Plain Virtualization

Back in the days of VMware, I was fortunate to talk to many customers and involved in numerous discussion on helping them from on premise to private cloud, hybrid cloud to public cloud and MultiCloud to today, Intelligence running in the cloud. Many thought that might change when I move on to my next career. In fact, I carry on that discussion with my customers today the same way I did in the past. That was also one great reason I joint NetApp. Let me show you where this happens: Reference link As changes of IT evolved, the amount of data customer have to collect, manage, protect and secure is way more than before. More so around complexity and managing the amount of data threats. In 1996, NetApp introduced ONTAP to solve the issue with local data siloes with NAS to help customer manage the large amount of data in files and block. When virtualization take place, NetApp supported a wide range of solutions such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc. helping customers manage that data growth. Even...

We heard much of Sovereign Cloud. This term is very new to many and many are also new to the term at the same time like myself. The word, "Sovereign" can means many things from different people just like when the term, "Hybrid Cloud" was introduced. Let take a look what Sovereign Cloud really meant and what it is meant to address and understand some of the things to look out for. Sovereignty come with many variable. It can be from hosting location, to the operational of things and also the owning of assets. One of the key sovereignty, is about data.  To start with, VMware release an article on data sovereignty. Do check it out to understand more.  In summary, data sovereignty dictates where the data will reside. Whether is it been transported to other places such as replication, and so forth. Should it stays within the land of a countries, if so, replication will be within data centers (AZs) within the counties instead of out. Though one may be able to achieve data...

If you have heard and wondering its almost here.  VCP for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). As the cloud has been now popularize, whether it is private and public cloud we need to have some ways qualify these people just like for desktop VCP5-DT. Requirement will be the same as desktop, you would need to be a VCP5 first.  You can check out Eric Sloof's post . Sign up for to be informed once VCP5-IaaS goes GA here . For more information on all the certification you can refer to certification site . Update 31th May 2013 VCP-IaaS exam is now certified as VCP-Cloud.  There is some confusion so here I share explain as below. If you are a VCP5-DV, you would need to just take VCP-IaaS which contain 85 questions to be VCP-Cloud.  This exam will require per-authorization and a check if you are VCP5-DV will be done before granting you to even see this exam to be booked. What if you are not VCP5-DV but a VCP4-DV?  You can also be VCP-Cloud.  What ...