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Year: 2011
Build For IT Nirvana
In many data centers large and small there is a history of making short-term decisions that affect long-term design. These may be based on putting out immediate fires, such as rolling out a new application, expanding an old one, or replacing failed hardware. They may also be made by short-sighted…
Private Cloud: It’s Not About ROI
Most private cloud discussions revolve around the return on investment of the architecture. Many discussions begin and quickly end with ROI. The reason is that ROI is very difficult to show in real numbers for any IT investment, but more so when the majority of the costs are soft costs….
The Business Suit: Spinach and Kryptonite
For VMworld this year I decided to pack heavy. I spent the week in suits rather than my typical IT polos and jeans, slacks and shirts type attire. No particular reasoning for the change although the factors were along the lines of: change of pace, stepping it up, and ‘It’s…
How to Boost Cloud Reliability
Clouds fail. That’s a fact. But if your company uses business apps that are tied to the availability of public cloud services, you can—and must—take steps to mitigate these failures by getting schooled on a few key factors: service-level agreements (SLAs), redundancy options, application design, and the type of service…
Thoughts From a Global Technology Leadership Forum
I recently had the privilege to attend and participate in a global technology leadership forum. The forum consisted of technology investors, vendors and thought leaders and was an excellent event. The tracks I focused on were VDI, Big Data, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Networks, Cloud and Collaboration. The following…
Passwords Are Doomed: You NEED Two-Factor Authentication
How many people use eight-character or less passwords with the first letter being capital and last entries being numbers? People are predictable and so are their passwords. To make things worse, people are lazy and tend to use the same passwords for just about everything that requires one. A study…
Why FCoE Standards Matter
Mike Fratto at Network Computing recently wrote an article titled ‘FCoE: Standards Don’t Matter; Vendor Choice Does’ (http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage-networking-management/231002706.) I definitely differ from Mike’s opinion on the subject. While I’m no fan of the process of making standards (puts sausage making to shame), or the idea of slowing progress to wait…
Flexpod Discussion with Vaughn Stewart and Abhinav Joshi
I enjoyed a great conversation with Netapp’s Vaughn Stewart and Cisco’s Abhinav Joshi about FlexPod last week during Cisco Live 2011. Check out the video below. Related posts: CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project The Difference Between Private Cloud and Converged Infrastructure Private Cloud: It’s Not About ROI Thought Experiment…
VDI, the Next Generation or the Final Frontier?
After sitting through a virtualization sales pitch focused around Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) this afternoon I had several thoughts on the topic I thought may be blog worthy. VDI has been a constant buzzword for a few years now, riding the coattails of server virtualization. For the majority of those…