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The Intersection of Technology and Reality

Month: May 2010

FCoE multi-hop; Do you Care?

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 30, 2010May 30, 2010

There is a lot of discussion in the industry around FCoE’s current capabilities, and specifically around the ability to perform multi-hop transmission of FCoE frames and the standards required to do so.  A recent discussion between Brad Hedlund at Cisco and Ken Henault at HP (http://bit.ly/9Kj7zP) prompted me to write…

Welcome to the New Site!

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 26, 2010May 26, 2010

Today Define the Cloud officially transfers here to the new hosted site.  It was time for an upgrade from the wordpress.com hosted blog.  Through privately hosting I’ll be able to provide additional site content and functionality as things progress. If you find any issues, broken links, or links pointing back…

Technical Deep Dive

Why Cisco UCS is my ‘A-Game’ Server Architecture

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 23, 2010December 28, 2018

A-Game: When I discuss my A-Game it’s my go to hardware vendor for a specific data center component.  For example I have an A-Game platform for: Storage SAN LAN (access Layer LAN specifically, you don’t want me near your aggregation, core or WAN) Servers and Blades (traditionally this has been…

Learning from FaceBook’s failures

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 21, 2010May 25, 2010

In the interest of honesty I’ll start this post by saying I’m not a fan of FaceBook and never have been.  This is based on two major things: If you and I don’t keep in touch through email or phone there is a reason for that.  I have no desire…

The Cloud Storage Argument

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 19, 2010May 26, 2010

The argument over the right type of storage for data center applications is an ongoing battle.  This argument gets amplified when discussing cloud architectures both private and public.  Part of the reason for this disparity in thinking is that there is no ‘one size fits all solution.’  The other part…

FCoE initialization Protocol (FIP) Deep Dive

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 15, 2010May 26, 2010

In an attempt to clarify my future posts I will begin categorizing a bit.  The following post will be part of a Technical Deep Dive series. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a protocol designed to move native Fibre Channel over 10 Gigabit Ethernet and above links, I’ve described the…

What the iPad means to cloud computing

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 13, 2010

Let me preface is by saying I am far from an Apple fan boy, in fact I would consider myself the exact opposite.  I don’t like their business tactics (iTunes trying to force Safari down my throat for example) or their hardware lock-in for their laptops.  I would never buy…

HP Flex-10, Cisco VIC, and Nexus 1000v

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), May 1, 2010

When discussing the underlying technologies for cloud computing topologies virtualization is typically a key building block.  Virtualization can be applied to any portion of the data center architecture from load-balancers to routers, and from servers to storage.  Server virtualization is one of the most widely adopted virtualization technologies, and provides…

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