You can take the view that Cisco Unified Computing System is a product that is carefully designed so that selling it is as easy as possible. A cynical marketing analysis has produced a product that customers can be convinced to buy. Or is it an innovation in server and data centre design that is desperately needed?
Ethan, Dan and Greg are Deep Diving into the Security Topic of “Defense in Depth†and what it really means. .
We had an open discussion that really didn’t go far enough. We did cover the following:
Open or closed ACL’s in your firewalls and the performance hit.
The value of an IDS on the outside of […]
This is the second podcast by the PacketPushers crew. We’re slightly more prepared this week, and had more of an idea what to expect. Hopefully that’ll be evident in the podcast!
Today Dan Hughes, Greg Ferro, and Ethan Banks discussed some newsworthy events of the week.
Welcome to PacketPushers and our first podcast. Although this was meant to be a practice run, we figure we would just publish it anyway and do it again next.
I haven’t got any idea what Brocade is going to do next. Why would I buy their products when I can’t see the future?
Drobo is announcing the DroboFS with Gigabit Ethernet interface and support for direct replication between units and to storage clouds using an external storage partner.
Silicon Angle claims that Cisco is dumping HP as a partner and it makes sense. After all, HP and Cisco have been trading blows for the last two years and progressively escalating the war. Once the Acadia / VCE project was announced, it was clear where Cisco is planning to go.
Anyone who thinks that FCoE is ‘migration’ preserving your existing investments is wrong.. and right. The investment just won’t be in Storage companies.
A number of switch vendors have announced the 10Gb Ethernet is the THING for 2010. Really?
There is some misconception by many in the storage industry that FCoE is some type of replacement for Infiniband. My view is that FCoE is cheaper, dumber but MARKETABLE alternative.
