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FCoTR a Storage Revolution

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 17, 2010

As the industry has rapidly standardized and pushed adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) there continue to be many skeptics.Â Many Fibre Channel gurus balk at the idea of Ethernet being capable of guaranteeing the right level of lossless delivery and performance required for the SCSI data their disks need.Â IP Junkies like Greg […]

The Art of Pre-Sales

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 16, 2010

On a recent customer call being led by a vendor account manager and engineer I witnessed some key mistakes by the engineer as he presented the technology to the customer.Â None of the mistakes were glaring or show stopping but they definitely kept the conversation from having the value that was potentially there.Â That conversation […]

Data Center 101: Server Systems

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 11, 2010

As the industry moves deeper and deeper into virtualization, automation, and cloud architectures it forces us as engineers to break free of our traditional silos. For years many of us were able to do quite well being experts in one discipline with little to no knowledge in another. Cloud computing, virtualization and other current technological […]

Have We Taken Data Redundancy too Far?

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 10, 2010

During a recent conversation about disk configuration and data redundancy on a storage array I began to think about everything we put into data redundancy. The question that came to mind is the title of this post â€˜Have we taken data redundancy too far?â€™ Now donâ€™t get me wrong, I love data as much as […]

Why Cloud is as ‘Green’ As It Gets

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 9, 2010

I stumbled across a document from Greenpeace citing cloud for additional power draws and the need for more renewable energy (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/make-it-green-cloud-computing/.)Â This is one of a series Iâ€™ve been noticing from the organization bastardizing IT for its effect on the environment and chastising companies for new data centers.Â These articles all strike a cord with […]

HP’s FlexFabric

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on June 25, 2010

There were quite a few announcements this week at the HP Technology Forum in Vegas.Â Several of these announcements were extremely interesting, of these the ones that resonated the most with me were: Superdome 2: Iâ€™m not familiar with the Superdome 1 nor am I in any way an expert on non x86 architectures.Â In […]

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