Posted September 4th, 2009 by Tom Boucher
If you spent any time on the Solutions Exchange floor this week at VMworld 2009 there was one thing that was pretty clear. The Cloud has come.
What is a Cloud? It’s Cloud Computing that a lot of vendors have jumped onto whole heartedly, and with good reason, as this is where a lot of growth potential can come from.
But for the nerds on the ground, what makes cloud computing any different from a hardware perspective than the computing we’ve been doing for the last ten years, or longer?
In my sarcastic ‘been there done that’ view of the world, I say not a whole lot. Continue reading…
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Posted July 17th, 2009 by Tom Boucher
There has been a lot of industry chatter recently about this newfangled FCoE stuff and I’ve tossed a few articles out there myself commenting on the state of the industry and all that.
However at the end of the day, in this grand scheme of things FC is still the primary solution people are working on. Sure there is some early work being done on FCoE but we still have a lot of legacy infrastructure out there to work on.
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Posted May 22nd, 2009 by Tom Boucher
…it’s easy if you try.
Recently in the events we’ve held out with the IBM technical community here in the United States & Canada we’ve come across an unusual situation.
Apparently, a fibre channel adapter competitor of ours has decided it’s time to educate the world on the evil’s of heat sinks. That’s right, those innocuous little things that have been on computer components, cars, trucks, motorcycles, and any other mechanical device that generates heat for decades have secretly been trying to destroy us. They’ll starve air from your computer, make it hard to push air through, sorts of crazy claims.
Also according to them we’ve got nothing but a bag full of idiots in our engineering & development organization because we put heat sinks everywhere. They clearly know more than we do because they can make chips that don’t need heat sinks.
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