Isilon deep-dive

Have you wondered about what made Isilon special enough to attract EMC? What made it worth adding to the storage giant’s portfolio? Well, Ars Technica has a nice writeup that may answer your questions…

Virtualization in the Trenches with VMware

Ars Technica has a nicely-written series on virtualization with VMware at center stage:

1. Basics and Benefits
2. Storage, Networking and Blades
3. Networking in the Enterprise
4. Performance Tuning
5. Large-scale P2V