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The Intersection of Technology and Reality

Month: December 2010

An End User’s Cloud Security Question

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), December 22, 2010

I recently received an email with a question about the security of cloud computing environments.  The question comes from a knowledgeable user and boils down to ‘Isn’t my data safer on my systems?’  I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community.  Does anyone…

Redundancy in Data Storage: Part 1: RAID Levels

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), December 13, 2010February 21, 2011

I recently read Joe Onisick’s piece, “Have We Taken Data Redundancy Too Far?”  I think Joe raises a good point, and this is a natural topic to dissect in detail after my previous article about cloud disaster recovery and business continuity.  I, too, am concerned by the variety of data…

Cisco Unified Computing System Value: A Customer’s Perspective

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), December 8, 2010December 8, 2010

For those who do not know me, I’ve been blogging since April 2010.  My primary subject has been Cisco UCS and everything around it.  Now, when I say “everything around it”, I really mean “everything around it as it pertains to my organization”.  If you want to read a lot,…

Virtualizing the PCIe bus with Aprius

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), December 6, 2010

One of the vendors that presented during Gestalt IT’s Tech Field day 2010 in San Jose was Aprius (http://gestaltit.com/field-day/) (http://www.aprius.com/.)  Aprius’s product virtualizes the PCIe I/O bus and pushes that PCIe traffic over 10GE to the server.  In Aprius’s model you have an Aprius appliance that houses multiple off-the-shelf PCIe…

Disaster Recovery and the Cloud

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), December 1, 2010February 2, 2011

It goes without saying that modern business relies on information technology.  As a result, it is essential that operations personnel consider the business impact of outages and plan accordingly.  As an illustration, Virgin Blue recently experienced a twenty-hour outage in its reservation system that resulted in losses of up to…

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