Quick Thoughts
Thoughts From a Global Technology Leadership Forum
I recently had the privilege to attend and participate in a global technology leadership forum. …
Concepts
Why FCoE Standards Matter
Mike Fratto at Network Computing recently wrote an article titled ‘FCoE: Standards Don’t Matter; Vendor…
Technical Deep Dive
Why NetApp is my ‘A-Game’ Storage Architecture
One of, if not the, most popular of my blog posts to date has been…
Technical Deep Dive
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…
Quick Thoughts
The Brocade FCoE Proposition
I recently realized that I, like a lot of the data center industry, have completely…
Technical Deep Dive
What’s the deal with Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN)
For the last several months there has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere…
Technical Deep Dive
Networking Showdown: UCS vs. HP Virtual Connect (Updated)
Note: I have made updates to reflect that Virtual Connect is two words, and technical…
Concepts
FlexFabric – Small Step, Right Direction
Note: I’ve added a couple of corrections below thanks to Stuart Miniman at Wikibon (http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/FCoE_Standards)Â …
Quick Thoughts
How Emulex Broke Out of the ‘Card Pusher’ Box
A few years back when my primary responsibility was architecting server, blade, SAN, and virtualization…
Quick Thoughts
FCoTR a Storage Revolution
As the industry has rapidly standardized and pushed adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)…