Posts Tagged Cisco

EMC and NetApp Vie for FCoE Leadership with PR Weapons

Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on July 28, 2010


This morning there were two announcements, that were really non-announcements, related to FCoE:

  • Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center in a press release
  • EMC started shipping Ethernet switches from Cisco and Brocade (Foundry products) according to EnterprisePlanetIT.com
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Cisco’s Rip and Replace Dilemma

Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on July 8, 2010


Current network topologies are inadequate to meet the flexibility and scalability demands of burgeoning virtualized data center environments.  New switches and new network architectures are emerging that transform the data center to Infrastructure 2.0 (comment or edit a vendor-independent definition of Infrastructure 2.0 on the wiki).  Users should be aware that moving to this new environment is a disruptive, rip and replace initiative that requires substantial planning.  Despite this caveat, a modernization process provides the opportunity to streamline current siloed infrastructure spanning network and servers in a virtualized context.

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Cisco Status Update – Analysis from Cisco Live – Adjacencies and Fierce Competition

Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on June 30, 2010


One of Cisco’s biggest strengths – it’s size – leads to one of its greatest challenges, how to keep growing.  CEO John Chambers explained Cisco’s strategy in his keynote at Cisco Live – see a replay of his keynote here (Chambers starts 14 min into the video).. While Cisco is a dominant force in networking, HP’s efforts to commoditize the networking market and the rise of innovators such as Juniper, Arista and others threaten the company’s core business. The key question remains, will Cisco’s moves into adjacent markets, which will take years to materialize, be worth opening new competitive fronts against the likes of IBM, HP and even Apple?

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Can You Really Build an All-Ethernet Data Center with FCoE?

Posted by Stu Miniman in Cloud Computing, Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Virtualization on June 4, 2010


Let’s take a hypothetical customer who is looking to build a new data center and they would like to embrace the latest and greatest technologies.  Can they construct an entire environment built with a Converged Network – an all-Ethernet environment?  This post will focus on the technology and ecosystem.

The Single Network

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Long Distance Live vMotion Storage Gems from VMworld 2009 Portend the Future for EMC?

Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on October 29, 2009


At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, EMC, VMware, and Cisco presented a “super” session (TA-3105) entitled “Long Distance Live vMotion. Cisco published a white paper about it and Chad Sakac of EMC discussed it extensively in his blog entry. A video of this standing-room-only session is available at Blip TV link (had trouble playing link from Chad’s blog entry; doesn’t work with Firefox). VMware also reversed course and announced that it was now supporting this configuration.

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