CRC Errors, Class 3 Discards, Code Violation Errors & Loss of Sync - Why...
Storage is often automatically pinpointed as the source of all problems. From System Admins, DBAs, Network guys to Application owners, all are quickly ready to point the figure at SAN Storage given the...
View ArticleSilos - The Unspoken Challenge to the Cloud
Lets face it Virtualization and the Cloud have brought unprecedented benefits but theyve also brought challenges. One such challenge that is dangerously being overlooked is that of the silos that...
View ArticlevSphere 5, VAAI and the Death of the Traditional Storage Array
The launch of vSphere 5 and its new storage related features will set the precedent for a complete rethink on how a new datacenters storage infrastructure should be designed and deployed. vSphere 5s...
View ArticleCloudy Concepts: The meaning of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, MaaS, CaaS & XaaS.
Hence no surprise that when the seemingly simple concept of Cloud Computing took off, so did the emergence of an abundance of acronyms and synonyms reaping a new breed of I.T. professionals who were...
View ArticleExchange Completion Time - Redefining Application & Storage Performance
In a world where application owners, server and VM admins are busily speaking the language of response times, Storage folk are engrossed in a foreign vocabulary that revolves around RAID levels, IOPS...
View ArticleThe VMware Virtual CPU Dilemma - The Optimum vCPU to pCPU ratio
...2011 was also the year where I lost count of the amount of times I had to point out that sometimes overprovisioning a VM does lead to performance problems - specifically when dealing with Virtual CPUs.
View Article2012 Storage Predictions: Vblock FastPath, VI SAN Probe & Hadoop
Yearly prediction blogs are so clichéd hence why Ive always tried to avoid writing one. Despite this Ive always made a mental note of technology, products or companies that I thought were going to...
View ArticleCisco UCS: Undisputed Computing Success
Back in March 2009, when Cisco announced the launch of their UCS platform and subsequent intention to enter the world of server hardware, eyebrows were raised including my own. There was never any...
View ArticleConverged Infrastructure vs Reference Architecture - Cloud IaaS Choices
From the remnants and ashes of all these new product names and fancy launch conferences, the resultant war blogs and Twitterati battles ensued. As I poignantly watched on from the trenches in an almost...
View ArticleVMware's Cloud Monitoring Plan begins with vCenter Operations
Are VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to their initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. With VMwares somewhat quick...
View ArticleVisible Ops & the Road to a Vblock
What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product i.e. a true Converged...
View ArticleCIO Success Simplified in 3 Steps
A CIO should not be concerned with buying technology from different silos and vendors but instead acquiring solutions that solve business problems.
View ArticleSplitRXMode - Taking VMware Multicasting to the Next Level
SplitRXMode may be an overlooked feature in vSphere 5 but for anyone thinking of virtualising multicasting applications it's essential.
View ArticleSAP HANA's Real Time Challenge to the Oracle Empire
SAP HANA promised to not just make databases dramatically faster like traditional business warehouse accelerator systems but instead speed up the front end, enabling companies to run arbitrary, complex...
View ArticleVCE Accelerates Private Cloud Deployments from Months to Weeks
One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the keeping the lights on approach...
View ArticleVCE: Driving the Velocity of Change within the IT industry
With a need for a more focused and refined understanding of what Cloud service level agreements should be and ultimately a more concerted approach towards the applications, Cloud Computing's success...
View ArticleThe Pivotal Initiative - Aiming for the PaaS Crown
If you were to ask EMC or VMware whom they consider their major threat and competition youd be easily forgiven for being mistaken to think it was NetApp, HP or offerings such as Hyper-V. The current...
View ArticleDevOps: Bringing "Life" to Application Lifecycle Management.
The DevOps methodology is a straightforward and obvious initiative to cater for the changing face of application development and deployment. Despite this it?s greatest challenge lies within people and...
View ArticleThe Converged Infrastructure Team - The Silo to end all Silos?
If you've got an IT problem, if no one else can help and if you can find them, maybe you need to hire a converged infrastructure team...
View ArticleSoftware Defined shouldn't be about Infrastructure
The focus of a Software Defined strategy should be the applications not the underlying infrastructure
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