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Dell, Backing the Right Horse in the Wrong Race

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

With Dellâ€™s announced acquisition of 3par Iâ€™ve been pondering the question of what it is theyâ€™re thinking.Â Iâ€™ve been scouring the blogs looking for an answer and there is none that resonates well with me.Â Most of what I find states they picked a good horse and that the business behind buying a horse to […]

SMT, Matrix and Vblock: Architectures for Private Cloud

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 15, 2010

Cloud computing environments provide enhanced scalability and flexibility to IT organizations.Â Many options exist for building cloud strategies, public, private etc.Â For many companies private cloud is an attractive option because it allows them to maintain full visibility and control of their IT systems.Â Private clouds can also be further enhanced by merging private cloud […]

Why You’re Ready to Create a Private Cloud

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

Iâ€™m catching up on my reading and ran into David Linthicumâ€™s â€˜Why you're not ready to create a private cloudâ€™ (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/why-youre-not-ready-create-private-cloud-458.) Itâ€™s a great article and points out a major issue with private-cloud adoption â€“ internal expertise. The majority of data center teams donâ€™t have the internal expertise required to execute effectively on private-cloud architectures. […]

Networking Showdown: UCS vs. HP Virtual Connect (Updated)

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 10, 2010

Note: I have made updates to reflect that Virtual Connect is two words, and technical changes to explain another method of network configuration within Virtual Connect that prevents the port blocking described below.Â Many thanks to the Ken Henault at HPÂ who graciously walked me through the corrections, and beat them into my head until I […]

10 Things to Know About Cisco UCS

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 5, 2010

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: Learning from FaceBook's failures Building a Private Cloud FlexFabric – Small Step, Right Direction Support […]

FlexFabric – Small Step, Right Direction

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 3, 2010

Note: I've added a couple of corrections below thanks to Stuart Miniman at Wikibon (http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/FCoE_Standards)Â See the comments for more. Iâ€™ve been digging a little more into the HP FlexFabric announcements in order to wrap my head around the benefits and positioning.Â Iâ€™m a big endorser of a single network for all applications, LAN, SAN, […]

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