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.
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Driving Digital Transformation
Driving Digital Transformation “Digital, Digitization, Digital, Digital, Digital Transformation. There, I’ve hit my mandatory quota of 5 digital mentions for my presentation, now we can get to something interesting.†That was my opening line at a large data center and cloud conference in Rome. It wasn’t the one I’d planned,…
Building a Private Cloud
Private clouds are currently one of the most popular concepts in cloud computing. They promise the flexibility of cloud infrastructures without sacrificing the control of owning and maintaining your own data center. For a definition of cloud architectures see my previous blog on Cloud Types (http://www.definethecloud.net/?p=109.) Private clouds are an…
Something up Brocade’s Sleeve, and it looks Good
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