08 Nov 2011
What can you buy for €6,000?
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21 Okt 2011
VMworld Europe goes fourth
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13 Okt 2011
Innovation – anywhere or everywhere ?
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29 Aug 2011
Flash & your Cloud Storage strategy
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26 Jul 2011
Just build it – why waste time on why!
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12 Jul 2011
VMware – your vCatalyst just got bigger
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NetApp and VMware are global alliance partners - innovating together for more than 10 years. I have had the pleasure of working with the EMEA VMware team for more than 5...
14 Jun 2011
Clouds built on NetApp storage
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“I went to the Cinema tomorrow. I bought a front seat at the back. I lady gave me a banana. I ate it and gave her it back” One of my Grandad’s favourite rhymes. And it m...
17 Mai 2011
Find time for Cloud: Fast Track & FlexPod
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Yesterday, NetApp and Cisco joined Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program with a validated design for private clouds. And today we announced continued success with...
26 Apr 2011
Cloud computing – technology is the easy part.
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Cloud computing is an exciting concept for users of IT. My view is that the adoption of cloud computing is about people, not technology.....
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25 Mär 2011
Lotus Renault GP – my favourite customer
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NetApp has many thousands of customers. I have had the pleasure of meeting a decent number of them. So is it wrong to admit I have a favourite ? Well I do. It’s Formula ...
17 Mär 2011
Cloud adverts everywhere – what’s going on ?
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I spend too much time in airports. And if you’ve been through an airport recently, you can’t help notice that IT companies are spending their money advertising one thing...
08 Mär 2011
Do you use Protection ?
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What’s the difference between lawyers, politicians and IT ? The start of a joke ? You can think of a better punch line, but the answer I was looking for – they each thin...
18 Feb 2011
Is your IT department the sharing type ?
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Every company has an IT department. There’s even a TV series about one. And all IT departments are the same. Right ? Erm, NO ! This month I met lots. In fact, IT folk fr...
02 Feb 2011
Me, Sven, Clive, Tim & 4900 other blokes at Cisco Live Europe
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Cisco has featured throughout my career. As the enemy at Nortel (they won by the way). Then as a NetApp storage network (SAN) partner. And now as a strategic NetApp part...
28 Jan 2011
Oracle & NetApp. Some things just go well together.
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Some things just go well together. Like Fish and Chips. Germans and Beer. England and good weather. No marketing will change that. In IT, applications (or ‘Apps’ as we n...
13 Jan 2011
Predictions for 2006 & 2011. Happy New Year !
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I’m a bloggerist ! How did that happen ? Anyway, it appears that we bloggers are supposed to write a list of predictions for the coming year. Given I’m new to this I spe...
11 Jan 2011
IT is confusing to everyone!
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Work in IT? Interested in IT? Admit it – you were confused in 2010 and you’re going to be even more confused in 2011! I work for a large IT company - NetApp. I live in E...