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I have recently been invited to present in a VMware User Group (VMUG), which I quickly answered with a big and resounding Yes! I really love to present and touch base with customers as that helps me to keep it real, instead of being a lab rat type of engineer/architect. Mostly I look forward to present and talk about new VMware endeavors in the EUC space, things such as MDM, MAM, the new HTML5 c...

The storage technologies and vendors available on the market today have definitely evolved from simple spindle RAID groups and one tier caching mechanism available from 5 years ago. The options are so many that it’s not only difficult to understand and grasp all different technologies, but almost impossible to compare them side-by-side. Flash (SLC and MLC) is apparently being used in abundance...

Since my article on ‘Storage Optimization with Atlantis‘ on April 3rd, I’ve been in contact with Atlantis and got some additional information I would like to share with you. First of all, in the article it says the following: Another point of interest is, does Atlantis live up to the promises made regarding the alleged [...] by Erik Scholten

In our quest for native PC performance in a VDI solution we are always looking for better, faster and simpler storage solutions. To improve storage performance several vendors have introduced different solutions like controller cache, SSD disks, flash memory. Last week I received an e-mail from a colleague regarding ‘Atlantis Computing Uses Diskless VDI Architecture [...] by Erik Scholten ...

For the past weeks I have been extensively testing and validating ILIO technology developed by Atlantis Computing. I have briefly mentioned ILIO in my articles How to offload Write IOs from VDI deployments and EMC FAST Cache effectiveness with VDI. Atlantis Computing is a privately held startup. ILIO is a storage virtual appliance with remarkable capabilities, allowing administrators to boost st...