I recently received an email with a question about the security of cloud computing environments. The question comes from a knowledgeable user and boils down to ‘Isn’t my data safer on my systems?’ I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community. Does anyone…
Month: December 2010
Redundancy in Data Storage: Part 1: RAID Levels
I recently read Joe Onisick’s piece, “Have We Taken Data Redundancy Too Far?â€Â I think Joe raises a good point, and this is a natural topic to dissect in detail after my previous article about cloud disaster recovery and business continuity. I, too, am concerned by the variety of data…
Cisco Unified Computing System Value: A Customer’s Perspective
For those who do not know me, I’ve been blogging since April 2010. My primary subject has been Cisco UCS and everything around it. Now, when I say “everything around itâ€, I really mean “everything around it as it pertains to my organizationâ€. If you want to read a lot,…
Virtualizing the PCIe bus with Aprius
One of the vendors that presented during Gestalt IT’s Tech Field day 2010 in San Jose was Aprius (http://gestaltit.com/field-day/) (http://www.aprius.com/.) Aprius’s product virtualizes the PCIe I/O bus and pushes that PCIe traffic over 10GE to the server. In Aprius’s model you have an Aprius appliance that houses multiple off-the-shelf PCIe…
Disaster Recovery and the Cloud
It goes without saying that modern business relies on information technology. As a result, it is essential that operations personnel consider the business impact of outages and plan accordingly. As an illustration, Virgin Blue recently experienced a twenty-hour outage in its reservation system that resulted in losses of up to…