Putting SDN to work: Plexxi, SolidFire and CloudSigma
Every SDN story seems to start with some reference to the Gartner hype cycle and a somewhat condescending reference to buzz words. It doesn’t have to be that way, but when you are positioning yet again...
View ArticleNetworking Pidgin: The next step for abstractions?
There is a natural phenomenon that occurs when two groups lacking a common language come together. Essentially, the two groups construct impromptu a means of communicating. This new language pairs...
View ArticleArchitecting for resiliency
It has become fairly fashionable in networking to compare evolving architectures to trends that played out in both compute and storage. The general idea is that if you can identify some architectural...
View ArticleOpen Source as the Future of IT
Open source is playing an increasingly important role in IT infrastructure generally. Certainly, the role of open source in the compute space is well understood, and networking has been making its own...
View ArticleConverging your storage network without fear
The days of completely separate storage network technologies are quickly fading. It feels like it’s only a few years ago that Fiber Channel was the way to create large scale storage networks. Big...
View ArticleWhat networking can learn from CPUs
The rapid growth in compute demand is well understood. To keep up with accelerating requirements, CPUs have gone through a massive transformation over the years. Starting with relatively low-capacity...
View ArticleThe re-emergence of the Operating System
Compute started its major architectural transition several years ago with the introduction of virtualization. If you pay attention to any of the IT noise today, it should be clear that storage and...
View ArticleWhy Contextual Data Locality Matters
Big Data is quickly overtaking SDN as a key phrase in today’s networking lingo. And overused already as it may be, it actually has a lot more meaning and definition compared to SDN. Big Data solutions...
View ArticleNetworking’s atomic unit: Going small to scale up
The major IT trends are all being driven by what can probably best be summarized as more. Some of the stats are actually fairly eye-popping: 40% of the world’s 7 billion people connected in 2014 3...
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