I want to make special mention of Vaughn Stewart of of the Virtual Storage Guy blog.

This guy is sharp, smart, and quite possibly one of the best resources you can tap regarding Virtualization as a technology for the past, present and future.

If you have virtualization involved in your datacenter, small, medium or large.  I’d keep a close watch on what he has to say :)

So, welcome his re-entry to the blogosphere with a visit to his blog! :)

So, timestamp’s aside, NetApp Blogs have snuck 4 more blogs into the blogosphere!

Fortunately for all of us as well, these happen to be some amazingly excellent blogs!

Check them out, and stay tuned for more!

I’ve posted about some NetApp blogs before – Wait, I’m doing it again!

While there are the best of breed blogs which you can easily find here:

There are also some additional ones in our Communities.

So, I encourage you to check out the Community Blogs as well as the community as a whole.  It’s a great resource to ask questions, answer questions and find out all-round general incite into what is going on here, there, and everywhere!

Oh, and don’t forget about that Accelerate conference! :)

Registration is key!

:)

Here at NetApp we have a number of veterans, experts, masters and well – extremely knowledgeable and smart people.

Now without having to sort through the text and descriptions of the NetApp blog page – You can just click on a random picture and get to the goods! :)

I like this approach myself, because that visual journey makes decisions that much easier! :)

And one more to the docket – Recently added!

So, there have been a number of changes around here.

• I’ve switched from default numeric posting names to ‘named and dated’ events. 
• I’ve attempted to start using LiveWriter again, which can be a challenge when you find a complicated manual process of editing files directly to be so much more appealing!
• I’ve added some additional blogs, with some more to come.
• Primarily filling out my fellow Microsoft folksies, special respect to Dan Rey, Ariel, and the new Microsoft Beta Blog (Thanks Trika!)
• I’ll be adding a number of NetApp blogs for some good close friends and folks who have a lot of indepth knowledge to share, and read respectively!
• I’ve taken some additional betas and will be providing further obscure "non-violating NDA" details of the exams in depth
• I have a number of broken things, which I haven’t been bothered to fix such as ATOM RSS feeders, carriage returns for that "ShareThis" app – and who knows what other SEO violations I may be under!

I think that is a fair coverage of some changes that have occurred – As for things to come:

• Indepth posting of Exams, Certifications, Betas – Who takes them, who should, how you can be that person, and being a master on a novices diet.
• Performance assaults, differences, metrics and other insanity
• Super cool NetAppy stuff, the likes of which will shock and amaze you
• (Yet, you’ll eventually be of the understanding as I am – of accepting that as how things OUGHT to be ;))
• More CWUG Updates! Yea you heard me!
• More Beta exams and Post-Mortems, and perhaps a review of tests of the past.
• And perhaps insight into the mind of a Pekingese!

See you soon!