If you’re a NetApp customer, and you’re running a VMware environment, you must be using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere. Right? I sure hope so. If you aren’t you should be, and you should be installing it after you finish reading this post. It is free after all. In addition to VSC …
As I mentioned in my article about Open Source Software Defined Networking, many projects are trying to go beyond SDN, and also provide NFV. NFV is Network Function Virtualization, and is actually a separate concept from SDN. While SDN focuses on mostly layer 2 and layer 3 functionality, NFV is focused on layers 4 through …
Software Defined Everything. Anything you’ve could possibly touch in your data center is getting to the point where it has some sort of software defined counterpart. Virtualization set the stage for our future data centers, by software defining hardware, and other technologies are catching up. One area I think is particularly interesting is the open …
Ever wished you didn’t actually have to have your data reside in Amazon, or maybe had a business case that just wouldn’t let it happen? Or maybe, you do want some of your data there, because it is part of your strategy for production, development, or backup and recovery. Perhaps you wish you could manage …
ACI, or Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is a new approach to managing and architecting our infrastructure. Integrated infrastructures, such as FlexPod have helped organizations streamline their approaches to designing, deploying, and running data centers. Software such as UCS Director has served as a unifying platform for managing the underlying components of the infrastructure, compute, network …
In 2011, when we were all just getting started with cloud (mostly trying to figure out exactly what it was), Citrix bought a company called Cloud.com. Cloud.com set out to develop on open source software to, well, power clouds, whether the be public or private. In 2010, when they emerged from stealth mode, they began …