I receive no shortage of advice on how to do my job–research, articles, books, seminars, conferences, boot camps, blogs…the list goes on. I hold a position that must be the most surveyed and over-analyzed on the planet. Every vendor wants…
It all sounds great on paper: an integrated physical/virtual/cloud environment in which resources are spun up at the drop of a hat allowing enterprises to consume exactly what they need and not a bit more. In such a world, “cloud…
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs. The company provided details about implementations of the…
I spend a lot of time talking to business people about cloud computing, and one of the consistent questions I hear is: What’s the difference between VISI’s enterprise cloud platform and something like Amazon’s public cloud? It’s a question that…
Despite vendor pledges to support existing or developing industry standards, users are expected to deploy single-vendor data center and cloud switching fabrics from their primary suppliers. Standards such as Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links (TRILL), Shortest Path Bridging and…
