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Converging Management for Converged Infrastructure
One of the sneaky-big trends that gained momentum in during 2010 was the growth of converged infrastructure solutions. These are next-generation answers to more flexible data centers and cloud service...
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Diskless VDI: Resolving the VDI Storage Cost Bottleneck
Why pay $1,500 per virtual desktop, if you can have a physical machine of the same performance-level at half the cost. While the functional and maintenance advantages of virtual desktop computing are...
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The Software-Defined Datacenter: Part 2 of 4 – Core Components
In part 1 of this series of four posts, we examined the grand vision of the software-defined datacenter (SDD). In this second post of the series, we will take a look at the core components of the SDD...
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The Software-Defined Datacenter: Part 3 of 4 – Questions and Battlefields
After talking about the “grand vision” of the Software Defined Datacenter (SDD) in part 1 of this series and discussing the individual components required to build out the SDD in part 2, this third...
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Cisco Trades In ACE ADC for Citrix NetScaler
In Barcelona, Spain at the Citrix Synergy conference, Cisco and Citrix announced an expansion of their current partnership, built around desktop virtualization, into three new areas including: cloud...
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The Great SDN Divide
Well I have spent days slogging through what I can find about SDN and the role management will play as we plan out our research calendar for the coming year. On the topic of management there is...
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5 Network Management Resolutions for 2013
For the third year in a row, I will resist the temptation to predict the future of network management, and instead will recommend key focus points that network engineering, management, and operations...
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Juniper Announces Their SDN Strategy – But the Better Story is about Licensing
Juniper’s SDN strategy is well thought out and is not dissimilar to Cisco’s approach in that they are looking to make their network equipment less rigid and more flexible and adaptable. Oh and I do...
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SDN Has Stirred Up The Sleeping Giant – Not Put it to Bed
SDN does not spell doom and gloom for traditional networking vendors – that is just a lot of hype drummed up by some who have a different story to tell and who tend to come from datacenter centric...
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Cisco ONE: Cisco’s Answer to SDN – Their Way
Fresh off a week at the C-scape, the Cisco analyst event that takes place alongside their user conference Cisco Live! in Orlando, I thought I would attempt to summarize my takeaways regarding Cisco and...
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Data Virtualization and the Network = Disruption
Data virtualization (DV) is a hot topic these days. More companies are adopting the technology to add agility and consistency to their data management landscape. A driver to this adoption is the shift...
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Cisco Pulls Back the Curtain on Insieme
Cisco spin-in (now fully spun in) Insieme and I have to say it was not what I expected. It looks like Insieme is not an SDN controller, but rather an application controller or more aptly an application...
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Graph Databases–and Their Potential to Transform How We Capture...
Discovering, capturing and making sense of complex interdependencies is central to running IT organizations more effectively, and it is also a critical part of running the businesses IT serves. Whether...
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SDN in 2014 – A Work in Progress – Contention and Pitfalls Ahead
We ended 2013 with all sorts of vendors jumping on the SDN bandwagon, which has done more to confuse the issue than to solve any real world business problems. So we must ask ourselves what is SDN...
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