VMware shocked the world today, pre-announcing an important addition to the vStorage family of APIs found in their marquee vSphere family of products. The vStorage API for Token Ring Integration (VATRI) promises to ease the transition to converged networks featuring the emerging Fibre Channel over Token Ring (FCoTR) storage protocol. According to a recent report by The D’Plata Group, FCoTR is set dominate the enterprise storage market, and this integration is a confident step in that direction.
Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, March 25, 2011
This regular series features highlights from the week.
A special video message for NerdBlurt and #HDSday folks …
Evolving vs. Arriving
Cisco’s CleanAir vs the Atheros vendors
MetaGeek – Gestalt IT Wireless Tech Field Day
Hands on with the Metageek Wi-Spy DBx
Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, March 18, 2011
This regular series features highlights from the week.
Revolution Wi-Fi: Wireless Tech Field Day – Day 1 Quick Recap
NetApp and Engenio – Part 2 – A Hypothesis
Verizon Clarifies iPad Activation Fes – NYTimes.com
Back From the Pile: Interesting Links, March 11, 2011
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How Will Thunderbolt Affect Enterprise Storage?
Introducing Storage for Virtual Environments (From My Seminar)
How To Select a Virtual Server Backup Product?
I have been asked to write an article for TechTarget on the subject of selecting a virtual server backup product. I’d like to request input for this piece, and hope we can work together to produce a useful list of recommendations. Note that this isn’t a buyer’s guide like the DCIG effort: There will be no exhaustive lists of functions and features here. Instead, I’m writing about the options available in a more general sense.