Michael Haag

Michael is a Group Product Marketing Manager in the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware, specializing in hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and traditional SAN storage with virtualization.

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Takes on GDPR Concerns

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The General Data Protection Regulation—or simply GDPR to anyone who has been caught up in the mad rush to meet today’s new European Union (EU) requirements—is a new law on data protection and privacy that directly impacts how organizations in the EU store data. Note the key words there: data and storage! GDPR, along with Read more...
VMware Debuts as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

VMware Debuts as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

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VMware debuted in the Leaders quadrant in the just-published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). VMware is excited to be one of the software-only vendors in the Magic Quadrant and believes that VMware vSAN continues to disrupt the market. Top industry analysts are increasingly recognizing the critical role software plays in powering HCI solutions. Read more...
VMware Debuts as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

VMware Debuts as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

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VMware debuted in the Leaders quadrant in the just-published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). VMware is excited to be one of the software-only vendors in the Magic Quadrant and believes that VMware vSAN continues to disrupt the market. Top industry analysts are increasingly recognizing the critical role software plays in powering HCI solutions. Read more...

IDC Data Shows HCI Solutions Powered by VMware vSAN Represented the Largest Share of Total 1H2017 HCI Spending

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Recent market studies from IDC and 451 show how critical the core HCI software is to the fast-growing HCI market, and VMware vSAN is leading the market. In IDC’s 2Q 2017 Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, the total value of hyperconverged solutions running VMware vSAN accounted for 33.3% of 1H2017 HCI market revenue, making HCI systems powered Read more...

Introducing vSAN 6.6.1 and New Operational Savings

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Today, VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 became generally available. With this update we are excited to announce vSAN 6.6.1, which adds even more new features on top of the major vSAN 6.6 release that launched only a few months back. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) powered by vSAN will now benefit from even lower operational costs and accelerated Read more...

vSAN Hits Another Gear with New Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family

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Do you still need that extra push to join the thousands of organizations adopting hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? Looking for one more reason to convince your management team to modernize your data center? We are here to help you “hit the refresh!” Today Intel revealed the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. We are excited to announce Read more...

Demonstrating Highly-Available, Stateful Apps on Docker

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Another great DockerCon event is complete, and we enjoyed showing off the latest VMware solutions for containers and cloud native applications. One question that we fielded from a number of attendees was around how to run stateful applications with Docker swarm mode, vSphere, and persistent storage. If you are also struggling with this question and Read more...

New Mechanism for Unleashing vSAN Innovation

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A major advantage of vSAN is that it is natively integrated with vSphere—in fact it’s the only vSphere-embedded storage solution available! As a result of this architecture customers benefit from management simplicity, high performance and a natural way to evolve to HCI. But up to now, that tight relationship also meant that vSAN releases were Read more...

vSAN Got a 2.5x Performance Increase: Thank You Intel Optane!

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Today, March 19th Intel announced the Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X—the first flash device built on the much-anticipated 3D XPoint technology. This is exciting news for vSAN customers, since—as a result of Intel and VMware’s active collaboration—we are pleased to offer day 1 support of vSAN 6.5 and ESXi 6.5 with the Intel® Optane™ SSD Read more...

How vSAN Helps Evolve IT without Risk

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Over the past few months, I have interacted with many of you—current and potential vSAN users—at various conferences and events, and one common theme is becoming clear: vSAN has moved into the mainstream. Customer questions shifted from basic technology topics to how vSAN can accelerate business, not just IT objectives. As a mainstream option, you Read more...