Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 2nd Jan:

• Brocade CEO Discusses Foundry Acquisition « Data Center Knowledge – Oh, stop me now. Oh please.

  "Storage market is a couple of billion dolars" – and even that is an exaggeration.

  "IP networks is well over $20 billion dollars…that we can expand into" – now that's delusional.

  "…lowest cost, highest quality, low risk…." – now that is assonance.

• Submarine cable repair – PacketLife.net – Stretch finds some great videos on how the undersea repair are done.

  I often forget how important cabling is to our networks. Its an invisible technology that only gets noticed when it isn't there. Fascinating.