Making the case for a virtualized hardware appliance

As Data Center infrastructures become more virtualized, the desire for virtualized network services increases. We see 2 types of offerings:

1. virtual appliances delivered in a VM image, such as the Netscaler VPX from Citrix
2. hardware appliances that can be virtualized, such as Cisco ACE or ASA

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Another Amazon EC2 story

Looks like HotPads.com has abandoned traditional hosting and moved into Amazon’s elastic compute cloud (EC2). This is a trend that I’ve been following in the web space. (more…)

Painting the Cisco Unified Computing vision and the steps to go there…

Wanted to share my thoughts around the launch of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and my thoughts around what Unified Computing means to me (more…)