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Alliances, Performance, and Solutions Team

By Calvin Zito We had a group in HP StorageWorks called Customer Focused Testing (CFT) team. They were always a source of really good technical white papers that talked about implementing application solutions with our storage arrays. An example of a...

Published 02-09-2010 3:44 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, Oracle, storage, SAP, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix

Video summary of HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy I was trolling a bit this morning on the Internet and came across a YouTube video interview with our own Bill Chambers. Bill came to HP from LeftHand Networks and was interviewed by Virtual Strategy Magazine during the event...

Published 11-24-2009 3:40 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, LeftHand SAN

HP StorageWorks at Microsoft Tech Ed

By Ian Selway, Worldwide StorageWorks Solution Manager Heading off to the airport at San Francisco to begin my trip to Microsoft TechEd in Berlin..... 20 years after the fall of wall and right after this week's superb U2 concert , it'll be interesting...

Published 11-06-2009 6:04 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage

Converged Infrastructure: Block based storage virtualization podcast

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy This is the third in a series of three podcasts focusing on our HP Converged Infrastructure announcement. In part 1, I spoke with Sr. VP and GM of HP StorageWorks Dave Roberson . In part 2, I talked to the former CEO of IBRIX...

Published 11-06-2009 5:55 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, EVA, storage, SVSP, podcast, Converged Infrastructure

Converged Infrastructure: the new X9000 podcast

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy On Wednesday, I did the first of three podcasts talking about our HP Converged Infrastructure announcement. If you missed that one, I highly recommend that you listen to it . My guest was with our Senior VP and General Manager...

Published 11-06-2009 8:18 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: Scalable NAS, PolyServe, virtualization, storage, IBRIX, podcast, Converged Infrastructure

What will EVA customers benefit from new NetApp program be? Zip! Zilch

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy In my last post , I included a couple of summary videos from our recent HP StorageWorks Tech Day. The hands-on lab really stirred up a few folks over at NetApp. The week after our Tech Day, they did a WebEx session to try...

Published 11-02-2009 3:51 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, EVA, storage, SVSP

StorageWorks Tech Day - in their words so far....

By Calvin Zito I've been home from our HP StorageWorks Tech Day for less than 24 hours and I still am floating on a cloud (No Foskett - not that kind of cloud!). When we first started talking about doing it a couple of months ago, I never would have...

Published 10-01-2009 5:25 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, HPTechDay

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

My very late VMworld summary

By Calvin Zito Ok, I know VMworld ended 11 days ago but last week was more than a little busy with Labor Day and playing catch up. I also had a bit of an excuse for holding off because I knew the video that I have at the end of this post was coming. So...

Published 09-14-2009 8:21 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage

VMworld special podcast #2

By Calvin Zito While at VMworld in San Francisco, I had a chance to talk to Paul Jones. Paul is our VMware Global Alliance Manager in HP's Enterprise Systems and Networking team. We talked briefly about our impressions of VMworld. Tweet this!

Published 09-04-2009 4:23 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, podcast

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

Off to the races at VMworld

By Calvin Zito I don't recommend waiting until 10 PM the night before to pack for a 5:30 AM flight the next morning. I hit a few speed bumps trying to get everything I needed together for VMworld and was up until 1:30 AM and got up at 3:30 AM to head...

Published 08-31-2009 5:54 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage

Data Protector for VMware podcast

By Calvin Zito An often overlooked gem in HP's storage portfolio is HP Data Protector. I sat down to talk data protection of virtual machines and more specifically of VMware with Billy Naples, the HP Data Protector Product Marketing Manager. Billy...

Published 08-28-2009 5:47 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: backup, virtualization, storage, 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

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