Sigh….. yet another post to debunk some FCoE marketing and explain in some more details why FCoE is not good for Business Continuity (or business in general).
Why FCoE is bad for Business (Continuity) Read More »
Very often I get involved in cases whereby a massive amount of host logs, array dumps, FC and IP traces are taken which could easily add up to many gigabytes of data. This is then accompanied by a very synoptic problem description such as \”I have a problem with my host, can you check?\”. I\’m
5-minute initial troubleshooting on Brocade equipment Read More »
After a very busy couple of weeks I\’ve spent some time to dissect the release notes of Brocade FOS 7.1 and I must say there are some really nice features in there but also some that I REALLY think should be removed right away. It may come to no surprise that I always look very critical to whatever come
Brocade FOS 7.1 and the cool features Read More »
I attended Cisco Live this week in Melbourne. Since it was very close to home and Cisco was kind enough to provide me with an entry ticket. (Many thanks for this.) While strolling around the expo floor I ran into the nice people from Fluke Networks who were showing their testing equipment and of course
The importance of clean fibre optics Read More »
Maybe you found the previous article a bit hypothetical and is not substantiated by facts but merely some guestimations? To put some beef into the equation I\’ll try to substantiate it with some simple calculations. Read on. As shown in Cornell Uni\’s report the expected amount of data generated will reach 1700 exabytes in 2011
The end of spinning disks (part 2) Read More »
Did you ever wonder how long this industry will rely on spinning disk? I do and I think that within 5 to 10/15 years we\’ve reached the end of the abilities of disks to keep up with demand and data growth ratios. A report from Andrey V Makarenko of Cornell University estimates that around 1700
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