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Your Tier 1 Support is in the Wrong Place 16 May 2013 | 05:54 pm
We’ve been enjoying Jennelle Crothers’ commentary for a while. Here she is talking tech (support): Lots of us started there. Depending on the size of the company you work for, you might still be doing...
Podcast 11: Why do we have Wi-Fi controllers in the enterprise? 16 May 2013 | 04:21 pm
Bob O’Hara, co-founder of enterprise Wi-Fi pioneer Airespace, tells the story of the origination of the controller-based architecture. He discusses the challenges of managing a multitude of access poi...
The promise of software defined storage 16 May 2013 | 02:54 pm
Here’s a great, long discussion of “software-defined storage” by Ray Lucchesi: (c) 2012 Silverton Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved Not sure why but all the hype around software defined storage see...
Why Facebook’s Open Compute Switches Don’t Matter. To You. 15 May 2013 | 11:24 pm
Tom Hollingsworth comments: Facebook announced at Interop that they are soliciting ideas for building their own top-of-rack (ToR) switch via the Open Compute Project. This sent the tech media into a ...
So- How Much Interference And How Many Wires Would You Like With Your 802.11ac? 15 May 2013 | 02:53 pm
Lee Badman comments: Two points to consider beyond just when you move to the next great thing in WLAN: - Many of us have invested hundreds or thousands of cable runs in our current wireless networks,...
SELinux & Return On Time Invested 14 May 2013 | 02:08 pm
Matt Simmons disagrees on the usefulness of SELinux, and we suspect many readers might disagree with him! I’m a little behind on my reading, but I wanted to address Major Hayden’s blog posts about dis...
ViPR – Frankenstorage Revisited 13 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
Chris Evans points out the shift in attitude at EMC regarding “Frankenstorage”: Cast your minds back to 2009. At that time, Chuck Hollis wrote a blog post that quoted the following definition: “Frank...
Fibre Channel: Generations 8 May 2013 | 11:35 pm
Tony Bourke comments at The Data Center Overlords: In case you haven’t heard, Brocade is rebranding their 16 Gbit Fibre Channel offerings as Generation 5 Fibre Channel. Upcoming 32 Gbit Fibre Channel ...
NETCONF+YANG+NETMOD versus SMI-S 8 May 2013 | 06:50 pm
Ivan Pepelnjak comments at ipSpace.net: With all the Puppet buzz I’m hearing and claims that “compute and storage orchestration problems have been solved” I wanted to check the reality of those claims...
VXLAN scalability challenges 8 May 2013 | 04:05 pm
Ivan Pepelnjak comments at ipSpace.net: VXLAN, one of the first MAC-over-IP (overlay) virtual networking solutions is definitely a major improvement over traditional VLAN-based virtual networking tech...
