Cisco and other Ethernet switch vendors explain shift from three- to two-tier data center networking architectures

Cisco and other Ethernet switch vendors explain shift from three- to two-tier data center networking architectures

If the data is located in a different domain -- say, another cloud computing provider -- than the result sets, which are typically huge, all that data has ...

If the data is located in a different domain -- say, another cloud computing provider -- than the result sets, which are typically huge, all that data has ...

By Chad Sakac

Scott Lowe recently wrote a good post on FCoE, and his thoughts here.   The comments of his readers are comments I’ve heard from others as well, so I posted a response in the comments, but I think Scott and I don’t have the same readership (and perhaps those that do may not read the comments)

This is an important dialog, IMHO, [...]

By Chad Sakac

Scott Lowe recently wrote a good post on FCoE, and his thoughts here.   The comments of his readers are comments I’ve heard from others as well, so I posted a response in the comments, but I think Scott and I don’t have the same readership (and perhaps those that do may not read the comments)

This is an important dialog, IMHO, [...]

This photo reminds me of networks that I have worked on. FCoE anyone ?

This photo reminds me of networks that I have worked on. FCoE anyone ?

Was in Singapore this last week and was talking with the VMware SEs and Cisco SEs there – sharing best practices, tools, and “dos and don’ts”.   There was an interesting discussion/whiteboard around the topic of storage network design around FC/FCoE (though this applies to iSCSI as well).   The Cisco folks made some really interesting analogies with VoIP and TP “micro-bursting” that I thought were awesome and I wanted to share.

Was in Singapore this last week and was talking with the VMware SEs and Cisco SEs there – sharing best practices, tools, and “dos and don’ts”.   There was an interesting discussion/whiteboard around the topic of storage network design around FC/FCoE (though this applies to iSCSI as well).   The Cisco folks made some really interesting analogies with VoIP and TP “micro-bursting” that I thought were awesome and I wanted to share.