One of the major challenges when looking into cloud architectures is the organizational/process shifts required to make the transition. Technology refreshes seem daunting but changing organizational structure and internal auditing/change management can make rip-and-replace seem like child’s play. In this post I’ll discuss some ways in which to simplify the…
Month: April 2010
Objectivity
I came across a blog recently that peaked my interest. The post was from Nate at TechOpsGuys (http://bit.ly/9PxZQV) and it purports to explain the networking deficiencies of UCS. The problem with the posts explanation is that it’s based off of The Tolly Report on HP vs. UCS (http://bit.ly/bRQW2g) which has…
Cloud Types
Within the discussion of cloud computing there are several concepts that get tossed around and mixed up. Part of the reason for this is that there are several cloud architecture types. While there are tons of types and sub-types discussed I’ll focus on four major deployment models here: Public Cloud,…
Post defining VN-Link
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. Related posts: Shakespearean Guest Post Data Center Bridging Exchange Inter-Fabric Traffic in UCS Server Networking With gen 2 UCS Hardware HP Flex-10, Cisco VIC, and Nexus 1000v
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a protocol standard ratified in June of 2009. FCoE provides the tools for encapsulation of Fibre Channel (FC) in 10 Gigabit Ethernet frames. The purpose of FCoE is to allow consolidation of low-latency, high performance FC networks onto 10GE infrastructures. This allows for a…
What is the biggest barrier to your move into the cloud?
Take the poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/83955/edtrt Related posts: The Biggest Threat to Your Private-Cloud Deployment: Your IT Staff Private Cloud: An IT Staffer’s Guide To Success Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage The Cloud Rules What the iPad means to cloud computing
What's Stopping cloud?
So with everyone talking about cloud and all of the benefits of cloud computing why isn’t everyone diving in? The barriers to adoption can be classified into three major categories: Personal, Technical, and Business. Personal Reasons: Personal barriers to cloud adoption are broad ranging and can be quite difficult to…
Data Center Bridging Exchange
Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) is one of the components of the DCB standards. These standards offer enhancements to standard ethernet which are backwards compatible with traditional Ethernet and provide support for I/O Consolidation (http://www.definethecloud.net/?p=18.) The three purposes of DCBX are: Discovery of DCB capability: The ability for DCB capable…