Foundry Postpones Vote on Brocade Deal, Stock Plunges - Network World
October 26, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
The path to FCoE is not running smoothly is it?
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Algoryhme by Radia Perlman
August 29, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments
Radia Perlman penned this poem while she developed Spanning Tree. Read more
Enterprise Cloud Computing - Build Your Own With Cisco VFrame - Why Wait ?
August 21, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 17 Comments
I can see some value in external Cloud Computing, but why not just build your own with Cisco ? Take a bunch of leftover machines, that old storage system and get a demo version and make your own. Read more
Brocade Buys Foundry ? No Great Loss. Storage Switches Ahoy!
July 22, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments
Following my post a couple of days ago about Buying Brocade switches it seems that Brocade isn’t going to make their own, they just bought something off the shelf. Read more
Are You Ready to Purchase a Brocade Ethernet Switch ? What ?
July 17, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 11 Comments
One of the more amusing byproducts of the FCoE marketing push, is that Brocade has announced that they will producing FCoE switches for their customers. So, are you ready to buy a Brocade Ethernet switch ? Read more
Data Networks - More Reliable to Than Storage Networks ?
May 1, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
I was participating in a storage design discussion and a Storage person threw up their most common complaint about networking - “we don’t know how to build reliable networks”. Let me take a shot at that. Read more
More People Against FCoE - Part 2
April 18, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
More posts from people who are opposed to FCoE. More meat for the mill…. Read more
Not Anti FCoE, More Like Anti Fibrechannel - a Response
April 17, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments
I got linked from Dante Malagrino at the Cisco Data Center blog yesterday. He writes a good post on why FCoE might be a good idea. Let me just say I am not only anti-FCoE, I am anti-Fibrechannel.
My rebuttal after the jump…
People Against FCoE, Its Loud and Proud - Part 1
April 16, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 5 Comments
For those of you who are thinking of rushing into FCoE and the Cisco Nexus switches you might want to think again. There are a few people coming out against FCoE and asking why is anyone bothering ? Should I be putting it in my design portfolio ? Is FCoE a done deal just because Cisco is throwing it weight around, or does it have merit.
In fact after some research , there are so many negatives I had to put them in multiple parts.
