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A step-by-step approach to moving from static to dynamic utility storage to support virtualization and cloud computing

They say that cloud is a journey. For most, it’s one fraught with challenges, obstacles, and, yes, grief, particularly when it comes to storage.

Having spent nine years managing a service provider data center, I can attest to the emotional attachment we have with infrastructure.  The job often forces us to spend more time with machines than our family. 

With that in mind, I thought it could be fun to examine the parallelisms in the death of an old IT model as we move to cloud… Taking some liberties with the Kübler-Ross model for the five stages of grief, let’s find our happy place.

I've had a couple of blog posts in the last month pointing to what our blogger guests had to say about our Converged Storage HP Tech Day. The reason for today's post is to highlight what I think will be the last few posts from our bloggers - and they're pretty good so I wanted to call them out. 

Last week while I was having a great time at Margaritaville with the VMware community, Janice had a blog post talking about the new 16Gb FC HBA's that were announced.  I wanted to highlight Janice's posts (which includes links to some other great resources) today. 

Don't blink now - HP just went racing by with 16Gb FC HBA's

Posted February 13th on Emulex.com blog by Janice Owens

Late last week - actually was most of the world's weekend - I had a blog post talking about some new P6000 EVA Performance Advisor demo videos. Today, I have the final two videos in the series that I wanted to share with you.  Here are the videos: