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Tag Archives: Gartner
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Mission Intelligence: Rejuvenation of “Hybrid” Protocol – Part Two
In Part Two of our series on hybrid protocol, we will explore the application of hybrid cloud solutions to solve critical needs. Businesses require the ability to dynamically alter the performance and capacity of their cloud environments on demand to mitigate unexpected surge in the business. An application delivery switching platform is ideal for customers who need something very stable and reliable that can conduct a healthy amount of traffic on a day-to-day basis, but also hugely variable in nature (cloud bursting in the public cloud addresses some, but not all of this issue). Continue reading
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Gartner Data Center Conference 2011
Brook Reams reflects on the Gartner Data Center Conference 2011 Continue reading
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Ethernet Fabric vs. FabricPath vs. QFabric vs. Your Mother’s Kitchen Sink
I don’t know about you but I feel empathy for customers seeing these terms and acronyms flying around. For example, take the Network World article John Oltsik wrote back in April titled, “Trill? SPB? FabricPath? QFabric? Flat Network…
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What I Didn’t Learn at Interop
As best as I can tell, I was one of about five people in the networking industry who weren’t at Interop this year. That’s because until about three weeks before the event, I was working on servers: Cisco UCS, to…
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Should Analysts Track a New Class of Ethernet Fabric Ports?
I definitely don’t want the life of an analyst to be more difficult, but I believe the trend we’re seeing in the data center demands such tracking.
The forecast and growth shown from analysts about private and public…
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Virtualization and A Box of Chocolates
Remember the scene in “Forrest Gump” when he practically bemoaned his third invitation to a White House function? In that spirit, I present you with the latest industry research report that declares that Fibre Channel is the king…
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The Roadmap to the Clouds
One widely held truism in all the discussions these days about next-generation data center architectures is that virtualization is the foundation and the first step toward building clouds. What’s been less clear is how to actually connect those dots. Forrester…
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Making Dollars and Sense of Ethernet Fabrics
If you Google the term, “Making dollars and sense” you’ll find almost 10 million entries describing the economics of everything from Pet Adoption to Nontoxic Boat Bottom Coatings. Now in Information Technology, there has traditionally been a lot of…
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Ethernet Fabrics and Gartner’s Fabric-based Infrastructure Taxonomy
Gartner published a white paper, “Clearing the Confusion About Fabric-Based Infrastructure: A Taxonomy”, defining a taxonomy for the term fabric. In section 1.4 they define fabric as follows:
“Fabric is a high-speed switched interconnect that links data center physical
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So What Exactly is a Private Cloud?
“Private cloud” continues to get a lot of attention these days, with surveys declaring that it is the #1 investment priority for IT organizations. Analysts had predicted this trend, expecting more spending on private clouds than in public…
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The foundation for virtualized data centers and cloud-optimized networks.
