OK. I’m stumped. I’m having a full blown WTF moment here. It seems the storage industry gets it’s spiral into dumb and dumber by the day. Here is lustrous and full bodied marketing failure from Brocade: I would often start product launch training meetings with the following rules: The first rule of this launch is [...]
Response: What’s in a Name? Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Changes the Game
28th March 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sponsored: Brocade Virtual Symposium – Storage Convergence
16th May 2012 by Leave a Comment
Continuing the series from the Brocade Virtual Symposium. In a special video session that was sponsored by Brocade, we got Chip Copper in the room with Stephen Foskett to talk about storage convergence.
Over the last few years, I’ve been very critical of Ethernet storage protocols like [FCoE](http://etherealmind.com/tag/fcoe/) and the fact that storage protocols are unlikely to work well. There are few times here where Chip was able to give me answers and a different viewpoint that gave me a different take on the solutions.
Presenting Silvano Gai With FCoTR Button
2nd February 2011 by 1 Comment
With great pleasure I present an image of the event whereupon I did present a FibreChannel over Token Ring badge to Silvano Gai. As you can see, he is clearly pleased with such a wondrous gift. On behalf of the FibreChannel over Token Ring community, I say with great pride, mission accomplished.
Why Does HSRP Have the “Standby-Bia” Command ?
10th September 2010 by 1 Comment
Why does HSRP have a “standby-bia” command option ?
FCoE and Standards: This Is What Really Matters
24th August 2010 by 3 Comments
In the recent weeks, J. Michael Metz from Cisco entered a ****ing contest with my friend Greg and decided to prove that the FCoE standards are done.
Will the Real FCoE Standards Stand Up ? No, They Can’t.
1st August 2010 by 17 Comments
J Michel Metz attempted a sleight of hand magic trick to astroturf over the lack of progress on the Ethernet standards. Unpleasant.
Cisco UCS Servers – A Little Bit of Cynical Marketing Magic Can Go a Long Way
16th May 2010 by 2 Comments
You can take the view that Cisco Unified Computing System is a product that is carefully designed so that selling it is as easy as possible. A cynical marketing analysis has produced a product that customers can be convinced to buy. Or is it an innovation in server and data centre design that is desperately needed ?
Internets of Interest:18 Jan 10
19th January 2010 by Leave a Comment
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 18 Jan 10:
Internets of Interest:16 Jan 10
17th January 2010 by Leave a Comment
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 16 Jan 10:
Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology
17th December 2009 by 14 Comments
Chris Evans believes that “FCoE” will rule the world. Hah. I believe it’s just a transition technology that drags Storage out of it’s closed, proprietary mindset into the open collaborative world. Data Networks can easily adapt.
