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…
Tag: Servers
Technology Passion
The May 24th IDC report on server market share by the IDC validated a technology I’ve been passionate about for some time; Cisco unified Computing System (UCS.) For the first time since UCS’s launch two years ago Cisco reported server earnings to IDC with amazing result – #3 in global…
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…
Data Center 101: Server Virtualization
Virtualization is a key piece of modern data center design. Virtualization occurs on many devices within the data center, conceptually virtualization is the ability to create multiple logical devices from one physical device. We’ve been virtualizing hardware for years: VLANs and VRFs on the network, Volumes and LUNs on storage,…
Data Center 101: Server Systems
As the industry moves deeper and deeper into virtualization, automation, and cloud architectures it forces us as engineers to break free of our traditional silos. For years many of us were able to do quite well being experts in one discipline with little to no knowledge in another. Cloud computing,…
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…
Virtualization
While not a new concept virtualization has hit the main stream over the last few years and become a uncontrollable buzz word driven by VMware, and other server virtualization platforms. Virtualization has been around in many forms for much longer than some realizes, things like Logical partitions (LPAR) on IBM…