Anita Kibunguchy

Anita Kibunguchy is a Product Marketing Manager on the Storage and Availability Business Unit and currently focuses on message amplification and awareness for VMware's core HCI product VMware vSAN. She manages social media & digital programs, the storage blog, web collateral, and webinars. Prior to business school, Anita worked as an IT Consultant for Accenture focusing on systems development for large government transformational projects. She holds a B.Sc in Management Information Systems and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. Follow her on twitter @kibuanita

Recent Posts

Understanding The Layers Of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

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We’re almost half way through the year, and it is shaping up to be a “tipping-point” year for hyper-convergence and HCI. Combine faster CPUs, lower cost flash (with exciting technologies on the horizon) and software innovation with the majority of data centers standardizing on server virtualization, now is the time to extend existing infrastructure investments with newer, Read more...

Top 5 Virtual SAN Posts From 2016 to-Date

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Time doesn’t slow down for anybody, so it’s understandable if you miss some information here and there. Luckily, we’ve got you covered on Virtual Blocks. Take a look back on some of the most popular Virtual SAN posts from the past few months. What’s New-VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 On February 10th, we announced VMware Virtual SAN Read more...

Virtual SAN 6.2 – Deduplication And Compression Deep Dive

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Virtual SAN 6.2 introduced several highly anticipated product features and in this blog, we’ll focus on some of the coolest ones: Dedupe & Compression. These features were requested by VMware customers and I am glad that we listened to the customer. When talking about Dedupe and Compression, one first needs to determine why an organization Read more...

VMware Virtual SAN: The Technology And Its Future

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As discussed in earlier posts, the latest version of Virtual SAN (v.6.2) announced on February 10, 2016 is the biggest release of the product since its debut in March 2014. The list of new features is impressive and makes Virtual SAN very competitive against the most sophisticated storage platforms in the market today. Indeed, with Read more...

Virtual SAN 6.2 Licensing Guide

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VMware, the market leader in powering Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), enables the lowest cost and highest performance next-generation HCI solutions through proven VMware Hyper-Converged Software. The natively integrated software combines the marketing-leading VMware vSphere hypervisor, the VMware vCenter Server unified management solution, and radically simple VMware Virtual SAN storage with the broadest and deepest set of HCI Read more...

Introducing VMware Hyper-Converged Software

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VMware Hyper-Converged Software Powering the industry’s largest Hyper-Converged Infrastructure ecosystem Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is transforming the way private datacenter infrastructure is being built –see this post for an overview of HCI.  It eliminates the traditional hardware silos of compute, storage and networking, to move all the intelligence into a single software layer running on industry-standard Read more...

Oracle U2VL With Virtual SAN And The Batch Processing Use Case

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Unix to Virtualized Linux (U2VL) is a critical step towards SDDC, it targets to migrate applications and data from physical Unix servers to Linux virtual machines running on x86 virtualized infrastructure. These applications are typically business critical, therefore, customers normally take a very cautious approach by doing a carefully planned and executed Proof-of-Concept (POC) in Read more...