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nope, probably enterpise cloud on steroids

Sorry everybody, I'm on a holiday in Switzerlnd and Austria and getting on the interwebs is a bit harder in the mountains I'll go through all of your replies (and give my thoughts) when I'm back in the Dutch mountains! Arjan

Thanks everybody! You're comments are all really appreciated!! I like the tool box analogy

If you want to dive into Storage, make sure you'll read the book by Nigel Poulton Data Storage Networking and his excellent video's on the same subject Comptia Storage + It's a great start. Beyond that there are many paths to go on, HP, EMC, NetApp all got there own learning tools, but SNIA has also some great training and…

Great, tell me more I'm not saying SDDC is a mature architecture yet. And monitoring is one of those fields where a lot can still be done. Let's see if we can find a company who could help us with this issue

The thing with hypervisor based replication is that you can do this on a VM basis where storage based replication will replicate the entire volume, which depending on the number of VM's on that volume could mean you will replicate much more then needed (depending on SLA). So Hypervisor based replication tends to be faster…

Had the thought, only I would have gone for the " but maybe it was meant to be the . on the I But I want to thank you all for a great discussion, and a modern car drives on electricity thanks to some great hardware invention... So indeed the one needs the other

Hi All, sorry for the late reply, been on holiday in Belgium and I was not able to connect to the internet for most of the time (that was nice for a change ) Although I asked the question, I agree with Michael on the management between tiers. But the other question still stands, and with flash solving the ever growing IOPS…

I think we can agree on all things than The thing is that the same goes for the environments that are spinning in the traditional DC's at this moment. Making sure everything works for you, instead of against you, is why all of us probably shouldn't be afraid to lose our job

Could be, but is that so much better in the traditional DC's? I can agree on a lot of your points, but still companies need to go forward, and the same things were said years ago about VMware (and hypervisors)...