Concepts
BYOD: Bring Your Own Disaster
In keeping with the tradition of the last three to five years, 2012 is being…
Concepts
Hybrid Cloud’s Burst Bubble
One of the more hyped use-case examples for hybrid cloud is cloud bursting. And why…
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Horton Hears Hadoop
I’m feeling Seuss-ish so here goes (Line 1 and 2 by Ken Oestreich @fountnhead.) Of…
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The Idle Cycle Conundrum
One of the advantages of a private cloud architecture is the flexible pooling of resources…
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TCO and ROI: A Cadillac Perspective
This summer I traded in my beloved Toyota 4 runner for a Cadillac CTS V…
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Blades are Not the Future
Kevin Houston, Founder of Blades Made Simple and all around server and blade rocket surgeon,…
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Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development
You’ve been driving a perfectly suitable family sedan for the last ten years. It’s highly…
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Hypervisors are not the Droids You Seek
Long ago, in a data center far, far away, we as an industry moved away…
Technical Deep Dive
Server Networking With gen 2 UCS Hardware
** this post has been slightly edited thanks to feedback from Sean McGee** In previous…
Concepts
Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage
One of the key decisions in architecting an infrastructure for private cloud is selecting a…