An interesting thought about converged infrastructure. As Dwayne says, “the issue that I have with converged infrastructure is that it’s solving a problem that these companies helped to create.”
Martin “Storagebod” Glassborow suggests two reasons EMC reversed course on virtualizing behind the VMAX: Maintaining margin on controllers and adapting to a flash-filled world. Both are reasonable ideas.
Two solid pieces by Joel Knight bring up facts and features of Cisco FabricPath and Brocade VCS. It’s nice to see this information so concisely presented, from topology to pros and cons. Good work, Joel!
Andrew von Nagy looks into a strange bug (?) in the Broadcom wireless chipset used by the popular Apple iPhone and iPad, along with many other portable devices. This issue threatens to lock out a network for no reason, a serious denial of service situation.
I’m not sure that everyone would agree that Storage DRS is the most exciting new feature in vSphere 5, but it’s certainly in the top 10. Here’s Duncan Epping’s overview of Storage DRS and datastore clusters. Nice video too!
Chris Wahl goes deep and geeky into the latest beta of Xangati’s VDI monitoring tool. It’s worth taking a look to see what they’re up to!
Paul Miller sings the praises of Google’s Knowledge Graph, which I somehow overlooked in the shadow of the mighty collapse of the Facebook IPO. Reading this, I decided to have a look!
We have long wondered if Cisco would move into storage. As Brad points out here, there’s no easy way for them to do it without a major rift forming, as happened with UCS, HP, and Dell. Buying NetApp would work, as would buying a smaller storage company and trying to compete in the open market. But either way, Cisco doesn’t have an easy road into storage.
EMC introduced their biggest, baddest Symmetrix today. Much of the commentary was the typical “speeds and feeds” regurgitation, but Martin “Storagebod” Glassborow didn’t disappoint with his coverage. “Last of the Dinosaurs” pretty much sums up Martin’s (and my own) opinion on this announcement.
“Cloud” isn’t just a fancy term for a big datacenter, or even a multi-tenant one. Cloud is different, and it demands a different kind of storage, not another “monster”.
