VMworld 2010 and today’s release of vCloud Director marks a major milestone in the maturity of Private Clouds.  The ability to collect & manage resource pools as virtual data centers, provision & meter them at the tenant level and integrate all the orchestration directly with vSphere represents a big step along the journey to the Cloud.

As part of a long-standing, deep and ongoing joint engineering effort, NetApp has been working behind the scenes with VMware to tightly integrate 7 key storage capabilities with vCloud Director in order to enable the Private Cloud every enterprise wants - one which maintains control for IT, while satisfying the agility demanded by the business and cost-effectiveness required in this uncertain economic backdrop.

Come visit my special breakout session to learn more about how to deliver the best of aspects of the Cloud to your enterprise.  We'll feature a demo by none other than VMware guru Eric Forgette (author of the seminal VM alignment TR and creator of the popular NetApp Rapid Cloning Utility) and real-world Cloud practitioner advice from Randy Rowland of premier VMware Service Provider - Terremark!

10:30 am PST NetApp Breakout Session @ VMworld: Essential Storage for Cloud Infrastructures (SP9659)

Moscone North Hall Room #133

Throughout the week of VMworld San Francisco, you'll also find me on several panels, briefing customers and analysts in NetApp whisper suites and of course hanging out at the NetApp booth picking up tips from our cadre of vExperts.

I hope to see you there!
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