Executive Technology Strategist
[sayit] Most IT professionals who are more than a few years into their career remember walking into a data center and seeing 100 or 200 “pizza boxes” — rack after rack full of physical servers, each running a separate application. Today, of course, it’s normal for enterprise data centers to run 2,000, 10,000 or as…
Data centers have changed quite a bit since pizza boxes reigned supreme. We replaced those servers with virtualization, reducing our physical footprint and utilizing more of the CPUs and memory. Next came the idea of fully tested systems in the form of converged infrastructure: making sure different components of compute, storage and networking worked well…
We’ve come a long way since the original Cisco MDS line debuted a decade ago. Cisco maintained strong upward and backward compatibility allowing upgrades to a director, replacing line cards and supervisors, taking us from 2 to 4 then 8 Gb FibreChannel (FC) – while preserving the chassis, backplane and power supplies. There have been…
