Joe wrote an excellent guest blog on my website called To Blade Or Not To Blade and offered me the same opportunity. Being a huge fan of Joe’s I’m honored. One of my favorites blog posts is his Data Center 101: Server Virtualization. Joe explained the benefits of server virtualization in the data…
Tag: Emulex
How Emulex Broke Out of the ‘Card Pusher’ Box
A few years back when my primary responsibility was architecting server, blade, SAN, and virtualization solutions for customers I selected the appropriate HBA based on the following rule: Whichever (Qlogic or Emulex) is less expensive today through the server OEM I’m using. I had no technical or personal preference for…
HP’s FlexFabric
There were quite a few announcements this week at the HP Technology Forum in Vegas. Several of these announcements were extremely interesting, of these the ones that resonated the most with me were: Superdome 2: I’m not familiar with the Superdome 1 nor am I in any way an expert…