by Robin Harris | Friday, April 30, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Should a Unified Computing System be able to scale to meet growing application needs? Of course, but the network must scale with it. The problem: Cisco’s enterprise architecture doesn’t scale. And that isn’t only the StorageMojo take. Gartner VP Joe...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
One of the highlights of the Gestalt IT tour was a half day on Cisco’s UCS and associated products. But this was the real deal: an experienced and technical Cisco presenter going deep for a crowd of skeptical IT pros. Digging into the details would reveal the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Marketing |
Brilliant NetApp is buying Bycast, the little-known but likely most successful scale-out file storage company. Bycast has several hundred customers, many installed petabytes, leadership in a growing market segment – medical imaging – and a compelling value...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 9, 2010 | Management, Virtualization |
Got a presentation from a company I hadn’t heard of before: VKernel. Their specialty is virtual machine capacity planning and management. They demo’d their software, which ships as a VM. They offer free versions that are good enough to tell you if their...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | Off-Topic |
Off to Boston for a group blogger tour today and back Saturday. The agenda has been shrouded in secrecy though I believe EMC is on the list – with no NDA. Looking forward to that. Next week off to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters...
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