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
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
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
Since Cisco first introduced the concept of oversubscribed Fibre Channel modules in the storage networking industry with the MDS 9000 Family, there has been quite a bit of confusion between oversubscribed and blocking architectures, often incorrectly using the two terms …Read more.
Posted by Paolo Perazzo on May 14, 2009 at 09:18AM
Many industry pundits have missed the proverbial forest for the trees this week. IBM’s recent announcement in which they detail the broadening of their joint Brocade/Foundry GTM strategy has been misinterpreted as an anti-Cisco strategy. In reality, it’s an anti-HP …Read more.
Posted by Bill Marozas on April 29, 2009 at 10:28AM
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
I thought I would switch gears a bit and touch on one of the other pillars of the data center. Our storage environment continues to be a great story to tell and continues to be a source of interest with …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 26, 2009 at 11:11PM
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
The Virtual Machine is like Neo in The Matrix. The IT world shapes itself around the VM. Remember the ‘Classic 3-Tier network architecture with Layer-2 and Layer-3 segmentation, a standard address hierarchy, and consistent policies????, Burn it. Throw it away. …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on March 14, 2009 at 12:59PM
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
It may seem overly simple but generally speaking consolidation can be a great way to reduce total energy use in your data center over a given period. The implications of implementing unified fabrics from our Cisco Nexus line is no …Read more.
Posted by Rob Aldrich on March 11, 2009 at 10:21AM
I had an interesting Twitter conversation with Robert Scoble over the past week or so. Robert asserts that, “you must have missed the financial crisis. This is forcing TONS of companies to get rid of data centers or minimize them.” …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on February 03, 2009 at 02:10PM
There isn’t a technology customer in the world right now not focused on ROI but small businesses care more than most about getting a quick, tangible benefit to their business from a technology investment. Cisco small and medium business partners …Read more.
Posted by David McCulloch on January 27, 2009 at 11:00AM
Most governments around the world realize small businesses are the engines of innovation. It’s why so many of their stimulus packages have been designed to help small businesses weather the downturn and evolve, create new ideas and generate new business …Read more.
Posted by David McCulloch on January 26, 2009 at 06:17PM
As Padmasree stated in her blog post on Unified Computing, “Yes.” We are in the middle of a series of disruptions, both technological and economic. On the technology front there is an increasing shift to using virtualization technologies to extend …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on January 20, 2009 at 11:30AM
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
“Desperate times call for desperate measures”. —Not sure who said this originally, but some attribute it to Guy Fawkes in 1605. There was an article I was just reading on Data Center Knowledge that got me thinking a bit. In …Read more.
Posted by Douglas Gourlay on October 11, 2008 at 01:08PM
A few months ago, one of our switching competitors started telling customers that our Catalyst switch was going to be put out to pasture, which, of course, was not even close to reality. Well, now it seems that the new …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on October 03, 2008 at 10:18AM
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