Introducing EMC SharePoint Guru, James Baldwin

I think it’s time to spread the word about my colleague James Baldwin – an engineer in EMC’s Global Solutions Group – who I was able to see in “full tech mode” at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas.  You see, most of us storage geeks have it – one sec we’re joking around, then we  [...]

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SharePoint Conference – Vegas! Next Week!

At this year’s conference, Microsoft will be looking towards the future with a broad array of deep content centered on the next version of SharePoint, SharePoint Server 2010 and at the same time be firmly planted in the present, sharing real world experience and guidance to help you maximize your investment in SharePoint Server [...]

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EMC and Private Clouds – From Vapor to Reality

We’ve heard folks talking a lot about Private Clouds lately.
And today, EMC announced real services and solutions that add real value in real customer environments.  And we have both strategic and tactical services which aim to help customers get it done right the first time with less risk.
We’ve taken the best practices from early adopter [...]

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Private Clouds are Rolling In

and application owners are running scared.
But they shouldn’t be afraid of virtualized Tier 1 applications anymore.   Why?
1. It’s supported by Microsoft and OEM partners.
2. There’s plenty of horsepower in the newest hypervisors from VMware and Microsoft.
3. You can get better SLA’s in a virtual world at a lower cost.
More information and a free [...]

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Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS and iSCSI Storage Array

I hear stories all the time about people who became celebrities and how often people from their past come out of the woodwork to pester them.
That’s how I feel about Iomega!
They have come FAR beyond those annoying zip drives that I’d dismissed in my head and are delivering the most advanced storage arrays in [...]

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Virtualizing Microsoft Applications with vSphere 4

I’ve got an EMC Live presentation set to go on July 30th.  It’s part of a Summer Series called “Virtualize Everything!”
My session is titled:
Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint with VMware vSphere
Thursday, July 30, 2009
8 am PT / 11 am ET
My main two points will be this:

Microsoft application owners should no longer be afraid to [...]

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The Hyper-V Blue Screen Video Drama

Act 1.  The Posting
VMware employee posts a video of a bluescreen in a Hyper-V VM which takes down the whole physical box.
It was available here.
Act 2.  The Revolt
The VM community rises up and demand facts.  Read comments here.
Microsoft gives some facts.
Video largely discredited as FUD without much detail.
Scott Drummunds apologizes.
Microsoft piles on: here, here [...]

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Best Practices for Backing Up SharePoint 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is hard to backup.
You have a lot of moving parts:

Multiple servers with different roles
Various SQL databases (content, SSP, config etc)
Index FS
IIS customizations, web parts
Logical architecture doesn’t translate into physical components

Although Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 does offer some native tools for backup and recovery (central admin, stsadm, recycle bin), each [...]

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Free SharePoint Webinar: From Chaos to Success

A Must See for your SharePoint peeps

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Prove It!

Every day a company is fooled by false advertising and claims that have no basis in reality.   Although EMC gets a fair share of knocks for being rough on our competitors, we’re equally rough on the applications and hardware platforms that we have to support.
Most everyone knows about EMC’s E-Lab
EMC E-Lab conducts the industry’s most [...]

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