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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Inter-Fabric Traffic in UCS
It’s been a while since my last post, time sure flies when you’re bouncing all over the place busy as hell. I’ve been invited to Tech Field Day next week and need to get back in the swing of things so here goes. In order for Cisco’s Unified Computing System…
Shakespearean Guest Post
I got all Hamlet with my guest post on Thomas Jones blog, check it out to address ‘To blade or not to blade.’ http://www.niketown588.com/2010/09/to-blade-or-not-to-blade.html Related posts: Post defining VN-Link My Recent Guest Spot on The Cloudcast (.NET) Podcast My First Podcast: ‘Coffee With Thomas’ Collapsing Server Management Points with UCS…
Technical Deep Dive
Why Cisco UCS is my ‘A-Game’ Server Architecture
A-Game: When I discuss my A-Game it’s my go to hardware vendor for a specific data center component. For example I have an A-Game platform for: Storage SAN LAN (access Layer LAN specifically, you don’t want me near your aggregation, core or WAN) Servers and Blades (traditionally this has been…