Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/06/speaking_in_tech_episode_33/
Speaking in Tech: VMware $billion buy - brilliance ... or blunder?
Also, how many bods needed to fit an SDN lightbulb?
Posted in Data Centre, 6th November 2012 14:00 GMT
Watch Now : Virtual Machine Movement with Hyper-V
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This week's techcast delves into all the latest technology in the storage and virtualisation sector. Your hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela (Ed Saipetch is away on a secret mission) are talking to the Man Who Knows - special guest J Metz (@DrJMetz), who is strategic product manager of Storage and Unified Fabric at Cisco Systems. If you're a Software Defined Networking beginner, here's the place to start. We also take a look at the trend towards data centre convergence and how that will affect the storage industry at large.
This week we discuss...
- Happy Sarah
- Ed Saipetch, international man of mystery
- Catching up with J Metz
- The State of FCoE
- FCoE vs iSCSI
- FCoE vs Fibre Channel Brocade buys Vyatta
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) keeps making waves
- SDN hype - the scale of networks
- The enterprise and social media rockstars
- Social media split personality disorder
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