Category Archives: conferences

It’s that time again – Dell Storage Trivia Tuesday

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It’s that time of year again! Last year we had a trivia contest that we ran on Twitter for your chance at a fabulous Dell Storage Forum t-shirt. Well the contest is returning for #DellSF12 Boston! Here’s how to play: 1. … Continue reading

Dell Storage at the Toronto VMUG user conference

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Today I’m at the Toronto VMUG user conference along with some of the sales and partner folks from Dell Storage here in Canada. I’m taking an afternoon break to charge up devices and post on what I’ve seen so far. First … Continue reading

Dell Storage Forum London – the big fat review post

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I’ve held off for two weeks on writing the big fat review post for Dell Storage Forum London becuase I keep seeing more content posted! So if I miss something you posted, or if you add something after I publish, … Continue reading

NEVMUG Winter Gala

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I traveled to the NEVMUG Winter Gala last week. It was in Boston at Gillette Stadium, home of the 2012 Superbowl Champion New England Patriots. All of the VMUG user conferences claim to be the biggest, but in my experience the NEVMUG … Continue reading

Dell Storage Forum 2012 London – the day before

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Today is the first day of the Dell Storage Forum in London. Yesterday lots of people started to arrive, and I was amazed at how many people wrote pre-show blog posts: vInfrastructure: Italian | English IT from Planet Zorg Let … Continue reading

Time to pack your bags for the Dell Storage Forum in London!

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Watching this recap video of the Dell Storage Forum in Orlando made me a little nostalgic. So, Just like I did for the inaugural Dell Storage Forum in Orlando last year, I thought I’d write a post with helpful hints … Continue reading

Dell Storage Community at VMworld Copenhagen

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The Dell Storage crew was at VMworld Copenhagen last week. I would have done my normal live blogging and tweeting, but I had technical issues. So I did things the old-fashioned way….I used a pen and the notebook included in … Continue reading

Symantec Vision Session: Winning with Dell Storage + Symantec

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Note: This is my (almost) live blog from yesterday’s session with Andrew Corcoran & Ed Casmer. Traditional dcs are too rigid for evolving biz needs IT has too spend most of the $$ supporting existing infrastructure, not expanding to new … Continue reading

Symantec Vision Session: Dell Storage and Symantec enable the full benefits of server virtualization

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Note: these are my (mostly) unedited session notes. The session focused on backup best practices for virtualization. Other live blogs from VISION can be found here and here. 70-90% of backups are not restorable Backup windows are huge Virtualization makes … Continue reading

Symantec Vision Session – Dell & Symantec: E-mail and file archive solutions

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Note: these are my (mostly) unedited session notes. This session focused on Dell DX object storage with Symantec Enterprise Vault Data starts when the data is created. Need bigger backups, need more primary storage. Storing is not the hard thing, … Continue reading