I recently realized that I, like a lot of the data center industry, have completely forgotten about Brocade recently. There has been little talked about on their FCoE front, Fibre Channel Front, or CNAs. Cisco and HP have been dominating social media with blade and FCoE battles, but I haven’t…
Category: Quick Thoughts
Geekgasm
So far this week at VMworld has been fantastic. VMware definitely throws one of the best industry events for us geeks that really want to talk shop. There’s definitely a fair share of marketing fluff, but if you want to talk bits and bytes the sessions and people are here…
The Difference Between ‘Foothold’ and ‘Lock-In’
There is always a lot of talk within IT marketing around vendor ‘lock-in’. This is most commonly found within competitive marketing, i.e. ‘Product X from Company Y creates lock-in causing you to purchase all future equipment from them. In some cases lock-in definitely exists, in other cases what you really…
Bacon And Eggs as a Service (BAEaaS) at VMworld
Yeah I know the ‘and’ between bacon and eggs should be lower case but that just looks silly, let’s move on 😉 BAEaaS is a recovery tweetup following the previous nights festivities. It was originally scheduled for Tuesday but due to popular demand has been moved to Wednesday (mainly because…
Dell, Backing the Right Horse in the Wrong Race
With Dell’s announced acquisition of 3par I’ve been pondering the question of what it is they’re thinking. I’ve been scouring the blogs looking for an answer and there is none that resonates well with me. Most of what I find states they picked a good horse and that the business…
10 Things to Know About Cisco UCS
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/. Related posts: Cisco unified Computing System (UCS) High-Level Overview Why Cisco UCS…
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…
How Emulex Broke Out of the ‘Card Pusher’ Box
A few years back when my primary responsibility was architecting server, blade, SAN, and virtualization solutions for customers I selected the appropriate HBA based on the following rule: Whichever (Qlogic or Emulex) is less expensive today through the server OEM I’m using. I had no technical or personal preference for…
FCoTR a Storage Revolution
As the industry has rapidly standardized and pushed adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) there continue to be many skeptics. Many Fibre Channel gurus balk at the idea of Ethernet being capable of guaranteeing the right level of lossless delivery and performance required for the SCSI data their disks…
Why Cloud is as ‘Green’ As It Gets
I stumbled across a document from Greenpeace citing cloud for additional power draws and the need for more renewable energy (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/make-it-green-cloud-computing/.) This is one of a series I’ve been noticing from the organization bastardizing IT for its effect on the environment and chastising companies for new data centers. These articles…