Tag Archives: optical

Why FCoE is bad for Business (Continuity)

Posted on 21/10/2013 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 2

Sigh….. yet another post to debunk some FCoE marketing and explain in some more details why FCoE is not good for Business Continuity (or business in general).

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5-minute initial troubleshooting on Brocade equipment

Posted on 09/08/2013 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Very often I get involved in cases whereby a massive amount of host logs, array dumps, FC and IP traces are taken which could easily add up to [..]

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Brocade FOS 7.1 and the cool features

Posted on 30/04/2013 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

After a very busy couple of weeks I’ve spent some time to dissect the release notes of Brocade FOS 7.1 and I must say there are some really nice features [..]

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The importance of clean fibre optics

Posted on 23/03/2012 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 1

I attended Cisco Live this week in Melbourne. Since it was very close to home and Cisco was kind enough to provide me with an entry ticket. (Many [..]

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The end of spinning disks (part 2)

Posted on 21/04/2011 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Maybe you found the previous article a bit hypothetical and is not substantiated by facts but merely some guestimations? To put some beef into the equation I’ll try [..]

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The end of spinning disks

Posted on 19/04/2011 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Did you ever wonder how long this industry will rely on spinning disk? I do and I think that within 5 to 10/15 years we’ve reached the end [..]

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