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By Nick Lippis, the Lippis Report
A number of independent trends are driving a new age of massively scalable data centers. One of these trends include a new IT delivery model based upon cloud computing, where large hosting facilities provide a range of IT services to corporations and governments. Further, high performance computing (HPC) facilities built via server clusters on the order of thousands to tens of thousands of servers and more has ushered in new favorable economics, thanks to its use of x86 commodity hardware. The growth of public hosting and HPC facilities will only continue as efficient data center economics point to a fewer number of highly dense sites. It is this data center market segment, where the number of servers per facility is greater than 5,000, that we focus this white paper from a perspective of fabric, connecting servers and storage to internet/intranet via high performance Ethernet networking. For IT architects and designers of high-end data centers, this is the most important network design paper you will read this year.
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This is the question that Zeus Kerravala, SVP of the Yankee Group and I address in the Lippis Report podcast. Here’s a hint, lack of standards and the vendor community’s lack of interest of embracing the ones we have. Post your ideas on twitter with the following hash mark #UCINTEROP.
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Nick Lippis of the Lippis Report shares his opinion on the pro’s and con’s of mixing up the vendors in your network. Nick is interviewed on Jennifer Geisler’s latest FutureProof show.
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Zeus Kerravala of The Yankee Group and I make our annual top ten IT predictions. This year we make ten predictions ranging from data center/cloud/virtualization/IT Budgets, etc., to which firms will be gone by the end of the year. Enjoy, Nick
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By ABIresearch
As sales of IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN equipment have increased over the past year, there has been a general outcry from some vendors who sell WLAN products exclusively for IT managers; they want to move to all wireless networks. Some skeptical IT managers have questioned the objectivity of such vendors and pointed to famed psychologist Abraham Maslow’s observation that “if you only have a hammer, then you tend to see every problem as a nail.” There are legitimate reasons to consider wireless LAN deployments just as there are good reasons to deploy wire line solutions. The purpose of this research brief is to look at the current network infrastructure landscape, consider the advantages and disadvantages of both types of solutions, and determine a common sense strategy for IT managers and CIOs, who are in the process of trying to determine the best course of action for their own particular network environments. Determining their own network technology roadmap requires honest answers to a number of questions rather than succumbing to vendor hype and hyperbole.
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In this 3-minute vidcast I review Cisco’s Borderless Network Branch Office solution, the ISR G2, and explain what is so special about the ISR G2 from an evolutionary perspective on branch office networking. Enjoy. Nick
