Awesome! VMware ESXi 5 on a Mac Mini Server! Here’s Christopher Wells on how his install and upgrade process went.

Rodos faces the reality of big data and machine intelligence and comes away with a solid “meh”. Not an indictment, but not an endorsement either. More like a little comfort.

Brad Casemore doesn’t buy the conspiracy theory that says the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is a vehicle for a vendor (read Cisco) coup. Here’s why.

Lori MacVittie dives into the difficulty of enabling SDN/OpenFlow controllers. It’s really worth a read!

I don’t really agree with Hans’ “positive” lightning comment, unless you call it positive when you discover that Microsoft licensing is just as bad as VMware… But here you go! A great discussion of SQL Server licensing changes and the new SQL tax!

I’m not sure many Cisco UCS customers are really going to go out and buy Brocade VCS for converged networking, but they could. Here’s “UCS Guru” Colin Lynch on the benefits of this combination.

Surprise! No amount of networking technology will make Layer-2 networks be the correct choice for everything they’re being pitched for.

It’s amazing to watch folks come to understand and appreciate new technology. Even more so when it’s Ivan Pepelnjak learning a new networking technology! Here’s his take on Brocade VCS fabric.

Is it too confusing to have two different open cloud stacks? I guess not, as long as they’re clearly differentiated and targeted at different use cases…

EMC is following NetApp and Dell in introducing standard “cloud” configurations, and these aren’t vBlocks. Is this an admission that vBlock wasn’t a good idea after all?