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		<title>VMware Thin Disks on EMC Virtual Provisioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even before I left VMware for EMC I was being asked to comment on &#8220;thin on thin&#8221;: the use of VMware thin VMDKs on virtually/thin provisioned storage.  As a VMware employee I recommended VMware&#8217;s thin provisioning but referred to storage vendors for their own best practices. Now, as a member of the storage vendor community, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VCAP Study Group in Asia in February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past couple of years the industry recognized that a single VMware certification&#8211;the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) &#8211;was not sufficient to encompass the wide range of competencies customers&#8217; VMware teams require. The introduction of the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) recognized the pinnacle of VMware design knowledge. But a wide chasm remained between VCP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2012/01/19/vcap-study-group-in-asia-in-february/</link>
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		<title>SIOC Alarm FAQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s post I want to update and amplify thoughts from an old post on Storage IO Control (SIOC).  VMware customers that are using SIOC may sometimes see the following vCenter alarm: Non-VI workload detected on the datastore Or you may see the following warning in the vSphere client: An external I/O activity is detected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2012/01/10/sioc-alarm-faq/</link>
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		<title>SRM Survey Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About six weeks ago I announced a survey to measure the value of VMware&#8217;s Site Recovery Manager.  Thirty-seven respondents offered their thoughts on how SRM has changed their disaster recovery process.  The results are not surprising; I already knew customers love SRM.  But they are a stark reminder of the immeasurable value of this product. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/12/20/srm-survey-results/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was enjoying fine food and drink with friends when I uttered something I immediately regretted: &#8220;I do not feel Microsoft is any longer relevant in the enterprise.&#8221; There are a couple of things that later made me rue my statement.  First, any IT company with revenues measured in tens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/12/07/microsoft-2-0/</link>
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		<title>Private Data Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year it becomes more obvious that we are moving to a world based on software-as-a-service. That our high processing desktop and notebook computers will go to the trash heap seems to be a forgone conclusion. Steve Jobs calls this the &#8220;post PC era&#8221;. Paul Maritz and Steve Herrod followed suit at VMworld 2011 by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/11/28/private-data-search/</link>
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		<title>Flash Or SSD? (or: Why Interfaces Matter)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my three part series on flash I interchangeably used the terms &#8220;flash&#8221; and &#8220;SSD&#8221;.  In a recent article on this subject, Steven Foskett on IBM&#8217;s Storage Community successfully convinced me that I should stop using these terms interchangeably.  He then suggested that flash would persevere while SSD would not.  I disagree. First, let me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/11/22/flash-or-ssd-or-why-interfaces-matter/</link>
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		<title>The Flash Storage Revolution: Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this final installment of the series, I will provide some detail behind flash storage sizing.  My previous entry contained an analytical and theoretical approach to sizing flash in today&#8217;s storage.  When I first studied the ideas I introduced in that post, I thought the flash sizing exercise was hopeless.  After all, how are customers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/11/17/the-flash-storage-revolution-part-iii/</link>
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		<title>Virtualization Week in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we delivered EMC&#8217;s &#8220;Virtualization Week&#8221;, which was held at the EMC Executive Briefing Center in Singapore. Each quarter we run this event for EMC and VMware customers throughout Asia Pacific. While many of the customers visited to hear the joint EMC and VMware vision, we also hosted VMware&#8217;s customers that choose EMC&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/11/15/virtualization-week-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>The Value of SRM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Customers love VMware&#8217;s Site Recovery Manager (SRM).  It automates, simplifies, and documents disaster recovery.  It can eliminate downtime during disaster recovery (DR) tests.  And it increases customer confidence in their DR plan.  SRM is great. In my first year and a half in Asia I have seen that this region (Australia and New Zealand excepted!) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vpivot.com/2011/11/03/the-value-of-srm/</link>
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