Bob Olwig VP of Corporate Business Development for World Wide Technologies (www.wwt.com) asked me to provide 10 things to know about UCS for his blog http://bobolwig.wordpress.com. See the post 10 Things to Know About Cisco UCS here: http://bobolwig.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/10-things-to-know-about-cisco-ucs/.
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IT Needs its Gates and Jobs
Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc. Hand that data sheet to a highly-intelligent, well-educated lay-person and you will get a blank stare….
Why Oracle’s 72 port 10GE switch doesn’t matter
I recently ran into some internal buzz about Oracle’s 72 port ‘top-of-rack’ switch announcement and it peeked my interest, so I started taking a look. Oracle selling a switch is definitely interesting on the surface but then again they did just purchase Sun for a bargain basement price and Sun…
What the iPad means to cloud computing
Let me preface is by saying I am far from an Apple fan boy, in fact I would consider myself the exact opposite. I don’t like their business tactics (iTunes trying to force Safari down my throat for example) or their hardware lock-in for their laptops. I would never buy…