The cloud is a fantastic addition to the business environment that can aid your organization in achieving great things with your technology, but some professionals still feel that the cloud isn’t as secure as it needs to be, especially in light of the incredible number of threats loose on the Internet. However, contrary to popular belief, the cloud is a very effective way of storing data, particularly for your business’s data backups.
Despite the clear advantages that cloud computing offers to modern businesses, some organizations are hesitant to incorporate it into their IT infrastructure. Due to the cloud’s fairly recent insurgence, it’s natural to feel some sort of anxiety toward cloud integration. However, these fears aren’t necessarily warranted, and some can directly influence your ability to grow and expand.
It is true that on a night out with friends I often think I can sing like Kelly Clarkson. I also admit that she looks much more graceful running down fire exits in high heels (See video), albeit mine was just a fire drill rehearsal, no 'child-saving from crazy scientist' antics at the NTG building. I was however accused of slowing down the process and potentially putting everyone’s lives at risk when I stopped to show everyone how Microsoft Office365 looked on my phone at the corner of the stairwells on level 3.
However, the similarities increase now that she also recognises the beauty of the Nokia Lumia phone…. Ah yes, the bright yellow Nokia Lumia which you all associate me with, what can I say; I Love my yellow Nokia Lumia.
UCS has fundamentally changed the way people will deploy and manage compute and networks. One key innovation is the VMFex. For now, the VMFex is compatible with vSphere and KMS. Support for Hyper-V is just around the corner, though for this discussion we’ll take a VMware centric view.
We have been planning a few large high density virtual desktop deployments lately for some banks and had to think carefully about how to scalability manage the networking. During the process we crystallised our thoughts around where and why Cisco are heading with FEX ports and we like the look of where its heading – its very elegant. It’s a long post but hang in there, there is lot of background that is important
Before we look at how UCS and VMFex is changing the way we look at networks, it’s worth looking back and reminding ourselves how virtualisation changed the network when VMware took over the data centre.
