Having to miss last years edition I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this years CiscoLive! conference in my hometown Melbourne again. Venue was excellent as usual. MCEC provides perfect facilities and is in the heart of the city so no dramas here. The opening keynote already showed to direction where Cisco has […]
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It is no secret that many vendors use open source software in their products and solutions. One of the most ubiquitous is Linux which is often the base of many of these products and used as core-OS because of it\’s flexibility and freely available status without the need of keeping track of licenses (to some
Open Source Software (OSS) and security breaches in proprietary firmware Read More »
I\’ve been writing about troubleshooting issues for a while now and one of the things that is very difficult and most time consuming is correlating events between host systems, switches and storage arrays in the even of storage related errors. My advice has always been the same. Hook everything up to NTP systems, make sure
Time with and without NTP on FC switches Read More »
For the past two years I\’ve attended Cisco Live here in my hometown Melbourne. I must admit that it is one of the best organized events I\’ve been to. Not only is there a huge diversity in technology and solutions presented but you can also check out the broad ecosystem of Cisco partners. If you
Cisco guru and long time networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak hits the nail on its head with the below post. It is one more addition to my series of why you should stay away from FCoE. FCoE is only good for ONE thing: to stay confined in the space of the Cisco UCS platform where Cisco
ipSpace.net: FCoE between data centers? Forget it! Read More »
The Cisco MDS 9506,9509 and 9513 series director class FC switches have been in for the long haul. They were brought to market back in the early 2000\’s (2003 to be exact) and have run a separate code-base from the rest of the Cisco switching family in the form of the Catalyst Ethernet switches. The
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Always being interested in datacenter technologies you can\’ t walk around Cisco. Their reach into many aspects of the datacenter in addition to the various access paths to those datacenters is significant. From high-end switching technologies to secure VPN access to wireless they are everywhere. The name of the game for the last couple of years was
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I browsed through some of the great TechField Day videos and came across the discussion \”What is an Ethernet Fabric?\” which covered the topic of Brocade\’s version of a flat layer 2 Ethernet network based on their proprietary \”ether-fabric protocol\”. At a certain point the discussion led to the usual \”Storage vs. Network\” and it
Why convergence still doesn\’t work and how you put your business at risk Read More »
I browsed through some of the great TechField Day videos and came across the discussion \”What is an Ethernet Fabric?\” which covered the topic of Brocade\’s version of a flat layer 2 Ethernet network based on their proprietary \”ether-fabric protocol\”. At a certain point the discussion led to the usual \”Storage vs. Network\” and it
Why convergence still doesn\’t work and how you put your business at risk Read More »
When looking at the network market there is one clear leader and that is Cisco. Their products are ubiquitous from home computing to enterprise Of course there are others like Juniper, Nortel, Ericson but these companies only scratch the surface of what Cisco can provide. These companies rely on very specific differentiators and, given the fact they are
Brocade vs Cisco. The dance around DataCentre networking Read More »
