Cisco Delivers the Next Validated Design
On Monday, Cisco released the next in their series of Cisco Validated Designs, or “CVD’s.” This time, it hits very near and dear to home for me as an ex-admin, because it is a CVD for one of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Availability of FlexPod for SAP
Today, NetApp, Cisco, and VMware announced the latest in an array of FlexPod architectures, this time supporting SAP. This is a huge step in a big direction for FlexPod, as SAP is one of the bigger and...
View ArticleCisco Delivers Long-Distance 100Gig!
Back in January 2011, Alcatel unleashed 100Gig over long-haul to revolutionize delivery. At the time, Cisco was also well into their UCS line, and were aggregating 10Gbps links into a single logical...
View ArticleVMworld with TrainSignal and EngineersUnplugged
One of the coolest parts of VMworld is the community and brotherhood and level of camaraderie that a large group of us have become a part of. I wanted to take a moment to highlight two key groups that...
View Article#07 FlexPod and CiscoLive!
In this episode of the NetApp Communities Podcast, we talk about my trip to CiscoLive Europe in London, some hot things I saw at the show, NetApp experts deep dive about FlexPod, ExpressPod, and new...
View Article#34 7 Deadly Sins of Storage Networking
On this episode of the NetApp Communities Podcast, fellow vTME Peter Learmonth (a.k.a. “P1″) stops by to go over the 7 Deadly Sins of Storage Networking…… REPENT! Special Guest Peter Learmonth,...
View ArticleStorage Guy gets a Synology DS1813+
DISCLOSURE: After chasing both Synology and QNAP for a couple of years now to try out their various Home NAS products in exchange for a full blog review, only to be met with “We’ll give you 10% off,”...
View ArticleSynology LACP and Cisco SG300
One of the biggest requests I’ve received since my recent Synology review was how the networking was configured, and especially how to take advantage of link aggregation (LAGG) and Link Aggregation...
View ArticleEngineers Unplugged Season 5 Premiere!
An all-new season of Engineers Unplugged kicked off today, and yours truly was very excited to learn that a recent recording I did at VMware Partner Exchange with Joe Onisick of Cisco has been...
View ArticleFree IT Training from Pluralsight
Just a quick note to help promote something that is absolutely amazing for the IT community at-large. Pluralsight is offering a FULL YEAR of free training to all of the industry professionals who are...
View Article#43 History of NetApp KiloClient and FlexPod
http://media.blubrry.com/netapp/content.blubrry.com/netapp/43-FlexPodHistory.mp3 On this episode of the NetApp Communities Podcast, we climb in the DeLorean, push it to 88 mph, and go back in time to...
View Article#46 Open Discussion
http://media.blubrry.com/netapp/content.blubrry.com/netapp/46-OpenDiscussion.mp3 Pete and I recap TechEd and Cisco Live, NetApp releases new software, and Pete gives me a special quiz on Social Media
View ArticleCisco Releases New UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Cisco releases the latest component for their UCS architecture, the 6324 Fabric Interconnect.
View Article#66 Cisco Live EMEA Post-Mortem, EF560, and SPC-1
http://media.blubrry.com/netapp/content.blubrry.com/netapp/66-CLEUREF560SPC1.mp3 Glenn brings back some in-depth interviews from Milan after spending the week at Cisco Live EMEA, we dive into the...
View ArticleIntroduction to the Cisco Nexus 1000v
A brief introduction to the Nexus 1000v and it's deployment...
View ArticleCisco Champions Radio – S2E7: Podcasting!
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-132150/TS-948244.mp3 Recently, I had the opportunity to co-host an episode of the Cisco Champions Radio podcast, where the topic was.... PODCASTING!
View ArticleVMworld with TrainSignal and EngineersUnplugged
One of the coolest parts of VMworld is the community and brotherhood and level of camaraderie that a large group of us have become a part of. I wanted to take a moment to highlight two key groups...
View ArticleCCNA Cloud – Understanding Cisco Cloud Fundamentals Study Guide
Cisco recently announced a new Cloud certification track that is focused on enabling 'professionals to build private and hybrid cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions'.
View ArticleCisco Fumbles the Ball with Invicta
With the recent end-of-life announcement for Cisco Invicta flooding the twitterverse late last week, I began to reflect on my experience with the product and quickly remembered how painful it was to...
View ArticleVMworld with TrainSignal and EngineersUnplugged
One of the coolest parts of VMworld is the community and brotherhood and level of camaraderie that a large group of us have become a part of. I wanted to take a moment to highlight two key groups...
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