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Day 3 from TechEd

By Ian Selway, Worldwide HP StorageWorks Solution Manager I've just arrived back from London and I'm looking forward to Day 3 at Microsoft TechEd Berlin. Today we've supported Microsoft in their exhibition area, manning a partner kiosk and...

Published 11-12-2009 3:55 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: EVA, storage, LeftHand SAN, Microsoft

Day 1 from TechEd

By Ian Selway Day 1 at Microsoft TechEd EMEA and it's nearly 4 PM and the keynote is just about to start.... Which is a pity as I have to leave for the airport for a one day visit to the UK. The HP booth seemed to be far and away the busiest of all...

Published 11-10-2009 7:30 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: storage, LeftHand SAN

Better data protection for SMBs

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy On today's podcast, we talk about the HP Total Care announcement with HP StorageWorks Marketing Manager Chris McCall. The announcement today has three StorageWorks components: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions - new application...

Published 11-06-2009 9:08 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: DDS/DAT, disk-based backup, SMB, D2D Backup Systems, storage, LeftHand SAN, podcast

StorageWorks Tech Day starting now

By Calvin Zito If you don't follow me on Twitter , you may not be aware that we have a blogger event going in on Colorado Springs. We've brought a number of prominent storage and virtualization bloggers and over the next day and a half, have a...

Published 09-28-2009 4:43 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, EVA, storage, SVSP, unified storage, LeftHand SAN

HP LeftHand on the VMware Community Podcast

By Calvin Zito Last week, I was invited by John Troyer, the host of the VMware Community Podcast, to join his weekly podcast. I met John at VMworld at the beginning of the month and he needed a partner to be a guest on the podcast. The format is a Q&A...

Published 09-22-2009 8:15 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, LeftHand SAN

Special VMworld Podcast #1

By Calvin Zito During VMworld, I had a chance to talk with Adam Carter. Adam is our HP LeftHand Worldwide Product Manager and had just finished a session talking about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for remote and branch offices. I think you'll learn...

Published 09-03-2009 8:41 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, LeftHand SAN, podcast

VMworld is almost here!

By Calvin Zito Next week is VMworld in San Francisco - and as the number one partner of VMworld, HP will have a big presence at the event. Are you surprised to hear that HP is the number one partner? Here are a few "fun facts": We have more...

Published 08-27-2009 8:02 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, LeftHand SAN

New format - podcast

By Calvin Zito We wanted to try a new format with our blog so I'm happy to share this podcast with you today. We'll still post written blogs but we'll also mix in podcasts now and then. Today's discussion is with Lee Johns. Lee is the...

Published 08-18-2009 10:01 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: Scalable NAS, storage, LeftHand SAN, IBRIX, podcast

Usability Corner Interview with Chris McCall: Usability, Virtualization and SMB

By Mike Moroze, HP LeftHand Usability Corner I sat down with Chris McCall the manager of product marketing in our Unified Storage Division (a part of HP's StorageWorks Division) to discuss how small and medium sized companies are looking at virtualization...

Published 07-31-2009 7:38 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, SMB, storage, LeftHand SAN, usability corner

HP LeftHand usability corner: Let's get this party started!

By Mike Moroze, HP LeftHand Usability Lead I'm back! Sorry it's been a while but it's been pretty exciting as we (LeftHand) transition into HP StorageWorks. Look for more frequent posts going forward... So, this post is a bit different than...

Published 07-22-2009 9:58 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: storage, LeftHand SAN, usability corner

Box score for NetApp capacity calculator

By Calvin Zito So let me catch you up on what's happened here. We posted a blog recently talking about our HP Virtualization Bundles - bundles that include servers, storage, virtualization software, networking - essentially to make it very easy for...

Published 07-07-2009 9:34 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

HP LeftHand capacity

By Jasen Baker, Storage Architect I once heard that in communicating your opinion or differences, you should not use personal phrases, such as "you always", "you never", "every time", etc. These make broad, sweeping assumptions...

Published 06-30-2009 9:37 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

Making virtualization easy

By John Spiers (Former CTO and a founder of LeftHand Networks, now working for HP StorageWorks) If you haven't taken a look at the new HP virtualization bundles , you definitely should. The virtualization bundles provide an end-to-end solution that...

Published 06-22-2009 3:24 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

Day 3 (Wednesday) Videos from HP Tech Forum

By Calvin Zito Today at HP Technology Forum we had a couple of our HP StorageWorks exec interviewed by Shane Pitman Editor in Chief from Neowin.net with some help from Andy McCaskey from SDR News . The first one was with Brian Ignomirello, who I talked...

Published 06-18-2009 4:44 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: storage, HPTF, LeftHand SAN

The complexity of choice

Editor's note: The last three posts have focused on the storage consolidation for SMB announcement we did last week. We have posts from Carol Kemp, Lee Johns, and Charles Vallhonrat. Here are links to those posts if you want to read today's post...

Published 06-03-2009 2:44 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: consolidation, virtualization, SMB, storage, LeftHand SAN

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