For those of us who wondered if Nutanix left any complexity in storage management, they continue to apply customer and partner feedback to simplify storage and compute environments.
EMC World, EMC’s premier technology conference, was held May 5 thru May 8, 2014, at the Venetian conference center in Las Vegas. Numerous keynote addresses, breakout sessions, virtual labs, announcements and demonstrations was a lot to take in over the course of four days, and even more to fit into a single blog post. Therefore,…
Fancy tag lines aside, we have come to an age of data storage like no other in the history of information retrieval. The amount of unstructured data being created on an hourly basis is mind-boggling. This includes video, photos, documents – you name it. Both consumers and businesses alike create terabytes of data and need…
I’m hearing more and more conversations on extending Layer 2 domains between data centers. While this sounds easy, if done incorrectly this could cause devices to fail (firewalls and load balancers) and asymmetrical routing problems in your enterprise. To avoid these problems you must understand how your customers communicate to the data center. Extending Layer…
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.
