I was invited to post a blog on the WWT virtualization blog, I chose to discuss Cisco Pass-Through switching with UCS. See the blog there at: http://vblog.wwtlab.com/2010/06/22/collapsing-server-management-points-with-ucs/.
There are several other great posts there you should take a look at.
While network overlays are not a new concept, they have come back into the limelight, thanks to drivers brought on by large-scale virtualization. Several standards have been proposed to enable virtual networks to be layered over a physical network infrastructure: VXLAN, NVGRE, and SST. While each proposed standard uses different…
The argument over the right type of storage for data center applications is an ongoing battle. This argument gets amplified when discussing cloud architectures both private and public. Part of the reason for this disparity in thinking is that there is no ‘one size fits all solution.’ The other part…
Driving Digital Transformation “Digital, Digitization, Digital, Digital, Digital Transformation. There, I’ve hit my mandatory quota of 5 digital mentions for my presentation, now we can get to something interesting.†That was my opening line at a large data center and cloud conference in Rome. It wasn’t the one I’d planned,…