For the Cisco fans or those curious about Cisco’s VN-Link see my post on my colleagues Unified Computing Blog: http://bit.ly/dqIIQK.
Redundancy in Data Storage: Part 2: Geographical Replication
This is a followup to my previous article, Redundancy in Data Storage: Part 1: RAID Levels, where I discussed various site-local data redundancy technologies. Here, I will attempt to detail many of the choices available to provide redundancy beyond the data center that organizations use to solve disaster recovery, business…
Intel’s Betting the Storage I/O Farm on the CPU
I had the privilege of attending Tech Field Day 4 in San Jose this week as a delegate thanks to Stephen Foskett and Gestalt IT. It was a great event and a lot of information was covered in two days of presentations. I’ll be discussing the products and vendors…
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Why NetApp is my ‘A-Game’ Storage Architecture
One of, if not the, most popular of my blog posts to date has been ‘Why Cisco UCS is my ‘A-Game’ Server Architecture (http://www.definethecloud.net/why-cisco-ucs-is-my-a-game-server-architecture.) In that post I describe why I lead with Cisco UCS for most consultative engagements. This follow up for storage has been a long time coming,…