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Data Center 101: Server Virtualization

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

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. Weâ€™ve been virtualizing hardware for years: VLANs and VRFs on the network, Volumes and LUNs on storage, and even our servers were […]

The Brocade FCoE Proposition

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

I recently realized that I, like a lot of the data center industry, have completely forgotten about Brocade recently.Â There has been little talked about on their FCoE front, Fibre Channel Front, or CNAs.Â Cisco and HP have been dominating social media with blade and FCoE battles, but I havenâ€™t seen much coming from Brocade.Â […]

Geekgasm

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

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. Thereâ€™s definitely a fair share of marketing fluff, but if you want to talk bits and bytes the sessions and people are here for you. Iâ€™ve had the […]

What’s the deal with Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN)

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 28, 2010

For the last several months there has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere and Twitter about FCoE and whether full scale deployment requires QCN.Â There are two camps on this: FCoE does not require QCN for proper operation with scale. FCoE does require QCN for proper operation and scale. Typically the camps break […]

The Difference Between ‘Foothold’ and ‘Lock-In’

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 26, 2010

There is always a lot of talk within IT marketing around vendor â€˜lock-in'. This is most commonly found within competitive marketing, i.e. â€˜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 have is better defined as […]

Bacon And Eggs as a Service (BAEaaS) at VMworld

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 24, 2010

Yeah I know the â€˜andâ€™ between bacon and eggs should be lower case but that just looks silly, letâ€™s move on 😉 BAEaaS is a recovery tweetup following the previous nights festivities.Â It was originally scheduled for Tuesday but due to popular demand has been moved to Wednesday (mainly because the amount of large parties […]

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