Raise Your Hand If You’ve Virtualized 120,000 Exchange 2010 Mailboxes.

Chris Devine, member of EMC’s Proven Solutions engineering team, setup this massive test case in order to understand Exchange 2010 configurations at scale and to gauge the impact/overhead of virtual provisioning with a VMAX (hint: minimal to none). I call these guys our solution builders. Here he talks with me about the details behind the [...]

Clarifying Thin Provisioning for Exchange 2010

I talked with Exchange Certified Master Dustin Smith (EMC) who clarifies the role of storage thin provisioning and how it compares to an operational approach that some companies are ALSO calling thin provisioning.   Recorded at Microsoft TechEd 2010 in New Orleans.

Large Scale Hyper-V Clusters, Cluster Enabler, and VPLEX

I talked with Partner Engineering Manager Txomin Barturen about how to get ultimate scale from Hyper-V with Cluster Shared Volumes. He also spoke about his session on multi-site Windows Clustering Configurations and EMC’s Cluster Enablers which plug directly into Microsoft’s clustering framework and well as EMC’s storage virtualization and transportation appliance, VPLEX. Recorded at Microsoft [...]

EMC – First and Only Exchange 2010 Synchronous Replication Solution

Boris Voronin from EMC’s Proven Solutions team talked with me about how EMC is the first company to leverage Microsoft’s Synchronous Replication API for Exchange 2010. This product Replication Enabler for Exchange 2010 plugs into the DAG framework but replaces native log-shipping with synchronous block-based replication. Very cool for customers who have a need for [...]

Business Intelligence for Storage

Recorded at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, I talked with Bill Ryan from EMC Consulting about using Microsoft’s BI Stack to understand your storage infrastructure – a very cool offering available today from EMC’s services arm. Find out more details here: http://www.emc.com/services/consulting/application/offerings/business-intelligence-for-storage.htm

Thoughts after Microsoft TechEd 2010 New Orleans

Like a storm, TechEd 2010 came and went pretty quickly and brought with it a thundering roar of activity from all of the vendors and partners and gurus all fighting to highlight their message through the creative use of Twitter, $2 bills, Ducati’s, Treasure Chests, and attractive people.  Here’s a nice collection of photo’s from [...]

EMC at Microsoft TechEd 2010 in New Orleans

We have a great group of people from supporting our presence at TechEd in New Orleans. Here’s a sneak preview of our booth. EMC is participating in 3 sessions: VIR207: Advanced Storage Infrastructure Best Practices to Enable Ultimate Hyper-V Scalability (Wednesday June 9th, 11:45AM-1:00PM, Room 279) DEV211: Microsoft Professional, Master and Architect Level Certifications: Notes [...]