For a long time, VVols have appeared to be a solution looking for a problem. For the uninitiated, we will first give a brief outline of what VVols are and identify the problem that they purport to solve. On the face of it, it is nothing more than the ability to do one VM to …
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Tech Field Day briefing with Primary Data. During the VMworld 2015 Conference in San Francisco there was another event, Tech Field Day Extra, which was going on at the same time during the conference. I was one of the panelist for Tech Field Day Extra and had the opportunity to be a part of the briefing from a company called Primary Data to showcase DataSphere. DataSphere is a dynamic, objectives-driven data mobility virtualization platform across different storage types and tiers.
Every VMworld conference is different, with a different tone and pace to it. At this year’s VMworld US, it felt like everything was evolutionary and very little was revolutionary. Icing that cake, VMware broke the decade-old trend of new vSphere announcements. Sure, the keynotes mentioned the next version, mostly by talking about some of the …
