Putting the Flex in FlexPod
When I was still on the customer side, in 2011, I had the pleasure of working with FlexPod for the first time. It wasn’t in a cool rack that I could pose in front of, it was a NetApp FAS2040, ... Read...
View ArticleOpFlex-ing Your Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
ACI, or Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is a new approach to managing and architecting our infrastructure. Integrated infrastructures, such as FlexPod have helped organizations streamline...
View ArticleWhat Is This DevOps You Speak Of?
DevOps. DevOps. DevOps. We keep hearing this term over and over and over again, but really, what does it mean? Especially to those of us who aren’t currently Dev or Ops? Or are we? Let’s try to...
View ArticleFlexPod and Microsoft Private Cloud
One of the great things about FlexPod is its versatility. I can run multiple operating systems and applications on the same set of physical hardware. Just because I deploy a certain validated design...
View ArticleMeet KVM, Your Linux Based Hypervisor
When you hear the three letters, KVM, the first think you may think of is Keyboard Video, and Mouse, that wondrous piece of technology that let you access the desktop of your servers when you were in...
View ArticleFlexPod and All-Flash FAS for VMware Horizon View
My time with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI started in 2007. We deployed VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager for a couple of test projects, including desktops for the help desk, and desktops with...
View ArticleDocker Supercomputing? That’s Cray!
Have a Cray supercomputer hiding out under your desk? Probably not, but you may have studied at an institution with one, or work for an organization with one. Cray recently announced their Cray XC line...
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