Comments on: VIDEO: CTO Response to Questions on Unified Computing http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/ Thu, 23 May 2013 08:33:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: fusier http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-12959 fusier Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:30:33 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-12959 hi !i want create data and calcul center

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]]> By: Gaurav somani http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-13073 Gaurav somani Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:11:42 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-13073 Good one. I think Cisco is going to invest a huge amount of money in unified computing. Is there any white paper or official document available on the same?Gaurav SomaniGraduate student, DA-IICTIndia.

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]]> By: Kevin Apte http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-13058 Kevin Apte Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:20 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-13058 I think Cisco is on the right track, and demonstrating how it is a visionary rather than a follower. By rights, this is something HP should find easier to do, as they have many of the components of the IT and SOA Stack with them.

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]]> By: Ricky Ho http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-13059 Ricky Ho Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:12:20 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-13059 I always expect more offerings from Cisco in cloud computing because
etwork”" is the “”cloud”" itself.Here is my wish list of these offering … Forgive my ignorance if any of these has already been provided, and let me know where I can find more info.1) On-demand bandwidth provisioning===========================I want to temporarily upgrade my bandwidth so I can upload my data faster. And then downgrade my bandwidth after I use. And I just pay for the bandwidth that I have used.2) Load balancer that can cope with dynamic auto-scaling========================================I know some load balancer can deal with component crashes by periodically PING each endpoint and take them out of the pool if it doesn’t respond. However, in cloud computing, auto-scaling may bring up a lot of new machine instances and shrink them according to work-load fluctuation which will happen more frequently than crash cases. So I am not sure load balancer is design for dynamic scaling envrionemnt where the changes happen more frequent. For example, I am not sure how a newly started component join the pool. Is it just sending a HTTP command to the load balancer or do I need to modify the config file and reboot the load balancer ?3) Firewall that can cope with secure talkback from the cloud into the data center=======================================================Not sure if this is the firewall or the secure gateway ‘s responsibility. Since machine instance in the cloud are very transient and has a volatile network configuration, how to recognize that they come from the same organization may be a challenge. One way is to push some “”credentials”" to the machine instance so the data center can recognize them when they talk back. I guess Networking company may have a better solution.4) Latency sensitive data/compute placement and routing=======================================In a hybrid cloud environment where components are residing in different domains that has different security requirements, as well as latency between domain is higher, we need a layer 7 routing mechanism that is aware of these issue.a) We need a latency sensitive scheduler such that computation is moved close to the data it works onb) We need a activity sensitive data replicator such that data replicas will migrate close to their usersRgds,Ricky”

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]]> By: Miko Matsumura http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-13065 Miko Matsumura Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:10:57 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-13065 Padmasree,I find your comments here on this video and on Twitter to be inspiring.In particular, I find it intriguing to see you mentioning the integration and agility of business processes within your video on Unified Computing, we in the BPM and SOA domain are following this trend very closely.By creating a unified fabric that joins multiple layers of the stack into a single interconnected domain, you help to realize a vision for a truly network connected enterprise computing paradigm. Thanks for your leadership.my 2 cents,MikoDeputy CTO, Software AG

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]]> By: Robert Reive http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-13003 Robert Reive Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:59:02 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-13003 In 2003 Giga Research acknowledged management of Unified Computing of virtualized platforms as important and selected Platespin’s Operation Centre as most promising new product in the category of infrastructure management. Platespin Inc. was birthed in 1999 and founded in 2000 in Toronto, Canada. The company first released Platespin Operation Centre POC”" in 2001 on 911, the company and IP barely survived the down turn, shrunk from 40+ people to 5 people, then split the POC IP into 3 pieces as island products and came back selling through small innovative resellers, to the point where Novell recognized Platespin’s true value and purchased Platespin onMarch 2008 for 205M US.Cisco has done a nice job of raising everyone’s awareness that Unified Computing is long over due, its not new in concept, mainframes offered this 30 years ago but in more or less as a centralized form, Unified Computing is new for distributed computing in the sense of linking the distirbuted islands of virtualization together in a main stream way over what is now truly the world wide web.The software management technology to achieve Unified Computing across distributed virtualized islands of storage, network and computing has been invented by small companies like Platespin,Jareva etc in the 1999 to 2001 time frame.We can thank 911 for the initial delay of Unified Computing for distributed IT to the main stream , and we can also thank the current credit crisis for really waking everyone up on this very important topic.Unified Computing over distributed virtualized infrastructure is long over due, and its great to see th big powers like Cisco in the industry get behind it.Robert Reive, Inventor of Platespin Operation Centre, former first Chairman and CTO of Platespin Inc. 1999-2002″

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]]> By: Shibin Zhang http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-12721 Shibin Zhang Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:18:21 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-12721 Ken: Could you list all the benefits of infrastructure orchestration”"? I will list all the benefit of green IT. We can then compare whose list is longer.I have another suggestion. Since this issue is between SUN and me, could we move this discussion to SUN space?”

