I am a big fan and proponent of iSCSI or NAS protocols over 10GbE for storage access. It is the workhorse and unsung hero in storage networking. Akin to ethernet’s simplicity, iSCSI protocol is ubiquitous, familiar and enables mainstream storage applications. iSCSI also en...
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10 GbE is the no-brainer in Storage Networking
March 1st, 2010The race to zero latency in Cloud Networking
February 1st, 2010
The goal is millions of transactions in real time. Not an easy feat without a new class of networking gear and new architectures. It is changing and challenging traditional constructs for High Frequency Trading (HFT) markets. It creates an insatiable appetite to shave every n...
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Is 2010 the Year of 10Gig?
January 6th, 2010As 2010 begins and we celebrate the onset of the next new decade, I would like to wish my readers a happy new year and also pose a question asked many times before.
Will 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) reach the inflection point in the datacenter this year?
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Evolution of Switching Architectures in Cloud Networking
December 3rd, 2009As we wrap up this year, I do sense that the architectural shift in the datacenter environments has begun to change traditional constructs. As I said at the beginning of the year in January 2009, two tiered cloud transformation was one of my new-year resolutions and I predicte...
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