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An End User’s Cloud Security Question

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on December 22, 2010

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 â€˜Isnâ€™t my data safer on my systems?â€™ I thought this would be a great question to open up to the wider community. Does anyone have any thoughts or feedback […]

Redundancy in Data Storage: Part 1: RAID Levels

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on December 13, 2010

I recently read Joe Onisickâ€™s piece, â€œHave 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.Â I, too, am concerned by the variety of data redundancy architectures used in enterprise […]

Cisco Unified Computing System Value: A Customerâ€™s Perspective

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on December 8, 2010

For those who do not know me, Iâ€™ve been blogging since April 2010.Â My primary subject has been Cisco UCS and everything around it.Â Now, when I say â€œeverything around itâ€, I really mean â€œeverything around it as it pertains to my organizationâ€.Â If you want to read a lot, you can check out my […]

Virtualizing the PCIe bus with Aprius

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on December 6, 2010

One of the vendors that presented during Gestalt ITâ€™s Tech Field day 2010 in San Jose was Aprius (http://gestaltit.com/field-day/) (http://www.aprius.com/.) Apriusâ€™s product virtualizes the PCIe I/O bus and pushes that PCIe traffic over 10GE to the server. In Apriusâ€™s model you have an Aprius appliance that houses multiple off-the-shelf PCIe cards and a proprietary Aprius […]

Disaster Recovery and the Cloud

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on December 1, 2010

It goes without saying that modern business relies on information technology.Â As a result, it is essential that operations personnel consider the business impact of outages and plan accordingly.Â As an illustration, Virgin Blue recently experienced a twenty-hour outage in its reservation system that resulted in losses of up to $20 million dollars.Â The cloud […]

Intel’s Betting the Storage I/O Farm on the CPU

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 13, 2010

I had the privilege of attending Tech Field Day 4 in San Jose this week as a delegate thanks to Stephen Foskett and Gestalt IT. It was a great event and a lot of information was covered in two days of presentations. Iâ€™ll be discussing the products and vendors that sponsored the event over […]

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