Capitol Region Virtual Technology Users Group (CRVTUG)

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Just a quick note that I am excited to be a part of the first CRVTUG meeting on July 30th of this year. I will be presenting the EMC ViPR solution for abstracting the storage layer of the SDDC and automating the process. The demo and presentation will be short (about 30 mins) but I will also be at the EMC table at the event.  I really hope to see everyone there to get your ticket go to CRVTUG.com

The goal for the CR VTUG is to allow for all virtualization technologies to be represented and for more technical conversations to be facilitated.  So Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and Openstack admins in the DC Metro area should really make an effort to make it. You never know the users group may be the place where you find the answer to a nagging problem or meet a future co-worker. If nothing else it will provide a community that will try to help and understands the problems that you face.

Let’s make this a truly technical group and not a sales forum. I am stoked to be a part of it.

Virtualize all the things means storage too

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Remember when we started virtualizing servers? The problem we were solving was under-utilization and hardware abstraction. I guess I could go back to the first GUI OS’ and the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) but let’s stay on topic for once.

So we virtualized servers in order to get better utilization, reduce operating costs, add redundancy and allow for mobility across vendor platforms. Today we are seeing storage vendors try and tackle the same problem. EMC is doing this with ViPR, NetApp has vFiler, HP has StoreServ, there are also smaller startups like Pernix and Atlantis trying to do similar things. Even VMware to some extent is trying to virtualize the storage layer with VSAN.

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