Recently I wrote The Biggest Threat to Your Private-Cloud Deployment: Your IT Staff as a call to management to understand the importance of their IT staff and the changes that will be required to move to a cloud model. That post received some strong criticism from readers who took it as an attack on IT, which was not its intent. In this post I’ll cover the flipside of the coin, the IT staff perspective. To see the full article visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/240003623.
Your IT is Broken
Right this minute your data center(s) are broken. You, monitoring systems or NOC may or may not know it. All of the blinky lights may be green, all systems reporting normal, but the data center is broken, and it’s costing you money and business agility… Full article at: http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center/232602496 Related…
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IT Needs its Gates and Jobs
Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc. Hand that data sheet to a highly-intelligent, well-educated lay-person and you will get a blank stare….
Stateless Transport Tunneling (STT)
STT is another tunneling protocol along the lines of the VXLAN and NVGRE proposals. As with both of those the intent of STT is to provide a network overlay, or virtual network running on top of a physical network. STT was proposed by Nicira and is therefore not surprisingly written…
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