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What’s the deal with Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN)

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 28, 2010

For the last several months there has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere and Twitter about FCoE and whether full scale deployment requires QCN.Â There are two camps on this: FCoE does not require QCN for proper operation with scale. FCoE does require QCN for proper operation and scale. Typically the camps break […]

The Difference Between ‘Foothold’ and ‘Lock-In’

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 26, 2010

There is always a lot of talk within IT marketing around vendor â€˜lock-in'. This is most commonly found within competitive marketing, i.e. â€˜Product X from Company Y creates lock-in causing you to purchase all future equipment from them. In some cases lock-in definitely exists, in other cases what you really have is better defined as […]

Bacon And Eggs as a Service (BAEaaS) at VMworld

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 24, 2010

Yeah I know the â€˜andâ€™ between bacon and eggs should be lower case but that just looks silly, letâ€™s move on 😉 BAEaaS is a recovery tweetup following the previous nights festivities.Â It was originally scheduled for Tuesday but due to popular demand has been moved to Wednesday (mainly because the amount of large parties […]

Dell, Backing the Right Horse in the Wrong Race

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 22, 2010

With Dellâ€™s announced acquisition of 3par Iâ€™ve been pondering the question of what it is theyâ€™re thinking.Â Iâ€™ve been scouring the blogs looking for an answer and there is none that resonates well with me.Â Most of what I find states they picked a good horse and that the business behind buying a horse to […]

SMT, Matrix and Vblock: Architectures for Private Cloud

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 15, 2010

Cloud computing environments provide enhanced scalability and flexibility to IT organizations.Â Many options exist for building cloud strategies, public, private etc.Â For many companies private cloud is an attractive option because it allows them to maintain full visibility and control of their IT systems.Â Private clouds can also be further enhanced by merging private cloud […]

Why You’re Ready to Create a Private Cloud

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 13, 2010

Iâ€™m catching up on my reading and ran into David Linthicumâ€™s â€˜Why you're not ready to create a private cloudâ€™ (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/why-youre-not-ready-create-private-cloud-458.) Itâ€™s a great article and points out a major issue with private-cloud adoption â€“ internal expertise. The majority of data center teams donâ€™t have the internal expertise required to execute effectively on private-cloud architectures. […]

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