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Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 28, 2011

You've been driving a perfectly suitable family sedan for the last ten years. It's highly rated by all the gurus who rate such things; it's safe, reliable and gets acceptable gas mileage. You've never loved it in anyway, although you did have a moment of pure capitalist joy when you drove it off the lot, […]

Hypervisors are not the Droids You Seek

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 28, 2011

Long ago, in a data center far, far away, we as an industry moved away from big iron and onto commodity hardware. That move brought with it many advantages, such as cost and flexibility. The change also brought along with it higher hardware and operating system software failure rates. This change in application stability forced […]

Server Networking With gen 2 UCS Hardware

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 22, 2011

** this post has been slightly edited thanks to feedback from Sean McGee** In previous posts Iâ€™ve outlined: How UCS server failover occurs from a network perspective: http://www.definethecloud.net/ucs-server-failover How Inter-fabric traffic is handled in End-Host mode: http://www.definethecloud.net/inter-fabric-traffic-in-ucs How inter-fabric traffic is handled in switch mode: http://www.definethecloud.net/inter-fabric-traffic-in-ucspart-ii If youâ€™re not familiar with UCS networking I suggest […]

Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 21, 2011

One of the key decisions in architecting an infrastructure for private cloud is selecting a storage platform for the deployment. Storage is a key component of the infrastructure and will play a major role in the overall performance of the private cloud. The storage decision carries additional weight due to its larger investment and typically […]

WWT's Geek Day 2012

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 15, 2011

A BrightTALK Channel Related posts: Why NetApp is my ‘A-Game’ Storage Architecture Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage Virtualization What is the biggest barrier to your move into the cloud? What the iPad means to cloud computing

Build For IT Nirvana

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 5, 2011

In many data centers large and small there is a history of making short-term decisions that affect long-term design. These may be based on putting out immediate fires, such as rolling out a new application, expanding an old one, or replacing failed hardware. They may also be made by short-sighted or near-sighted policies, or more […]

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