I enjoyed a great conversation with Netapp’s Vaughn Stewart and Cisco’s Abhinav Joshi about FlexPod last week during Cisco Live 2011. Check out the video below.
Blades are Not the Future
Kevin Houston, Founder of Blades Made Simple and all around server and blade rocket surgeon, posted an excellent thought provoking article titled ‘Why Blade Servers Will Be the Core of Future Data Centers ( http://bladesmadesimple.com/2011/10/why-blade-servers-will-be-the-core-of-future-data-centers/.) The article is his predictions and thoughts on the way in which the server industry…
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Your Technology Sunk Cost is KILLING you
I recently bought a Nest Hello to replace my perfectly good, near new, Ring Video Doorbell. The experience got me thinking about sunk cost in IT and how significantly it strangles the business and costs companies ridiculous amounts of money. When I first saw the Nest Hello, I had no…
Build For IT Nirvana
In many data centers large and small there is a history of making short-term decisions that affect long-term design. These may be based on putting out immediate fires, such as rolling out a new application, expanding an old one, or replacing failed hardware. They may also be made by short-sighted…