Many vendors are touting the benefits of IEEE DCB, FCoE, CEE, DCE, Unified Fabrics, and many other marketing monikers for equipment consolidation. Each component of the technology is interesting, but maybe no more so than the Converged Network Adapter itself. …Read more.
Posted by Frank D'Agostino on October 23, 2009 at 09:07AM
On my previous blog post “What exactly is a Nexus 4000?” there were many questions/comments around OEM blade server vendors and details of Nexus 4000 Series Blade Switches . Today, IBM announced the details of the Cisco Nexus 4000 blade switch for their …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 20, 2009 at 05:27PM
OK so first of all, I’d like to thank all the folks here who took time to post extremely useful comments on my previous blog “ So What Exactly is a Nexus 4000?” . I’m glad to see that there is …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on October 08, 2009 at 09:57AM
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) seems to be a popular topic for the last couple of weeks. There have been a number of useful posts that I have ran across recently that I thought I would share: Nigel Poulton …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on September 28, 2009 at 10:19AM
Join us for a live Internet TV broadcast featuring our special guest Derek Masseth, Senior Director for Infrastructure Services at the University of Arizona, who will share his experience how the university united its data center using Fibre Channel over …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on September 25, 2009 at 09:17AM
So, we continue to see traction with customers for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) because IT organizations are beginning to understand both immediate benefits through reduced capital and operating costs (a big incentive in today’s economy) and the longer term …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on July 21, 2009 at 09:23PM
Today, IBM announced an extended agreement with Cisco to resell the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch with support for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as part of its Dynamic Infrastructure solutions for the data center. Although IBM is not the only …Read more.
Posted by Pamela Ferrill on July 21, 2009 at 09:01PM
Couple of days after my first meeting in San Francisco with Stuart Miniman, EMC Technologist CTO Office and Kash Shaikh, Cisco Senior Manager Data Center Solutions, I invited both of them for another conversation on FCoE. This time they focus …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 06, 2009 at 03:25PM
At Cisco Live I had the opportunity to organize a meeting with Stuart Miniman -EMC Technologist CTO Office - and Kash Shaikh -Senior Manager, Cisco Data Center Solutions- to talk about FCoe Standardization and the impact on the market . …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on July 01, 2009 at 10:02AM
Cisco Data Center Solutions James Urquhart, Chris Hoff and EMC Technologist Stuart Miniman share their first impressions at Cisco Live 2009 If you are not in San Francisco today, you can watch John Chambers key notes, as well as the …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on June 30, 2009 at 05:37AM
So, after a lot of hard work by a number of individual across the industry, I am happy to say that on June 3rd, the FC-BB-5 working group of T11 has completed its work and unanimously approved a final standard …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 04, 2009 at 06:25PM
Intel is a critical Cisco partner, but also a large and innovative manufacturing customer. Diane Bryant, CIO Intel, was on Cisco booth at EMC World, in Orlando Florida, to witness the large number of visitors interested by our Unified Computing …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 22, 2009 at 07:49AM
Part 1 of a series of four interviews with Cisco and EMC experts in Storage Networking. Bill Marozas, Cisco Data Center Solutions Marketing, talks about the Cisco MDS 9000 , and what customers are asking him at EMC World this …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 20, 2009 at 10:21AM
Cisco will be present at EMC World 2009 and on the web at “Live at EMC World” Bill Marozas ,Cisco Director Storage Networking, took this opportunity to ask Chuck Hollis, Vice -President Global Marketing, and well known EMC blogger tough …Read more.
Posted by Didier Rombaut on May 15, 2009 at 12:40AM
In the last post I talked about the importance of designing a platform vs. a box and the benefits associated to that choice. Now I’d like to spend some time going into more of the architectural details that make the …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on April 03, 2009 at 01:13AM
When discussing unified fabric with customers these days, the conversation is increasingly shifting from “why?” to “how?” Here are some of the slides I will use to brief customers on the “how”. The important thing to note is that the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 31, 2009 at 01:24AM
Designing a (successful) product is always tricky; first of all, you need to properly define and wisely select your product requirements. But whatever market segment you are in, your product requirements will change over time. No matter how good you …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 16, 2009 at 01:46AM
Since there are folks out there that would have you believe we will see cold fusion before we see a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard, I thought it would be a good time to provide an update, especially because …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 12, 2009 at 11:52PM
As I read about forced industry consolidations and our competitor’s ambitious plans to catch up with Cisco to deliver Unified Fabric years from now, it makes me realize the power and effect of Cisco Unified Fabric vision. While these companies …Read more.
Posted by Kash Shaikh on March 12, 2009 at 10:43PM
Over the week-end I was reading this article on unified fabric and storage and in particular a sentence surprised me: The likelihood is that storage arrays will be linked to the Nexus in this scheme by Ethernet and not Fibre …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on March 12, 2009 at 05:59PM
I’ve been asked a lot about why would Cisco build a blade server recently. I don’t know where these rumors and speculation come from. But notwithstanding I thought I would write out the answers I usually give. 1) Cisco is …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 12, 2009 at 11:33AM
Here is a quick update from Sidney on the progress with the Nexus and unified fabric deployment in Cisco’s production data centers. Beyond Sidney’s update, you can get more details on the project here.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 08, 2009 at 09:35PM
I have to admit that its gratifying to see our competitors validate decisions we made a couple of years ago with regards to the need for a unified fabric in the data center. After dismissing FCoE or worse, completely missing …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 06, 2009 at 12:31AM
So, as I have mentioned before and chatted about with Sidney, we have the Nexus 5000 and unified fabric in production in our Mountain View data center. We are running the News@Cisco website over it as well as some back-office …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 27, 2009 at 09:51AM
Stuart Miniman from EMC leads a whiteboard ‘chalk-talk’ on FibreChannel over Ethernet. An important part of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 initiative FCoE is continuing to be embraced by an ever larger vendor and now customer community. With over 250 customers …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on December 18, 2008 at 08:34AM
We recently turned up FCoE (on the Nexus 5000) in one of our production data centers. Here is an interview with Sidney discussing the results and what we learned during the process.
Posted by Omar Sultan on November 17, 2008 at 09:25AM
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