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TechHead TechHead - VMware, Microsoft, EMC, HP - IT Technology news, how to & useful information Just a quick post to share a rather cool video with you that covers an area that I have been involved with in the past year or so here at EMC … the EMC vLabs.  Fellow vGeek and all round top guy (also my boss, though in all honesty that doesn’t change my opinion of him) Chad Sakac takes you ...

Just a quick post to share a rather cool video with you that covers an area that I have been involved with in the past year or so here at EMC … the EMC vLabs.  Fellow vGeek and all round top guy (also my boss, though in all honesty that doesn’t change my opinion of him) Chad Sakac takes you through a demonstration of the EMC vLab environment, which provides on-demand access to an extensive...

There appears be a number of popular misconceptions around the feasibility of virtualizing Oracle.  I’ve spent the past week at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 and from talking with attendees there seems to be a resistance by some in running Oracle virtualized due to perceived performance, increased cost and support implications.  As many of you know there are many benefits, such as financi...

EMC Webcasts are in full effect! Over 20,000 viewers have registered for these webcasts, why haven’t you!? Every Thursday we cover the hottest topics hitting the virtualization scene, and this month isn’t going to be any different! We have five hot topics for you this month, everything from Virtualizing Oracle to Delivering IT as a Service! And for a special treat we have Chad’...

Earlier this year as part of the Boston based Gestalt IT Tech Field day we visited the EMC Mothership at Hopkinton.  Whilst here we had a number of informative sessions with one in particular taken by EMC’s Vice President of the VMware Technology Alliance and self confessed geek,  Chad Sakac.  The topic of the session was around Chad’s view on ‘Storage Efficiency’ and p...