In keeping with the tradition of the last three to five years, 2012 is being touted by analysts and vendors alike as "the year for VDI." This year there is a slightly new twist to the hype and marketing, and that’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). It’s a simple concept: Employees own devices that they like to use and are most productive on; IT should support the apps and services used to run the business on the employees’ devices. To see the full post visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232300473.
NVGRE
The most viable competitor to VXLAN is NVGRE which was proposed by Microsoft, Intel, HP and Dell. It is another encapsulation technique intended to allow virtual network overlays across the physical network. Both techniques also remove the scalability issues with VLANs which are bound at a max of 4096. NVGRE…
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Reassesing ‘Vendor Lock-In’
Lock in is an oft discussed consideration when making technology decisions. I tend to see it used more by vendors seeding Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD), but I also see it in the native decision making processes of many of my customers. Let’s take a look at it, starting with…
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IT Needs its Gates and Jobs
Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc. Hand that data sheet to a highly-intelligent, well-educated lay-person and you will get a blank stare….