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Category Archives: data center
Where Is Cisco UCS Headed?
If you happen to read my writing(as infrequent as it is these days), you know that I am a networking focused person. I live my day to day within the walls of routing, switching, wireless, and other “network centric” platforms … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, hardware, storage
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Could Cisco ACI Kill APM?
Note – This is ALL 100% speculation on my part. I may be WAY off base with what you are about to read, and if you know something I don’t, feel free to correct me in the comments below. I … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, monitoring, network management
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My Lego Datacenter
I was invited to take part in a datacenter building contest from Juniper Networks recently. I don’t need to give you the full story behind myself and Legos. Let’s just say I have loved them for a long time. Both … Continue reading
Posted in contest, data center, humor, juniper
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Another Big Shiny Switch
At the Interop Las Vegas show in May, I got an up close look at the new HP12910 switch. I thought I would post some pictures I took and give my take on this new platform. First, I should point … Continue reading
Posted in data center, hp, switching
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Lacuna Systems
I had the pleasure of speaking with the people from Lacuna Systems at Interop a few weeks ago. I wasn’t familiar with them at all, and since they happened to have a booth on the expo floor, I was able … Continue reading
Posted in data center, lacunasystems, load balancing, monitoring, network management, vendors
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Getting Your Money’s Worth Out Of Your Links
I was fortunate enough to attend the Brocade Analyst and Technology Day event back in September at their corporate headquarters in California. I have a dual interest in Brocade as I follow them from a general technology perspective and I … Continue reading
Posted in brocade, data center, load balancing, switching
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Touring Geek Heaven
A few weeks ago, I went to Atlanta to tour a data center. HP invited me down to take a look at a specific customer of theirs. I live about 4 hours away, so I drove down the night before … Continue reading
Just Another Cisco Nexus Install
The most recent Cisco Nexus implementation I was involved in had some challenges. Since you can’t really have an in depth discussion on Twitter due to the 140 character limit, I figured I would throw this post together and share … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, nexus, switching
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Where Packets Never Die
I talked with a fairly large service provider yesterday regarding quality of service(QoS) possibilities for a particular network. Essentially, we were trying to figure out what was available from a queues perspective so that we could make sure we were … Continue reading
Rethinking Architecture With IRF
Several years ago when I was introduced to Cisco’s VSS technology, I thought it was a pretty cool idea. Not only did it reduce the number of devices you had to administer, it gave stand-alone servers and blade enclosures the … Continue reading