/7 – 1/11 The first full week of the New Year has been a busy and productive one for the InFocus blogging team! In case you missed them, here are this week’s top blogs. The list...
View ArticleEven YET MORE free stuff! (This time OpenStack goodies for EMC customers)
Folks – a barrage of free goodies… This latest one is OpenStack related. Back in mid december, EMC joined the Openstack Foundation. Chuck did a post on it here that’s worth a read. I knew that there...
View ArticleFlick-through Friday!
What Can You Do?, by Gage Skidmore Sorry, that was the closest thing to alliteration I could get to for this blog. It’s Friday! How’s everyone doing after their first full week back? Other than the...
View ArticleArchitecting Your EMC Backup, Recovery, and Archiving Solutions Comes To the...
Look out Ruzzle and Fun Run! Your days at the top of the Free iPad app charts are numbered! There is a new app in town! Those of you who attended EMC World 2012 and visited the our booth were treated...
View ArticleWhat A Modern Factory Can Teach You About High-Performance IT
I'm not the only who's fascinated by high-performance IT organizations, and the transformations required to get them there. In my travels, I've encountered others who share my fascination. And -- each...
View ArticleHow Do TV Viewers Tweet? Depends.
Twitter is a veritable gold mine of real-time social data for advertisers, brands, and entertainment studios. The much-vaunted phenomena of the second screen — viewers browsing and posting to social...
View ArticleJava 7 vs. C++ Speed
I just found this interesting benchmark results: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.php The benchmark compares the same algorithm implemented in different programming languages....
View ArticleMy Bookstore
I had various people asking why I didn’t make it easier to buy my books via my website. Greg Schulz from StorageIOblog.com mentioned that he created an amazon store. So I took a peek at how he set it...
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View ArticlePercentage Based Admission Control gives lower VM restart guarantee?
Those who have configured vSphere HA have all seen that section where it asks if you want to use admission control or not. Of course if you decide you want to use it, and you should want this, then...
View ArticleFaking an SSD in your virtualized vSphere lab
I have written about this before (and so has William Lam, so all credits go to William), but I wanted to note down these commands for my own use as I find myself digging around often for the same...
View ArticleMy Bookstore
I had various people asking why I didn’t make it easier to buy my books via my website. Greg Schulz from StorageIOblog.com mentioned that he created an amazon store. So I took a peek at how he set it...
View ArticleESI Extends Support for Microsoft System Center
What can be better than a free tool such as EMC's Storage Integrator (ESI) software? The fact that it continues to get better! Last week, EMC released ESI version 2.1 which includes EMC management...
View ArticleSeven Tips For Using Third-Party Libraries
There are many good reasons to use code written by others in your application. This post describes some best practices to optimize your re-use experience. Library Use Gone Bad I recently discovered...
View ArticleWhat’s New for Exchange 2013 Storage?
What’s New for Exchange 2013 Storage? By: Brien M. Posey Many of Exchange Server 2013’s most noteworthy improvements are behind the scenes architectural improvements rather than new product features....
View ArticlePrioritization Matrix: Aligning Business and IT On The Big Data Journey
One key challenge to a successful Big Data journey is gaining consensus and alignment between the business and IT stakeholders in identifying the initial big data business use cases that 1) deliver...
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