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Cisco UCS – Converged Network Adapters

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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Lot’s of Excitement about Cisco UCS

Cisco’s Unified Computing System has caused quite the buzz and while many are working on the specifics of what hardware component does what, I figured it would be worthwhile to write a post about what the promise or reality of UCS is. This is essentially a major transformation or technology shift that is occurring in [...]

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FCoE – Wow is there confusion on this out there

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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