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Cloud Types

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on April 25, 2010

Within the discussion of cloud computing there are several concepts that get tossed around and mixed up. Part of the reason for this is that there are several cloud architecture types. While there are tons of types and sub-types discussed I'll focus on four major deployment models here: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Community Cloud and […]

Post defining VN-Link

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on April 19, 2010

For the Cisco fans or those curious about Cisco'sÂ VN-Link see my post on my colleagues Unified Computing Blog: http://bit.ly/dqIIQK. Related posts: Learning from FaceBook's failures Building a Private Cloud Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage 10 Things to Know About Cisco UCS The Organizational Challenge

Fibre Channel over Ethernet

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

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a protocol standard ratified in June of 2009. FCoE provides the tools for encapsulation of Fibre Channel (FC) in 10 Gigabit Ethernet frames. The purpose of FCoE is to allow consolidation of low-latency, high performance FC networks onto 10GE infrastructures. This allows for a single network/cable infrastructure which greatly […]

What is the biggest barrier to your move into the cloud?

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

Take the poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/83955/edtrt Related posts: Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage Welcome to the New Site! The Organizational Challenge Building a Private Cloud Why You’re Ready to Create a Private Cloud

What's Stopping cloud?

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

So with everyone talking about cloud and all of the benefits of cloud computing why isn't everyone diving in?Â The barriers to adoption can be classified into three major categories: Personal, Technical, and Business. Personal Reasons: Personal barriers to cloud adoption are broad ranging and can be quite difficult to overcome.Â Many IT professionals have […]

Data Center Bridging Exchange

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on April 7, 2010

Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) is one of the components of the DCB standards. These standards offer enhancements to standard ethernet which are backwards compatible with traditional Ethernet and provide support for I/O Consolidation (http://www.definethecloud.net/?p=18.) The three purposes of DCBX are: Discovery of DCB capability: The ability for DCB capable devices to discover and identify […]

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