Chocolate or Vanilla Clouds?
For the most part, any discussion about the use of public and private clouds has been an “either or” proposition as exemplified by this “tech debate” with dueling IT executives making their best case...
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Postcard from Vegas – EMC World & Interop 2011
EMC World The intersection of cloud and big data was the theme of this year’s EMC World, where more than 6,500 IT professionals descended on the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. Continuing our 15-year...
View ArticleWhat I Didn’t Learn at Interop
As best as I can tell, I was one of about five people in the networking industry who weren’t at Interop this year. That’s because until about three weeks before the event, I was working on servers:...
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The Business Case for Changing Technology
Jon Oltsik at ESG wrote a post for Network World titled “Is Ethernet Storage On the Horizon“. He provides survey data on customer plans to deploy FCoE storage. I think there is another way to view the...
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Losing my (Networking) Religion
It was just a couple months ago that I was seen toting my Brocade lunchbox and helping to promote the new 16Gbps Fibre Channel products as well as, of course, Ethernet fabrics. Since then I’ve made a...
View ArticleSymantec, Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud
Surveys about virtualization and cloud computing-adoption trends and plans are practically a dime-a-dozen these days. (OK, that’s not entirely true – it’s a lot more than that to commission a decent...
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A Note from AJ, or Where’s the Beef?
With the rush that always seems to arrive with the holidays, and after taking some time off, December blew by. Then, at the first of the year, I moved into a new job with a group that integrates...
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