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Joe Onisick (@jonisick)

Twitter Bio:: Cloud/data center Thought Follower specialized in using next-gen technology to architect data center and private cloud solutions. I work, this is not that.
Location:: San Francisco
Website:: http://www.definethecloud.net

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Network Virtualization: a next generation modular platform for the data ...

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This post attempts to provide a framework for that discussion, in which I’ll argue that the platform for the next generation data center network has already taken shape. It’s called Network Virtualization, and it looks a lot like the networking platforms we’re already familiar with.Over the last 15 years the networking industry has been challenged with tremendous growth in all areas of the infrastructure, but none more challenging than the data center. As networking professionals we have built data centers to grow from tens, to hundreds, to thousands of servers – all while undergoing a transition to server virtualization and cloud computing.

The SDN Impact on Net Neutrality

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The neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis of a fair competitive market economy. It is the basis of democracy, by which a community should decide what to do. It is the basis of science, by which humankind should decide what is true. Let us protect the neutrality of the net. – Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Web Over the next 10 years the networking industry is going to transform much more than it has in the previous ten year. The catalyst as we know it today is called SDN, but what that really means is its time to bring networking at least into the same decade conceptually as the rest of the computing

Engineers Unplugged (Episode 3): Virtualization and Workload Mobility

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This meter represents your reputation at a 100% scale based on your level of participation on the site.Find out moreIt’s Wednesday, time for a fresh episode of Engineers Unplugged! This week features VCE’s Tom Chatham (@tchatham) and EMC’s Travers Nicholas (@traversn) in a joint whiteboarding session around virtualization, VPLEX, and workload mobility.Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:Do you agree or disagree with Tom and Travers vision? Post a comment below or Tweet with #EngineersUnplugged.**Engineers Unplugged is coming to Barcelona for VMworld

Flash Master: Real World Cases for Performance Scale Up and More

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Flash memory is taking the data center world by storm and creating disruptive opportunities to challenge the status quo, overcoming the capacity challenges of RAM and the performance challenges of hard disks to enable innovative new architectures.

This article discusses several different real-world use cases for SQL Server, MySQL web scale, and performance scale up within a turnkey appliance.

When flash is placed within the server, as close to the CPU as possible (i.e. natively on the PCI Express bus), the mediaâs microsecond latencies enables

Thoughts From a Tech Leadership Summit — Define The Cloud

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This week I attended a tech leadership Summit in Vail Colorado for the second time. The event is always a fantastic series of discussions and brings some of the top minds in the technology industry. Here are some thoughts on the trends and thinking that were common at the event.

There was a lot less talk of VDI and virtualization then in 2011. These conversations were replaced with more conversations about cloud and app delivery. Overall the consensus felt to be that getting the application to the right native environment on a given device was a far better approach then getting the desktop there.

Hypervisors were barely mentioned

Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it

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Hadoop is everywhere. For better or worse, it has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard. Want to be big bata or enterprise analytics or BI-compliant? You better play well with Hadoop.

It’s therefore far from controversial to say that Hadoop is firmly planted in the enterprise as the big data standard and will likely remain firmly entrenched for at least another decade. But, building on some previous