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My time with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI started in 2007.  We deployed VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager for a couple of test projects, including desktops for the help desk, and desktops with admin tools for certain groups within our IT organization.  This was before linked clones existed, and we had a hard time justifying the …

Read More about FlexPod and All-Flash FAS for VMware Horizon View

Whether we embrace it or not, IT Security organizations have become key players in our organizations over the years.  Sometimes they get a bad rap, they have to be come the enforces for various policies and compliance requirements our businesses must adhere to.  Audits can be met with enthusiasm or dread, but they aren’t going any place soon.  I think much …

Read More about The Sphere is Solid: vSphere Hardening, the Right Way

As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer.  Before I worked for NetApp, I was a  NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking.  You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer.  About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …

Read More about Clustered Data ONTAP, Laying a Foundation for a Virtual Data Center