Enterprise Computing: VMware, Cisco and EMC Join Forces to Create Acadia

Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware. All of this will...

November 3rd, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Cisco, IBM, Sun & EMC – A Busy Week

It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing. First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric. What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets...

March 19th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Cisco WAAS Deployments

I’m currently working on a project which is investigating Cisco WAAS deployments and I’m looking to validate successful deployments of the Cisco products in a geographically distributed environment. Has anyone done this recently? More pertinent, is anyone prepared to share their experiences...

September 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Conserve IT Con

There’s been a lot of blogosphere talk recently about the Wikibon “Conserve_IT” initiative and how California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company are taking the initiative and offering organisations rebates for demonstrable IT efficiencies. You can find comments here, here and...

August 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Holiday is over…

I’m back from my annual summer break (hence the lack of posts for a couple of weeks). I managed to resist the temptation to go online while away (partly because I only had access to the ‘net via a 32K modem and mostly because of the hard stares from my wife every time I went near the computer)…. I...

August 30th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Netapp/Cisco

I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front over the last week, mainly because I’ve been away on business and I didn’t take my laptop ( ). I travelled “lite”, which I’m not normally used to doing and that meant taking only the essentials. In fact, as I didn’t...

August 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

RTFM

Quite a while back, I posted on the Green Datacentre. Actually, the post was over a year ago and datacentre power and cooling issues have become a really hot (sic) issue. However, I have to castigate myself severely for not Reading the Flaming Manual. In particular the power demands of the Cisco 9513...

June 6th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Thin Provisioning – Cisco Style

There have been so many discussions on thin provisioning since the Hitachi USP-V announcement. When a major player takes on a specific technology, all of a sudden we realise that everyone else has already been doing it. Tony Asaro’s post probably provides the best summary of those who do it...

May 22nd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Port Indexes on Cisco Switches

I spent today building some Cisco MDS9513 switches. It’s good to get into the nuts and bolts of technology once in a while. They are big beasts – 2nd generation technology and with 11 usable slots, the biggest available line cards (48 ports), 528 ports in a single chassis. However the...

May 16th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Port Oversubscription

Following on from snig’s post, I promised a blog on FC switch oversubscription. It’s been on my list for some time and I have discussed it before, however it has also a subject I’ve discussed with clients from a financial perspective and here’s why; most people look at the cost of a fibre channel...

May 9th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

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