Over the last month or so I’ve had two invites to participate in vendor events abroad. The first was an invite to the Gestalt IT tech day in San Francisco, the second was an invite to the EMC EMEA Customer Council event in Prague. Now as much as I would love to go to everything […]

This weekend I finally had the chance to catchup on some of the new storage features released as part of vSphere 4.0, there are quite a few changes to cover, some of them quite exciting.

I’ve been meaning to write about the Citrix Branch Repeater product for some time now, so a timely reminder to actually do this was the release of Citrix Branch Repeater V5.5. Earlier this year I attended a branch office infrastructure event run by Microsoft and Citrix in Edinburgh. This was the first time I had heard about this product, I luckily had the chance to follow up my interest at the recent Citrix iForum in Edinburgh.

I’ve recently been evaluating some of the new features in VMware vSphere to see what use they would be to my current employer. One of the areas that I touched upon in my “what’s new in vSphere Storage” blog post was thin provisioning. I wanted to come back and cover this particular topic in more detail as it’s a key feature and it’s available throughout all versions of vSphere so I’m sure everyone will be interested in it.