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Change of Address

4. June 2010

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Today’s message is about goodbyes and hellos. For the last few years I have had the pleasure of working with a great sales team at NetApp with customers from around the world. I joined NetApp after a few virtualization projects in the mid 2000s which I designed data centers that incorporated the use of NetApp [...]

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Technology @Home

20. January 2010

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It has been a while since I have posted anything. All Good reasons why, in that I have been kept very busy by my employer “NetApp” on some great work with customers on several very advanced technologies through the use of things we have worked very closely to integrate with Cisco and VMware, more on [...]

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I/O Virtualization, New Ethernet Storage Possibilities

31. March 2009

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A technology that I have heard about in the past but haven’t investigated deeply was SR-IOV. The research done for the last two posts placed the technology in a more strategic light for me personally. I feel that this technology will soon be in the mainstream of enterprises and this technology will be added to [...]

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Cisco UCS – Part II

26. March 2009

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The Cisco UCS system is proving to be loaded with a few thought leading technologies. Official Product details appear to be scheduled for launch on March 31st, 2009 http://www.thedcofthefuture.com/ Much of this detail, minus a few specifics, can be gleaned out of the At-A-Glance data sheet. Taking that data along with a nugget or two [...]

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Cisco UCS – Converged Network Adapters

17. March 2009

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It has been a long time since I have seen so much discussion about a technology announcement. It seems as though every corner of the connected world is discussing Cisco’s Unified Computing System. In a previous post I discussed more of what it means to the modern data center. As the onion is peeled back [...]

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FCoE – Wow is there confusion on this out there

12. March 2009

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FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet promises a great new future for block based storage protocols. I have found that in my conversations with many customers/clients that there is a significant amount of confusion around what FCoE actually is. This post is an attempt to clear some of the basic confusion up. The FCoE technology in [...]

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