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It May Already Be Too Late!
I’m very enthusiastic about anything that makes corporate IT suck less (such as BYOD, Bring Your Own Device), and despite not working for any company other than myself, I’m still quite sensitive to...
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Is The OS Relevant Anymore?
I started out my career as a condescending Unix administrator, and while I’m not a Unix administrator anymore, I’m still quite condescending. In the past, I’ve run data centers based on Linux, FreeBSD,...
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CCIE DC Attempt #1: Did Not Pass
Earlier this month, I drove my rental car up to Cisco’s infamous 150 Tasman Drive after being stuck on the 101 for about an hour. I checked in, sat down, and dug into my very first CCIE lab attempt. A...
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Fibre Channel: The Heart of New SDN Solutions
From Juniper to Cisco to VMware, companies are spouting up new SDN solutions. Juniper’s Contrail, Cisco’s ACI, VMware’s NSX, and more are all vying to be the next generation of data center networking....
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Top 5 Reasons The Evaluator Group Screwed Up
It’s been a while since the trainwreck of a “study” commissioned by Brocade and performed by The Evaluator Group, but it’s still being discussed in various storage circles (and that’s not good news...
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Ethernet over Fibre Channel
Since the 80’s, Ethernet has dominated the networking world. The LAN, the WAN, and the MAN are all now dominated by Ethernet links. FIDDI, HIPPI, ATM, Frame Relay, they’ve all gone by the wayside. But...
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Peak Fibre Channel
There have been several articles talking about the death of Fibre Channel. This isn’t one of them. However, it is an article about “peak Fibre Channel”. I think, as a technology, Fibre Channel is in...
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