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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

” From a network performance perspective, Matrix includes 2x10Gb ‘fabric’ connections, 16x8Gb SAN uplinks, and 16x10Gb Ethernet uplinks. As you would expect, the system has pretty fast networking; Cisco’s system includes 2x10Gb fabric interconnects, 8x4Gb SAN uplink ports, and 8x10Gb Ethernet uplink ports.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Thursday, September 10, 2009. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

Fountainhead

Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. The NFV discussion seems to be heating up a bit, particularly the “networking” part of NFV. Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason!

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

In part 1 of this series, I covered some networking basics (OSI and DoD models; layer 2 vs. layer 3; bridging, switching, and routing; Spanning Tree Protocol; and ARP and flooding). For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll assume that the load balancing is being done based on source and destination IP address.

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