POLL: 10 Gigabit Infrastruture

January 4, 2010

I thought this might be a good way to start off 2010.  So, what are you considering for your 10 gigabit infrastructure overhaul?

Feel free to comment below!

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VIDEO: Flickerdown’s Christmas Wishlist

December 24, 2009

Ok, ok….I know I should actually write stuff out from time to time, but, seriously, the Flip UltraHD makes this waaaay too easy…
In any case, here’s a quick (11 minutes…sorry…) video with my DataCenter wish list….(some of these items have already been answered, but, I’ll let you discover that in some of my postings in [...]

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Why FCoE is a GOOD thing…

December 22, 2009

This is a tongue in cheek video that I took in one of my labs showing why, for no other reason but fabric reduction, that CEE/DCE/FCoE is a valuable thing for ANY IT infrastructure.

A couple of things you’ll notice here are:
a.) it’s loud. Sorry about that…this lab is in a thermal chamber and it [...]

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Merry Christmas!

December 18, 2009

Yes, I know…It’s not Christmas (yet)…but, I did just get this really cool FlipHD video camera and wanted to give it a shot.

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Frosting the FCoE Cake…

November 2, 2009

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I was advised the other day that a certain manufacturer was adopting a rather interesting model for Fibre Channel over Ethernet CNA licensing.  Rather than simply purchasing a FCoE CNA with all the features (10GbE, iSCSI, and FCoE) turned on, they were going to adopt some sort of staggered licensing model that put [...]

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