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…
Month: June 2010
Collapsing Server Management Points with UCS
I was invited to post a blog on the WWT virtualization blog, I chose to discuss Cisco Pass-Through switching with UCS. See the blog there at: http://vblog.wwtlab.com/2010/06/22/collapsing-server-management-points-with-ucs/. There are several other great posts there you should take a look at. Related posts: UCS Server Failover Why Cisco UCS is my…
Building a Hybrid Cloud
At a recent Data Center Architect summit I attended cloud computing was a key focus. Of the concepts that were discussed one that was a recurring theme was Hybrid Clouds. Conceptually a Hybird-Cloud is a mix of any two cloud types, typically thought of as a mix of a Private…
Recent Conversation with the Founder of Tolly Group
This morning I had a brief and interesting exchange with the founder of the Tolly Group Kevin Tolly. Because Kevin sent this exchange to my blogging email account my assumption was that he intended it to be added to the blog. Kevin was responding to the tweets posted below above…
UCS Server Failover
I spent the day today with a customer doing a proof of concept and failover testing demo on a Cisco UCS, VMware and NetApp environment. As I sit on the train heading back to Washington from NYC I thought it might be a good time to put together a technical…
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…