J Metz

Sr. Product Manager

Data Center Group

J Metz - the man with the funny-spelled name - is a Product Manager Cisco's Data Center Group. Recently, the primary focus of his work was involved in the promotion, evangelizing, and development of FCoE and Fibre Channel products and technology in the Data Center, both in and out of Cisco.

Now, his role has expanded to include a broader aspect of the Cisco portfolio, including SDN and Programmability. Data Centers are constantly evolving, and so is the bigger picture.

Driving forward with a passion for innovation and raising the technology bar to the next human level, J is committed to providing clarity among the clanging gongs, quality amidst the clutter. Additionally, J sets goals for promoting the understanding of solutions that have real-world impact: driving costs down, productivity up, and pushing the envelope of getting things done.

J received his Ph.D from the University of Georgia and has worked as a university professor and entrepreneur before turning to the corporate world.

Articles

DATA CENTER

J Metz

Thoughts and Observations: Software Defined Storage

10 min read

Last week I had the rare pleasure of being able to attend a storage conference (rare in the sense that I usually am one of the speakers, rather than one of the attendees). It was SNIA’s Storage Developer’s Conference, and like most events there were both things that were interesting and worthwhile, and things that […]

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J Metz

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part IV: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

4 min read

In the past articles we’ve talked about doing distance extension for SANs, focusing first on building the physical elements that are required, before moving on to how Fibre Channel can be extended using buffer credits. In this article we’re going to talk about how it is best to think of extending Fibre Channel over Ethernet […]

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J Metz

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part III – Fibre Channel

5 min read

In Napkin Dialogues fashion, we learn about how Fibre Channel is used in long-distance situations.

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J Metz

Storage Distance by Protocol, Part II – Physical Layer

9 min read

In the second part of the FibreChannel and FCoE distance series, we learn about how the physical layer is critical for understanding storage distances before we ever get to the protocol.

DATA CENTER

J Metz

Storage Distance by Protocol – FC, FCoE, and FCIP, Part I

7 min read

Understand how distance intersects with the choice of Fibre Channel, FCoE, FCIP, and iSCSI storage protocols.

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J Metz

Fibre Channel Standards, Speeds and Feeds, and Generation “X”

8 min read

Okay, I have a confession to make. I’ve been somewhat amused by Brocade’s recent “Gen 5” Fibre Channel campaign. After all, the idea that “we’re going to simply call 16G Fibre Channel something other than 16G Fibre Channel and pretend that people will not figure out that it’s really just 16G Fibre Channel” is, well, amusing!