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Tag Archives: SAN
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The Grass Isn’t Always Greener on the LAN Side
A friend of mine who spends a lot of time with data center LAN and SAN admins has been telling me for a long time that SAN admins have a better life. SAN admins supposedly get paged less and when they go home after work, they stay home, while LAN admins are always getting pages in the middle of the night and fighting fires. To help prove his point, he took an informal poll and found that SAN admins typically log into their network roughly once every 4-6 WEEKS while LAN admins need to log into their network 4-5 times PER DAY!
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Chumming for FCoE Fish
Brook Reams of Brocade responds to Doug Gourlay of Arista Networks’ piece titled, “Why FCoE is Dead, But it’s Not Buried Yet.” In a series of Q&As based on the comments from the article, Brook defines the benefits of FCoE. Continue reading
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On Mainframes, Religions & Buggy Whips
Mainframes are dead! I was told this when I first started working in the computer industry in 1994. However, in 2010 Mainframe revenue was approximately $2.55 billion. Perhaps Mr. Twain stated it best when he said, “the reports of…
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The Business Case for Changing Technology
Jon Oltsik at ESG wrote a post for Network World titled “Is Ethernet Storage On the Horizon“. He provides survey data on customer plans to deploy FCoE storage.
I think there is another way to view the survey results and…
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Interop 2011 Highlights
I attended Interop this year for the first time in quite awhile. I used to attend annually back when the show was in its youth in the early 90’s. My, it has certainly grown up, moved on and expanded its…
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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 foundation for virtualized data centers and cloud-optimized networks.
