The path to fully virtualized infrastructure started with VMware virtualizing datacenter infrastructure in 1998. Up until then, at least on the x86 platform, if you wanted to run your workload you had to buy a separate server for it; this was the core reason internet startups in that age needed so much capital, you had […]
It is said that, in life, death and taxes are the only certain things but when it comes to IT systems, failure is guaranteed. Disaster recovery is not about IF systems fail but rather WHEN they do. Failure arises from a variety of sources ranging from the fact that we are human(to err is human) […]
A network can be defined as a channel, media and set of rules that allow two computers to exchange data. The connection between the computers is established over wired or wireless media. With traditional networking, the data and control plane are housed in physical devices called routers. These devices act like gatekeepers and make the […]