Archive for the ‘Chinwag’ Category

This weeks vendorwag is with Nimble Storage – who have been on my radar for sometime – I seem to keep on bumping into the same folks at every VMUG I speak at in the US! I think this might start a theme because I’ve have been chatting to the guys from TinTri and Astute as well.

I spoke to Ajay Singh who is the VP Product Management at Nimble. Here’s his bio…

Ajay is responsible for product management and technical marketing at Nimble Storage. Ajay has over 15 years of experience in data storage spanning roles in product management, marketing and engineering. Prior to Nimble, Ajay led a team of Product Managers with a broad portfolio of products at NetApp. He also held product management and product marketing roles at Decru and Logitech. Earlier in his career Ajay worked on disk drive technologies at Quantum Corporation as well as the Data Storage Systems Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Ajay holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as M.S. and B.Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and the Indian Institute of Technology respectively.

I spoke to the guys at Nimble, and came up with the following questions – but as ever the fluid nature of the vendorwag took us in other uncharted lands too!

Q. Can you outline briefly how Nimble Storage utilizes flash, how does it make it different from say NetApp and their PAM Cards???

Q. How easy do you think it would be for Nimbles competitors to duplicate your design?

Q. I understand Nimble Storage comes with specialist “templates” can you explain what they are, and what would the template for VMware do?

Q. Can you tell me more about Nimbles plans for integration with VMware – VAAI? VASA, SRM? vCenter Plug-ins, VDI Rapid Clones – all things VMware customers have come to expect from their storage partners, how about Nimble?

Q. What are Nimbles plans for the future – NFS as well as iSCSI?

As ever if you want the MP3 version of the chinwag it’s here – but to be honest it’s much easier to subscribe to the MP3 podcast via iTunes which means the podcast will be download when ever I do them. Alternatively, if you would prefer the videos on your iPAD/iPOD/iPhone – you subscribe to the video version of the Chinwags there (beware they are big!). If you don’t use iTunes, here’s the generic RSS Feed link

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In this miniwag with Edward Haletky we discuss his experience at the VMware Labs, and we also chat about Edward’s session on security.

In this miniwag I chat with David Davis about his new vSphere5 video series, and TrainSignal’s plans for videos on other VMware Technologies.

Me & Eric had double-blind face-off over the rights and wrongs of virtualizing vCenter…

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I first met Mike at the Indy VMUG – we chat about the regional event I attend (and the massage you could get) and we also talk about his recent deployment of FlexPod…

In this miniwag I chat to John Troyer, VMware Social Media guy… We chat about VMworld’s past and present, and how the VMware Community has evolved over the years.

Lee Dilworth is one of my main contact points for SRM in the UK – and reviewed all the SRM books to date. In this miniwag we chat about the new vSphere Replication feature…

In this miniwag I chat with Shannon Snowden about some of the sessions he’s attend her at VMworld. He attended a session about VDI and medical arena – which is Shannon’s area too…

In this miniwag from the VMworld Bloggers pen is with Alan Renouf (aka PowerCLIMAN) we chat about the new features in PowerCLI 5.0 and auto-deploy.

Kenny was one of the very first chinwaggers, and as a testiment to the power chinwag – he now works for VCE. We chat about vBlocks and how the industry is heading toward pre-assembled and pre-packages mix of storage, network and servers.