Tag Archives: NetApp

A Growing Respect for Salespeople II: SE’s

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

My last post covered a few awesome salespeople / account managers I’ve been lucky enough to deal with over the last few years.  In this post, I’m going to discuss some great Pre-Sales Engineers (or similar folks) I’ve dealt with. … Continue reading →

Posted in People | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

A Growing Respect for Good Salespeople

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

How it used to be (for way too long) I’ve worked in IT for more than 15 years, and for the first twelve years, I didn’t interact with a single vendor salesperson who gave me a reason to think of … Continue reading →

Posted in People | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Cisco Live 2012 – First Time Speaker’s Perspective part II

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

My Breakout Session My breakout session on Wednesday, June 13 was the reason I attended Cisco Live, and certainly the reason I was invited to attend by Citrix. I have to say that, while I wondered whether I would like … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Cisco Live 2012 – First Time Speaker’s Perspective part I

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

Cisco Live 2012 was a first for me in a couple of ways – first-time attendee as well as first-time speaker.  In addition to my earlier recap posts, I thought it might be useful to share my thoughts on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

FlexPod Tech Specs for iOS

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

A cool new free app that I’ve been beta-testing for a few weeks has been released on the iOS App Store.  FlexPod Tech Specs by Vallard Benincosa is a universal app that works on both the iPhone and iPad.  The app … Continue reading →

Posted in Applications | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Storage – Who knew it could be so cool?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

I’m the first one to admit that when I first began investigating the possibility of deploying a large Citrix XenDesktop / virtual desktop environment, I knew very little about storage, and especially SAN storage.  My experience was limited to configuring … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Storage | Tagged , | 3 Comments

FlexPods have landed

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

Update: Forgot to include the specs on our FlexPods.  Have included those at the bottom of the post. Something awesome happened this week – the hardware on which we’ll be running my virtual desktop project and more has arrived!  Here … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware | Tagged , , | 7 Comments