VAAI – is it a Mirage?

VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI), also known as hardware acceleration or hardware offload APIs, are a set of APIs enabling interaction between VMware vSphere…

A Salute to a Worthy Winner of the Turing Award

The Turing Award given by the Association for Computing Machinery has been called “The Nobel Prize of Computing”. The stipulation says the award should be given to…

SDDC Rediscovering its Magnificence

SDDC the abbreviation of Software defined data centre has become the latest jargon used by anybody and everybody in the Storage, Virtualization and cloud technology domain. It…

VMware Virtual SAN: The Next Opportunity?

Software defined Storage (SDS) is the next logical step in the evolution of not just storage, but also virtualization technology. VMware has made its move by introducing…

A Look Back At The Year That Was For Enterprise Storage

I’ve done some crystal ball gazing in my first couple of blogs – looking forward at what is likely to come about in those technology spaces we…