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Erik Smith
Hopkinton, MA. USA
I'm a Technical Director working at Dell EMC as a member of the Connectrix BU.
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Getting the most from your SAN with Dell EMC PowerMax
PowerMax Feature Prevents Congestion Spreading The big news in our new white paper is data that proves how a new PowerMax feature namely, initiator bandwidth limits, will allow you to prevent congestion spreading due to oversubscription from happening, even when you need to access your 32G storage from a 4G... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2020 at Brass Tacks
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Connectrix in CloudIQ!
Posted Apr 30, 2019 at Brass Tacks
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NVMe over Fabrics’ Discovery problem
Posted Dec 7, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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The power of Layers
Posted Dec 5, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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ZTIP – Part 3: Provision and Transport
Posted Dec 4, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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Zero Touch Infrastructure Provisioning (ZTIP)
Posted Dec 1, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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The IaaS Missing Link
Posted Nov 30, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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How to determine a switch's role in a Clos network with MLAG’d leaves
Posted Nov 29, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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Storage Protocol Stacks for NVMe
Posted Nov 27, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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NVMe over Fabrics: Not ready (yet)
Posted Jul 24, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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Slow Drain due to Bandwidth mismatch and Large Block READs
Posted Apr 13, 2017 at Brass Tacks
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Thanks EMC!
Just about 19 years ago, I pulled into the yard at Tresca Brothers and asked my dispatcher if I should wash out for the day. He said “No. One more up front” meaning I had another load to deliver and that I should get it from the Central mix (basically... Continue reading
Posted Sep 5, 2016 at Brass Tacks
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Storage protocol stacks
Posted Jul 5, 2016 at Brass Tacks
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Slow Drains are impacting your SAN!
Posted Feb 2, 2016 at Brass Tacks
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Fibre Channel is better than Ethernet...
Posted May 19, 2015 at Brass Tacks
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Join me at EMC World 2015!
It's almost time for EMC World (May 4th - 7th) and I’m happy to say that once again I’ve been honored with a couple of highly coveted EMC World speaking slots! Based on the very positive feedback I received from last year, I’ll be sticking to a similar format and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2015 at Brass Tacks
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A Simple Virtual Storage Network Demo
Posted May 2, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Virtual Storage Networks – Part 3 (Multi-tenant capable topologies)
Posted May 1, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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New E-Lab Interoperability Navigator features
Posted Apr 25, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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An Introduction to Virtual Storage Networks
Posted Apr 16, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Join me at EMC World 2014!
It's almost time for EMC World again (May 5th - 8th) and I'm happy to say that I've been granted the privilege of presenting to our Customers again. I'm actually very excited about this year because we're introducing a few new concepts, demonstrating at least one of them and mixing... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Fast Sideways - A connectivity point of view
Posted Apr 14, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Virtual Storage Networks – Part 2 (Requirements for multi-tenant storage)
Posted Apr 10, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Coming soon: The next generation E-Lab Interoperability Navigator!
Posted Apr 9, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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Virtual Storage Networks - Part 1
Posted Apr 9, 2014 at Brass Tacks
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