If I told you that enterprise IT organizations are playing the game “Guess How Many Jelly Beans Are in The Jar” with their Virtual Machines (VMs), would you call me crazy? Image provided by: cbgrfx123, Flickr.com Enterprises are under constant pressure to maximize...
Truer words were never spoken, plus he’s my boss… The reality is flash is having a huge impact on infrastructure requirements. Legacy networks were not designed to maximize the potential of flash storage, creating potential performance bottlenecks and degradation to application availability. The...
So do you take the blue pill or the red pill? You take the blue pill and the story ends, you wake up in the data center believing in the fantasy where FCoE and Infiniband take over the world, hyperconverged solves all your problems, and hardware is irrelevant. You take the red pill, you stay in...
Does size matter in the data center? With Cisco’s launch of the 9718, I am reminded of what it’s like to shop at Costco. You are surrounded by enormous versions of products that you don’t necessarily want or need. Who needs a jar of mayonnaise when you can get a gallon vat of mayonnaise? Why...
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EMC is redefining what it means to deliver solutions for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Dictionary.com defines a solution as “ the act of solving a problem, question, etc .” More often, it’s an overused marketing term in IT that implies a holistic approach to solving a fundamental...
What a week this is turning out to be in Las Vegas. I am jazzed coming into the IBM Edge2014 event and our Platinum sponsorship. I might be dating myself now but what is going on in the industry today is an inflection point much like that back in 1998, when shared storage for the...
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to networking and cloud? It probably isn’t Fibre Channel. As far back as 2000, a various industry experts have been predicting the death of Fibre Channel . Sometimes it has been an industry luminary like Bob Metcalfe , inventor of...
In my blog last Wednesday , I wrote about why Brocade is changing the way we talk about Fibre Channel, moving from a speed-based naming convention to a new generation-based name—Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel. When we introduced our Gen 5 Fibre Channel product line in 2011, there...
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