27 August 2010

Network Fabric:TRILL for Server and Network People. Welcome RBridges

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TRILL is a key network technology for enabling Cloud Computing by allowing for better migrations of VM’s, and better utilisation of the network switching fabric and much improved stability of the Data Centre Server Fabric.

Internets of Interest: 24th Mar

Network Dictionary – Functionality

Network Dictionary – Distributed Attention

Network Diagrams: Drawing Freehand Curves (and Then Fixing Them)

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Continuing on with absurdly popular posts about making diagrams in Visio. Lets draw a line in freehand. It will be broken, because we aren’t artists so lets talk about how to fix it.

The Greatest Risk to Cloud Computing ? The Vista Effect.

Everyday brings news of another failure of a “Cloud Computing” service. It won’t take much in the current economic climate for the market to take a “Vista view” and not buy it.

Internets of Interest: 13th Mar – 22nd Mar

Network Dictionary – Implementation

Define Implementation

HP Hit Cisco First, Not the Other Way Round.

Some people are thinking that Cisco is attacking HP and IBM in the server space. You can consider that HP hit Cisco first..

Top 4 Things About IBM Buying Sun

Some ideas, humour and bile about IBM buying Sun.

5 Things About Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up[Post Prandial]

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So Cisco announced it Intel Servers today. Its kind of exciting if you are into Data Centers and Virtualisation. They have done something very different.

Network Dictionary – Markenauts

Top 5 Things About the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour]

Just before the much ballyhooed launch of Cisco supposed servers, let look at Etherealmind’s Top 5 Things about Cisco’s launch today.

FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree

One of the most amusing parts about Fibre Channel over Ethernet(FCoE) is that Spanning Tree is making a triumphant comeback. And I am talking a Roman style parade after the gates to the city have been built and the streets lined with gold.

Cisco Is Wishfully Wishing for FCoE Sales ?

Is Omar Sultan from Cisco is wishing that FCoE would actually get some sales ?

Network Diagrams:Aligning Shapes

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In this post we are looking at aligning shapes in straight lines which will enhance your presentation.

Network Diagrams:Locking the Background Shape

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Once you are using background shapes, you find that they keep on getting in the way. This post looks at how to lock the shape so you diagram over the top of it.

Internets of Interest: 7th Mar – 10th Mar