I recently remembered that my site, and blog is Called Define the Cloud. That realization led me to understand that I should probably write a cloudy blog from time to time. The time is now. It’s 2018 and most, if not all of the early cloud predictions have proven to…
Category: Data Center 101
Concepts
Intent all of the things: The Power of end-to-end Intent
The tech world is buzzing with talk of intent. Intent based this, intent driven that. Let’s take a look at intent, and where we as an industry want to go with it. First, and briefly, what’s intent? Intent is fairly simple if you let it be, it’s what you want from the…
Concepts
We Live in a Multi-Cloud World: Here’s Why
It’s almost 2019 and there’s still a lot of chatter, specifically from hardware vendors, that ‘We’re moving to a multi-cloud world. This is highly erroneous. When you hear someone say things like that, what they mean is ‘we’re catching up to the rest of the world and trying to sell…
Concepts
Intent Driven Architecture Part III: Policy Assurance
Here I am finally getting around to the third part of my blog on Intent Driven Architectures, but hey, what’s a year between friends. If you missed or forgot parts I and II the links are below: Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent Intent Driven Architectures Part II: Policy Analytics…
Data Center 101: Server Virtualization
Virtualization is a key piece of modern data center design. Virtualization occurs on many devices within the data center, conceptually virtualization is the ability to create multiple logical devices from one physical device. We’ve been virtualizing hardware for years: VLANs and VRFs on the network, Volumes and LUNs on storage,…
Data Center 101: Local Area Network Switching
Interestingly enough 2 years ago I couldn’t even begin to post an intelligent blog on Local Area Networking 101, funny how things change. That being said I make no guarantees that this post will be intelligent in any way. Without further ado let’s get into the second part of the…
Data Center 101: Server Systems
As the industry moves deeper and deeper into virtualization, automation, and cloud architectures it forces us as engineers to break free of our traditional silos. For years many of us were able to do quite well being experts in one discipline with little to no knowledge in another. Cloud computing,…