For the last several months there has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere and Twitter about FCoE and whether full scale deployment requires QCN. There are two camps on this: FCoE does not require QCN for proper operation with scale. FCoE does require QCN for proper operation and…
Tag: HP
The Difference Between ‘Foothold’ and ‘Lock-In’
There is always a lot of talk within IT marketing around vendor ‘lock-in’. This is most commonly found within competitive marketing, i.e. ‘Product X from Company Y creates lock-in causing you to purchase all future equipment from them. In some cases lock-in definitely exists, in other cases what you really…
SMT, Matrix and Vblock: Architectures for Private Cloud
Cloud computing environments provide enhanced scalability and flexibility to IT organizations. Many options exist for building cloud strategies, public, private etc. For many companies private cloud is an attractive option because it allows them to maintain full visibility and control of their IT systems. Private clouds can also be further…
FlexFabric – Small Step, Right Direction
Note: I’ve added a couple of corrections below thanks to Stuart Miniman at Wikibon (http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/FCoE_Standards) See the comments for more. I’ve been digging a little more into the HP FlexFabric announcements in order to wrap my head around the benefits and positioning. I’m a big endorser of a single network…
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…
Objectivity
I came across a blog recently that peaked my interest. The post was from Nate at TechOpsGuys (http://bit.ly/9PxZQV) and it purports to explain the networking deficiencies of UCS. The problem with the posts explanation is that it’s based off of The Tolly Report on HP vs. UCS (http://bit.ly/bRQW2g) which has…