Quick Thoughts
Why Oracle’s 72 port 10GE switch doesn’t matter
I recently ran into some internal buzz about Oracle’s 72 port ‘top-of-rack’ switch announcement and…
Data Center 101
Data Center 101: Local Area Network Switching
Interestingly enough 2 years ago I couldn’t even begin to post an intelligent blog on…
Quick Thoughts
How Emulex Broke Out of the ‘Card Pusher’ Box
A few years back when my primary responsibility was architecting server, blade, SAN, and virtualization…
Quick Thoughts
FCoTR a Storage Revolution
As the industry has rapidly standardized and pushed adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)…
Concepts
The Art of Pre-Sales
On a recent customer call being led by a vendor account manager and engineer I…
Data Center 101
Data Center 101: Server Systems
As the industry moves deeper and deeper into virtualization, automation, and cloud architectures it forces…
Concepts
Have We Taken Data Redundancy too Far?
During a recent conversation about disk configuration and data redundancy on a storage array I…
Quick Thoughts
Why Cloud is as ‘Green’ As It Gets
I stumbled across a document from Greenpeace citing cloud for additional power draws and the…