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The question often comes up: Should we allow our employees to engage in social networking? The debate has raged for years, and surprisingly, it is still not settled. In general, the discussion tends to fall down four possible paths:

1) Social media reduces productivity
2) There are a lot of threats that comes from social media
3) Social media is a new technology and therefore is scary
4) Employees don't really need social media anyway

With the availability of smartphones, laptops, and netbooks these days, more and more employees are working remotely or from the road. While all these mobile tools create a great way for employees to work on the go, they also create new challenges, especially with communication and security.

Can your storage system auto-tier storage at the block level? That answer is likely no. Most storage vendors allow you to move whole LUNs between different tiers of storage but they lack the intelligence or technology to move individual blocks. Why is this cool and desired?

In yesterday's world, you could get a computer virus and then launch a cleanup tool. Then, as it removed the infection, you were free to sit and ponder the lovely flying cars that we'd have in the future. Today, you could get a computer virus and never notice, then when you check your bank balance online, all your money could be transferred overseas while you ponder the fact we still don't have our flying cars.

VMworld is the premiere virtualization conference hosted by VMware.  This will be my fourth VMworld conference and outside of Christmas or the Drake Relays, this is my favorite time of year.