Industry Confidential is satirical take on the IT industry in the imagined words of its renowned leaders.

vSphere Land just announced the results for their Top 25 Virtualization Bloggers vote. We’re impressed by the voting turnout, and can’t argue with the results: Every one is a great VMware resource! We’re especially pleased that Gestalt IT is so well-represented, with three of our authors making the list!

In March, Microsoft and Intel demonstrated that the combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Xeon 5500 could saturate a 10 GbE, pushing data throughput to wire speed. Today, they showed that this same combination can deliver an astonishing million I/O operations per second, too.

What’s the difference between naughty and nice when it comes to IT companies? Microsoft and EMC would definitely not have made the nice list over the last decade, but things are changing. With their competition taking den}s in the ongoing battles, Microsoft and EMC just don’t look so bad anymore.

“Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel” might sound like another “blah blah” marketing piece, but a little birdy tells me that this webcast will drop a bombshell about iSCSI performance.

Our first Tech Field Day event has come and gone, so our attention now turns to the future.

Thanks to everyone, the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day was an amazing success. In fact, we were so pleased with it that we are already planning Tech Field Day 2!

Get involved! Enter the contest, ask your questions, and follow along as we dive into our first Tech Field Day!

Domo arigato, data roboto, but what can you do? Do you know Data Robotics? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video!

Does Nirvanix smell like teen spirit or a state of enlightenment? Do you know Nirvanix? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video!