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EMC WORLD – Day 3 – The Casino, Legos and EMC Elect

Sorry for Day 3 being late.  Too bad it isn’t because I won so much money gambling that I’m driving my new Ferrari back to Raleigh.  Lots of stuff did go down on Wednesday at EMCworld and the night before. The first … Continue reading

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EMC WORLD 2013 – Day 2 – No Tigers, Just Awards and Superheros

Hello!!!!  I did not end up stealing Mike Tyson’s tiger last night… unfortunately. I did however witness my company Varrow winning…for the 5 consecutive year the EMC Services Quality Award. Pictured are a bunch of folks from Varrow and I … Continue reading

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EMC World 2013 – Day 1 – Vegas!

I have arrived in Vegas for EMC’s annual conference.  After fighting my way through Raleigh to Charlotte, and a “Taxi Line from Hell” at LAS it is very good to be here. This is my first time in a few … Continue reading

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The Mechanic

Early last week my commuter car suffered a catastrophic failure in its ability to cool itself properly. This led to a bit of smoke coming out of the back of the car and left me stranded on the side of … Continue reading

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God Made an IT Worker

I know it’s been a couple weeks since the Super Bowl, but during halftime I saw that advertisement about farmers…you know the one…  It’s a very good ad.  Filled with emotion, triumph, hardship and otherwise really cool stuff. Then, I … Continue reading

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Barry Sanders beats Michael Schumacher: VMworld Call for Papers Voting 2012!

This year it is my honor to be able to submit to present at VMworld 2012.  Public voting is a great way for VMware to gauge what’s hot and what’s not and choose sessions that people would be attending during the … Continue reading

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EMC VNX Fast Cache and Application Performance ; It’s not all Pancakes and Banana Sandwiches.

The issue we face as storage professionals is always going to be the age old question. “What I/O demand or pattern exists in your application?” This is a question that should always be asked. Sometimes application owners just don’t know … Continue reading

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Varrow Madness Flashmob Video!

Shout out to Dance District for releasing this video from Varrow Madness a couple weeks back. We had a blast! Tweet

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VMAX, vSphere 5.x and Zombie Space Reclamation!

We have quite the group of customers that are currently using vSphere 5.x, VMAX and Fast VP. In previous versions of ESXi we saw some weirdness when it came to dead space reclamation, movement of data and general misbehaving in … Continue reading

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Madness, VMAX’s and a year’s gone by. Oh My.

It has been a year since the last time I posted about Varrow Madness back in 2011.  Since then quite a lot has changed in the form of my personal growth as an Engineer, growth of Varrow and all around … Continue reading

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