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Why Oracle’s 72 port 10GE switch doesn’t matter

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

I recently ran into some internal buzz about Oracleâ€™s 72 port â€˜top-of-rackâ€™ switch announcement and it peeked my interest, so I started taking a look.Â 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 does make hardware, pretty good […]

Data Center 101: Local Area Network Switching

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 21, 2010

Interestingly enough 2 years ago I couldnâ€™t even begin to post an intelligent blog on Local Area Networking 101, funny how things change. That being said I make no guarantees that this post will be intelligent in any way. Without further ado letâ€™s get into the second part of the Data Center 101 series and […]

How Emulex Broke Out of the ‘Card Pusher’ Box

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 21, 2010

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 Iâ€™m using.Â I had no technical or personal preference for one or the other.Â They […]

FCoTR a Storage Revolution

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 17, 2010

As the industry has rapidly standardized and pushed adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) there continue to be many skeptics.Â 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 need.Â IP Junkies like Greg […]

The Art of Pre-Sales

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 16, 2010

On a recent customer call being led by a vendor account manager and engineer I witnessed some key mistakes by the engineer as he presented the technology to the customer.Â None of the mistakes were glaring or show stopping but they definitely kept the conversation from having the value that was potentially there.Â That conversation […]

Data Center 101: Server Systems

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 11, 2010

As the industry moves deeper and deeper into virtualization, automation, and cloud architectures it forces us as engineers to break free of our traditional silos. For years many of us were able to do quite well being experts in one discipline with little to no knowledge in another. Cloud computing, virtualization and other current technological […]

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