Every quarter IDC publishes market data for blade server vendors. In the past I’ve only covered the top 4 main stream vendors, Cisco, Dell Technologies,…
Unified Computing from Crate to Cloud
Every quarter IDC publishes market data for blade server vendors. In the past I’ve only covered the top 4 main stream vendors, Cisco, Dell Technologies,…
Well, it’s about fracken time, Cisco! Today Cisco finally announced information about their next generation UCS chassis. Here’s what you’re going to want to know.…
The future points toward higher wattage CPUs. Does this point to an end for blade servers? In this blog post, I’ll examine some real world…
In the midst of the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor launch and the slew of blade server announcements, HPE quietly announced their next edition…
Lenovo published details on their next generation Think System blade server, the SN550 V2 based upon the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor. Here are…
Choosing the best model Thirty years ago, I bought a 1991 Honda Accord. I reasoned that as this newly designed model had debuted in 1990,…
The average tenure for tech workers in Silicon Valley is three to five years, according to a survey by Inc. Magazine. Yet here I am still working at Cisco, 16 years after…
What Are Microbursts and Why Do They Matter? Ever wondered why a switch interface shows an average utilization of well below wire rate, and yet…
We have all heard the maxim “Life Imitates Art”. It might also be true that Life imitates IT operations as well. A recent personal experience…
In the blog titled Power of Cloud Application Centric Infrastructure (Cloud ACI) in Service Chaining, we talked about how cloud ACI provides an elegant solution for…