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Today, Tuesday, September 20 at 10:00 a.m. PST, we'll be holding our first live chat on The Changing Nature of Storage Virtualization. We had a lively discussion on Twitter with yesterday's RWW Big Question. Now If you want to continue the conversation interactively on our live text chat, just come back to this post at 10:00 and join in the conversation.
The discussion will be led by our very own David Strom with three experts from our partner NetApp - Jean Banko, Vaughn Stewart and Julian Cates - and Wen Yu from VMware.
You can see a summary of the above chat here.
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