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VXLAN Deep Dive

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 6, 2012

Iâ€™ve been spending my free time digging into network virtualization and network overlays.Â This is part 1 of a 2 part series, part 2 can be found here: http://www.definethecloud.net/vxlan-deep-divepart-2.Â By far the most popular virtualization technique in the data center is VXLAN.Â This has as much to do with Cisco and VMware backing the technology […]

Something up Brocade’s Sleeve, and it looks Good

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 4, 2012

Brocadeâ€™s got some new tricks up their sleeve and they look good. For far too long Brocade fought against convergence to protect its FC install base and catch up. This bled over into their Ethernet messaging and hindered market growth and comfort levels there. Overall they appeared as a company missing the next technology waves […]

The Art of Pre-Sales Part II: Showing Value

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 29, 2012

Part I of this post http://www.definethecloud.net/the-art-of-pre-sales received quite a few page views and positive feedback so I thought Iâ€™d expand on it. Last week on the Twitters I made a comment re sales engineers showing value via revenue ($$) and got a lot of feedback. I thought Iâ€™d expand on the topic. While I will […]

A Salute to Greatness

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 29, 2012

There are two things Iâ€™ve spent my life doing: being a class clown (laughed at or with is your choice) and building my career. Since I was 16 Iâ€™ve worked no less than 40 hour weeks and more consistently been immersed in IT upwards of 80. I have rarely taken time off, I typically watch […]

Support St. Jude and the Fight Against Childhood Cancer

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 17, 2012

For some time I've been looking for a charity that Define the Cloud could support. I have no desire to try and monetize my traffic through ads and clutter the content. I also get plenty of benefits from running the site and wouldnâ€™t ask for help with that. That being said I do generate decent […]

Much Ado About Something: Brocade’s Tech Day

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 13, 2012

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending Brocadeâ€™s Tech Day for Analysts and Press.Â Brocade announced the new VDX 8770, discussed some VMware announcements, as well as discussed strategy, vision and direction.Â Iâ€™m going to dig in to a few of the topics that interested me, this is no way a complete recap. First in […]

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