Last night I posted on FCoE vs. iSCSI. This morning I picked another debate on FCoE vs. Infiniband. The post I have commented to Jerome Wendt’s “Is FCoE a diabolical plot?“I posted the following on Jerome’s blog as a reply, but I want to make sure that Cisco’s blog readers have an opportunity to learn and have an opinion on the topic as well. Read More »

Innovation in networking has always been associated with animated (sometimes religious, but who cares) debates about what’s right and what’s wrong. And it was only a matter of hours before the iSCSI vs. FCoE debate got started.This time, though, I do not believe it is a either/or type of situation, but rather an “and”… Read More »

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What a long day! At least for my team. The Unified Fabric launch and the introduction of the Cisco Nexus 5000 was a significant one for Cisco, and certainly had quite a big impact on my team. But this is not the “human” side that I wanted to talk about…One thing that has come up quite a lot in my briefings today is the human side of implementing a Unified Fabric in the Data Center, i.e. the impact that network unification would have on existing teams and ultimately on individuals. Read More »

This morning I spent some time with a collegue and friend of mine, who I deeply respect for his technical knowledge and, of course, we were discussing some of the elements of the Nexus 5000 launch that happened yesterday.He asked me a few questions, which made me realize that we will need to do a lot of work over the next couple of months to make sure that everyone, who is involved with Data Centers, has an opportunity to learn more.Hence, I decided to begin that process by sharing some hopefully useful tips with all of you. Read More »