Rick Schlander from VMBulletin writes about VMworld: Infinio is a VMware only — NAS offload engine. It is an in-memory software cache that is intelligent enough to figure out what data is accessed and when so that it minimizes on...
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Sooner or later someone will pay for the complexity of the kludges you use
Ivan Pepelnjak of ipSpace.net comments: I loved listening to OTV/FabricPath/LISP Packet Pushers podcast. Ron Fuller and Russ White did a great job explaining the role of OTV, FabricPath and LISP in a stretched (inter-DC) subnet...
Overlay Networking Part 1 | Keeping It Classless
Matt Oswalt from Keeping It Classless writes: Wow. Lots of talk regarding overlay networking, both last week, and now this week. No doubt largely caused by the VMware NSX announcement last week. This post is an attempt on my part...
AirMagnet 802.11ac Beta
George Stefanik from My802.11 writes: Time is running out. If you’re an existing AirMagnet Survey PRO customer who is under Gold support and maintenance at this time. Beta will be available in the next 2-3 weeks...
Snide hashstags, F1 cars, death by PowerPoint: I’m sick of EMC hypegasms
Martin Glassborow writing for The Register – Data Centre: Storage comments: Great, the new kit. Where’s the beef, chief? Storagebod EMC has done it again and managed to turn what could have been an interesting product...
Link Aggregation
Tony Bourke of The Data Center Overlords comments: In a previous article, I discussed the somewhat pedantic question: “What’s the difference between EtherChannel and port channel?” The answer, as it turns out, is none...
Storage IPO Season — Violin Memory and Pure Storage
Chris Evans of Architecting IT writes: It has emerged that both Violin Memory Inc and Pure Storage Inc are on the verge of initial public offerings, based on news articles last week. Chris Mellor reports that Violin have...
Software Defined Networking vs. Traditional Networking
Brandon Carroll of Global Config Technology Solutions comments: Software Defined Networking (SDN) should be of interest to Cisco certification candidates. Why? Traditional networking functions that you learn in the Cisco...
Removing BGP Private ASNs — Revisited!
Bob McCouch of Herding Packets comments: Reader Feedback! Recently, I posted about some lab verification I did during a customer setup where I had to strip private BGP AS numbers (64512-65535) before sending BGP-learned prefixes...
Tech Field Day Roundtables at VMworld (Simplivity and Commvault)
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes about the VMworld roundtables: Yesterday I attended the second couple of Tech Filed Day roundtables at VMworld, this time I had the opportunity to meet Simplivity and CommVault. If the first...