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
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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.
Internets of Interest:17 Sep 10
17th September 2010 by Leave a Comment
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Why Does HSRP Have the “Standby-Bia” Command ?
10th September 2010 by 1 Comment
Why does HSRP have a “standby-bia” command option ?
Internets of Interest:26 Aug 10
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Should a Networking Engineer Care About Servers and Storage?
4th August 2010 by Leave a Comment
As you might have noticed, everyone is talking about Data Centers lately and all the new “revolutionary” networking technologies are targeted at this segment. The reason is simple: server virtualization (not to mention the vapor-word) will forever change the networking landscape and the networking engineers might get badly hurt if caught unprepared.
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.
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.
Internets of Interest:8 Dec 09
9th December 2009 by 2 Comments
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Why Does iSCSI Use TCP Instead of IP ?
26th November 2009 by 12 Comments
The iSCSI protocol carries block data from storage array to server. Typically, that is inside a data centre where loss is not a problem. So why use TCP and have all that overhead ?
