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It has been a while since my last blog post for IBM Storage Community, but just recently I read Steve Jobs, The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson…wow, talk about inspiration! It made me think of what Emulex and IBM are doing together and the strategy we have of making great products greater...
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As virtualisation has proliferated into the data centre over the last few years, with all vendors moving their customers towards 'cloud' or 'cloud-ready' technology platforms, and the advent of new multi-core processors, flash solid state disk (SSD) arrays and more pervasive cloud deployments...
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For as far as I can remember, Emulex has been providing IBM with enterprise-class connectivity products for IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, and IBM System x not to mention all the storage chips we have onboard IBM disk storage (DS) and tape solutions, and more recently, IBM XiV, IBM System Storage...
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For as far as I can remember, Emulex has been providing IBM with enterprise-class connectivity products for IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, and IBM System x not to mention all the storage chips we have onboard IBM disk storage (DS) and tape solutions, and more recently, IBM XiV, IBM System Storage...
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I was asked the other day how I see my customers using convergence technologies over the next twelve months and, furthermore, was convergence just another buzzword that no one will even remember talking about in a couple of years? Hold that thought! In the movie Field of Dreams, an Iowa farmer, Ray Kinsella...
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Filed under: 10Gb Ethernet, IBM, Emulex, Virtual Fabric Architecture, Virtual Fabric Adapters, VFA III, Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapters, I/O, Fibre Channel, HS23 servers, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, IBM Edge 2012
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I was asked the other day how I see my customers using convergence technologies over the next twelve months and, furthermore, was convergence just another buzzword that no one will even remember talking about in a couple of years? Hold that thought! In the movie Field of Dreams, an Iowa farmer, Ray Kinsella...
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As virtualisation has proliferated into the data centre over the last few years, with all vendors moving their customers towards ‘cloud’ or ‘cloud-ready’ technology platforms, I/O has become a small but vital component in the overall solution stack. Look at the acquisition large...
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Wed, May 9 2012
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As technology moves on and IBM systems become more virtualization-aware from both a server and a network point of view, it makes me think how will cloud or getting ready for cloud going to change my customers’ network? I believe as my customers wish to bring applications online faster and make...
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As technology moves on and IBM systems become more virtualization-aware from both a server and a network point of view, it makes me think how will cloud or getting ready for cloud going to change my customers’ network? I believe as my customers wish to bring applications online faster and make...
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Coming into 2012, I inevitably started to think of the year just gone and wondered what would be the latest and greatest from a technology perspective this coming year. Technology moves quickly and certainly we will all have some interesting challenges to solve pretty soon. The huge amount of data growth...
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This week, IBM announced the availability of the Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter II (VFA II) Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) License for IBM System x, an upgrade option that adds FCoE storage support to IBM 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Network Interface Cards (NICs). The new product, which is based on Emulex’s...
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North Carolina may have be coming to the end of its hurricane season, but the IBM BladeCenter and System x teams, based out of storm-ravaged Raleigh, are enjoying their own tropical storm swirling around the Emulex 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Virtual Fabric Adapter (VFA) II for IBM BladeCenter that was announced...
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Once again, Emulex and IBM have teamed up to bring high performance, reliable 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) solutions to market – ones that end users can confidently use to overcome the bandwidth challenges associated with next-generation data centers. This new offering underscores the IBM Power...