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]]> By: Ken Oestreich http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-12696 Ken Oestreich Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:26:36 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-12696 Jason: Thrilled to see the focus shifting from virtualization to infrastructure (BTW, remember me from Sun?).Unified computing”" or “”infrastructure orchestration”" (as we at Egenera like to call it) is the icing-on-the-cake for flexible, dynamic data centers. Abstract-away the I/O, network and storage connectivity, and servers become incredibly flexible resources. Plus, operating/administrative costs drop by practically an order of magnitude.I fully believe that infrastructure management is the perfect complement to virtual or physical environments.”

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]]> By: francisco http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-12658 francisco Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:50:34 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-12658 This was very informative and I would agree, a very good focus and path to walk towards in the future. Especially with enhanced cost and power saving initiatives well underway amongst most companies today.

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]]> By: Shibin Zhang http://blogs.cisco.com/news/video_cto_response_to_questions_on_unified_computing/#comment-12584 Shibin Zhang Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:43:12 +0000 http://blogs.cisco.com/can_you_help_me_write_this_paper#comment-12584 It takes courage for a software developer to face the big Cisco.1. I am not a hackerI received an e-mail this morning from “cisco-us@emessage.cisco.com” with following sentence high-lighted:“Carders (hackers) are no different than other criminals – they look for the most vulnerable victim.”Following is my response to this e-mail:“I am not interested in this seminar. First, I am not afraid of hackers because I already have McAfee installed. Second, I am not hacker. If I have different opinions, I always talk to people face to face. I personally dislike people attacking from behind and attacking without a reason.”In fact, in one of my e-mail to my old friends, I said:“I have a couple of dreams. Promoting green IT is one of them, which is also the highest priority on my list. I have put in efforts for years. My goal is to let big IT players be aware of green IT and start doing something. I am not trying to bring down Cisco (in fact I can’t and I don’t want to). In stead, I want to tell them that I can bring them new business opportunities. It’s actually a win-win.”2. What’s my version of next generation ITMy goal is simple: 1) make it green, 2) solve end-user’s problems and save their money, 3) give the vendors new opportunities of making money. With 2) and 3), promoting green IT becomes “telling them” instead of “pushing them”. Following is the summary of my version:2.1 High performance, high density and low power consumption hardware: saving energy, saving space while improving robustness and performance.2.2 Hardware consolidation: less boxes, less wires since each box or wire can do more things. The goal is to improve each hardware uint efficiency and make the data center simpler.2.3 Data center automation: reducing administration cost and reducing human introduced errors. Does “reducing administration cost” means laying off system administrators then? My answer is:”Don’t worry. When this technology is applied, we have already get out of recession. BTW, since there will be more data, there will be more data centers.”I might write my own blog with more details in the future.3. Some opinions about virtualizationServer virtualization: It’s one of the most important elements of next generation. However, if you claim that every server must have a VM, I can’t agree. For low CPU computation, it’s a good idea to consolidate several servers into one with VM. For high CPU computation, I like the tradition straightforward computation. For higher performance computation, we have to go the other direction – clustering.Storage virtualization: At storage virtualization peak time, I said:”The storage virtualization derived applications are more valuable than storage virtualization itself.” I also gave an example how to use storage virtualization to achieve non-disruptive back up and quick disk recovery.Networking virtualization: VLAN??? It’s present, not future.4. Green IT vs. virtualization, who is the next generation?It’s obvious: green IT. Server virtualization is one of the most important sub-set though.5. Why my version of next generation data center is better than Cisco’s?One reason is enough. With my version, Cisco can produce “next generation green Ethernet switch” and “next generation green router”. With their own version, they have to move towards “next generation virtualization Ethernet switch” and “next generation virtualization router”.

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