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The Evolution of S2D

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Robert Corradini

The intention of this blog post series is to give some history of how Microsoft Storage Spaces evolved to what it has become known today as Storages Spaces Direct (S2D). This first blog post will go into the history of Storage Spaces. Over my next few posts, I will delve further into the recent Storage Spaces Direct release with Windows 2016 server. l will conclude my series with where I think it’s headed and how it compares to other HCI solutions in general. Now let’s go for a ride down memory lane….

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CPS Standard on Nutanix Released

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Robert Corradini

Fun and crazy days here at Nutanix. I’ve busy been fielding a lot of calls around our new offering, CPS Standard on Nutanix. Now if you don’t know what CPS is, it stands for Cloud Platform System.

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Microsoft Exchange Best Practices on Nutanix

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Robert Corradini

To continue on my last blog post on Exchange...

As I mentioned previously, I support SE’s from all over the world. And again today, I got asked what are the best practices for running Exchange on Nutanix. Funny enough, this question comes in quite often. Well, I am going to help resolve that. There’s a lot of great info out there, especially from my friend Josh Odgers, which has been leading the charge on this for a long time. Some of his posts can be controversial, but the truth is always there. He’s getting a point across.

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Microsoft Exchange Documentor 1.0 – Planning Tool

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Robert Corradini

Have you had a need to document your Exchange environment? Do you need a tool to help you plan your upgrade of Exchange? Is your documentation current for compliance purposes?

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Nutanix NOS 4.6 Released….

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Robert Corradini

On February 16, 2016, Nutanix announced the Acropolis NOS 4.6 release and last week was available for download. Along with many enhancements, I wanted to highlight several items, including some tech preview features.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud Series – Understanding the Stack, Who Manages What? – Part 2

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Robert Corradini

In today’s IT, there are a lot of discussions about different terms like PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS. So what do all of these cloud acronyms mean?

I’m going to give you the simplest explanation I can, to help you understand the difference between SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud Series – What is Cloud? – Part 1

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Robert Corradini

Hi All, its Rob again and I decided to write a series on Azure Cloud. Since Azure Stack is months away from GA, its good to understand Azure Cloud for a few reasons. The API is the consistent across Azure Cloud and Azure Stack. And building a hybrid environment is the future for IT to use features like DR, Application Portability and Backup.

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Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview finally sees the light….:)

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Robert Corradini

Change is in the air! I know that phrase is associated with spring, but I love the change of seasons, especially, winter, when days get shorter and I get to spend time in the snow with my kids. Every winter, I think I can rely on the patterns from the seasons before, but I quickly find I have to adapt to a new reality. For example, I live near Boston and just when I thought we would have a mild winter, mother nature strikes. One week its 50’s and the next we are in the middle of a blizzard. Changes and transformations are just another fact of life.

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