{"id":1500,"date":"2012-08-30T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T07:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pogostorage.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-03-19T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:07:24","slug":"its-vmwrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/its-vmwrap\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a VMwrap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! VMworld 2012 is in the can, and we\u2019re heading home.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time at the show &#8212; talked to lots of potential customers, and saw some familiar faces, too. \u00a0Always good to catch up with old friends and make some new ones along the way!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-258 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 474px; height: 311px;\" title=\"VMw 12 - Server\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/VMw-12-Server.jpg\" alt=\"VMw 12 - Server\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was really fun to show off our new VDI server. <em>(You can see the VDI appliance inside the demo rack, above.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We also had the opportunity for some great conversations with our partners (shout-outs to Nexenta, STEC, and LSI!)<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0VDI announcement was a big hit and we got lots of positive feedback.\u00a0People are excited about the StorageDirector Z250VDI storage appliance for VDI because it helps them consolidate, reduce costs, and makes deployments so much easier. In short, we\u2019re making VDI easy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 326px;\" title=\"VMw - LSI booth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/VMw-LSI-booth.jpg\" alt=\"VMw - LSI booth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the show, LSI debuted their Nytro MegaRAID acceleration cards. The cards will be available soon in both our server and storage products. \u00a0For our customers, this means even better performance while reducing overall storage costs.<\/p>\n<p>And while our VDI announcement was a top moment for us, it did get some stiff competition from the chance to meet this guy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-267 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 337px;\" title=\"VMw E + Data\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/VMw-E-Data.jpg\" alt=\"VMw E + Data\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, not Erik (although that\u2019s always a highlight, of course) &#8212; it\u2019s Brent Spiner, Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation! \u00a0(Data&#8230;get it? Data?!)<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t get a chance to stop by our booth at VMworld, visit our new VDI page to find out how we\u2019re making VDI easy and cost-effective with our all-in-one VMware-certified StorageDirector Z250VDI appliance, powered by Nexenta VSA for View.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257 aligncenter\" style=\"width: 409px; height: 368px;\" title=\"VMW 12 - Crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/VMW-12-Crowd.jpeg\" alt=\"VMW 12 - Crowd\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks again, VMworld &#8212; we had a great time.<br \/>\nSee you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! VMworld 2012 is in the can, and we\u2019re heading home. We had a great time at the show &#8212; talked to lots of potential customers, and saw some familiar faces, too. \u00a0Always good to catch up with old friends and make some new ones along the way! It was really fun to show off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rackmount-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}