If you follow me on Twitter at all, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of
Qlogic. I appreciate the functional simplicity of what Qlogic designs
encompass as well as the “get business done” attitude that they bring to
their switches, HBAs, NICs, and CNAs. Imagine my happiness, then, when I
got ahold of one of their latest “edge” fibre channel switches, the
SANbox 5802V. The SANbox 5802V follows the typical edge-switch formula: 20
SFP ports for either 4Gb/s SFPs or 8Gb/s SFP+, 4 stacking ports that default
at 10Gb/s Fibre Channel connection and can be upgraded to 20Gb/s FC when
additional bandwidth is needed, a serial and IP-based management port setup,
and dual redundant power supplies (the 5802V ships with 2 PSUs; the 5800V
model ships with only 1).
SANbox 5802V
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As many of you may know, I work for EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Group as
part of the Atmos solution team. In this role, I’ve been blessed with
getting a closer look at where the future of cloud storage is going as well
as some of the drivers that will get it there. In this post, I’d like to
talk a bit about policy and how this will shape the future of storage. I’m
going to keep this as ab... (more)
This was filmed Wednesday, September 2nd. Enjoy!
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It’s not often that I get excited about technology within the storage
space. There are notables, of course, mostly that take my love for high
bandwidth interconnects (e.g. Infiniband, Rapid I/O) and mash them up with
high-speed storage (EFDs, Fusion-IO). That being said, when it comes to the
cloud, I’m absolutely estatic when off-the-shelf components can be utilized
to get your data fro... (more)
Nothing tends to solidify a community more than a cause that hits each of us
at our base element: our physical being. In this case, we’ve seen a
massive explosion of support within the storage community with folks from
NetApp, HDS, HP, IBM, and EMC (amongst many) coming to the aid of Nick
Glasgow who is currently undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. I’ll let
Mark Fredrickson tell the... (more)
Dave Graham is a Technical Consultant with EMC Corporation where he focused on designing/architecting private cloud solutions for commercial customers. 
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