For the Cisco fans or those curious about Cisco’s VN-Link see my post on my colleagues Unified Computing Blog: http://bit.ly/dqIIQK.
What’s the deal with Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN)
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. There are two camps on this: FCoE does not require QCN for proper operation with scale. FCoE does require QCN for proper operation and…
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Why NetApp is my ‘A-Game’ Storage Architecture
One of, if not the, most popular of my blog posts to date has been ‘Why Cisco UCS is my ‘A-Game’ Server Architecture (http://www.definethecloud.net/why-cisco-ucs-is-my-a-game-server-architecture.) In that post I describe why I lead with Cisco UCS for most consultative engagements. This follow up for storage has been a long time coming,…
It’s Our Time Down Here– “Underlays”
Recently while winding down from a long day I flipped the channel and “The Goonies†was on. I left it there thinking an old movie I’d seen a dozen times would put me to sleep quickly. As it turns out I quickly got back into it. By the time the…