If I Can’t Fix It, I’ll Break It. And That’s OK, It Needed Fixing Anyway.

When explain­ing out­age risks in a change review, I often need to grit my teeth and say quietly to myself.….

What Might It Mean if Cisco Dumps HP as Certified Partner ?

Thinking through the impact of the breakup between Cisco and HP as announced on Silicon Angle.

Opinion:Study, iPad, DRM and Me

A look at chan­ging my study and read­ing habits with the Apple iPad — but not the iBooks until DRM is sor­ted out.

Opinion: Observations on CCNP Changes and New CCIE SP Ops

Some obser­va­tions on what the changes to the CCNP and CCIE pro­grams tell us about Cisco inten­tions for their cer­ti­fic­a­tion programs.

On Books, E-​​Books, Copyright and Author Return

Ivan Pepelnjak has good rant about people steal­ing books.

How Are You Feeling About Cisco ?

Some people have poin­ted out that I have been Cisco bash­ing lately. Let’s check if it’s just me.

Drobo — Guessing How BeyondRAID Creates Space and Volumes

I got a present­a­tion from the Drobo on their new products, but I find the idea of bey­on­dRAID and their idea of dynam­ic­ally re-​​architecting the drive array to find the optimum and redund­ant con­fig­ur­a­tion to be abso­lutely fascinating.

Remembrance Day — Lest We Forget.

War is not to be cel­eb­rated, but remem­brance and hon­our for those who who went to war for us is part of our human­ity. 11^th November is Remembrance Day — Lest we forget.

Cisco, EMC, VMware — Living Together Isn’t the Same as Married

A bunch of CEO’s prom­ising to play ‘nice’ with each oth­ers toys is not a con­vin­cing mar­ket­ing exer­cise. Cisco and EMC/​VMware need to merge to get big enough to com­pete with HP /​ IBM.

Too Many Directions, Too Much to Think About

I’m work­ing on too many things — too many tech­no­lo­gies, too many vendors. How did I get here ?

My Thoughts on Google ChromeOS Mean for Networking ?

Google’s ChromeOS means a return to stand­ards based net­work­ing, and redu­cing the Microsoft mono­poly. Plus cheap net­books. A quick take on what I’m thinking.

Storage: Emulex Silicon Will Have iSCSI, TOE, FCoE, RDMA & iWarp in a Single Chip

Buried in this art­icle from the Register is apara­graph detail­ing Emulex Gen2 chip that does all stor­age vir­tu­al­isa­tion in a single chip. The FC boost­ers will be unhappy, they will have to compete.

Book Review: Project California: Data Center Virtualization Server

While this book has flaws, its an excel­lent and detailed intro­duc­tion to Cisco Unified Computing. Focussing on higher level ele­ments, its a great resource for Network Architects and will put you in the game against HP and IBM server administrators

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel — a Reasonably Complete View

A num­ber of stor­age blog­gers have been ques­tion­ing the rel­ev­ance of FCoE and why would you bother with it. Given the size of mar­ket­ing budgets push­ing FCoE and the real­ity dis­tor­tion this gen­er­ates, lets look at the case AGAINST FCoE.

Cisco CCIE 360 Program — Press Here to Add to Cart

I saw Cisco 3660 CCIE study pro­gram in an online store today. It struck me as poor value for money. Here’s why…

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. — Cisco Systems

Is Cisco buy­ing up Cloud Computing software ?

Blessay:Cisco UCS Really Is Just Blade Servers With Fancy NICs & A Response to HP Network Ambition

I found some inform­a­tion today, real­ised that UCS is really serv­ers with fancy NICs. It also rein­forced my belief that Cisco is respond­ing to HP & IBM, not attack­ing them.

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.

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