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The Journey Begins

In my last post I said I’d be writing a series of posts on where I think the data center is headed. This is the first in that series and it starts with my blueprint of the journey that we’re all on to simplify the data center…customers and vendors alike. If you look back at [...] Read More

iSCSI’s Bad Luck!

As Ethernet speeds reached Fibre Channel’s 1Gb/s and IP became a defacto global protocol for small and large enterprises alike, it became clear that wrapping SCSI commands in TCP/IP packets may be the next standard for block transfer over networks. Even more exciting was that iSCSI would run on everyone’s favorite data center network, Ethernet. [...] Read More

One Point of View

Summer time is great for vacation, especially in the North East where we get about 6 good weeks of weather all year! It’s also a great time to reflect and think about where we as an IT community are heading. I’m going to post a series of blogs on where I think the industry is [...] Read More

On my mind…

I’ve finally put my virtual pen to paper to contribute to our growing blog! I’m Vern Brownell, the founder of Egenera. I was an IT infrastructure customer eight years ago when I decided to create Egenera. The inspiration for our technology was the frustration that I had with the complexity and brittleness of the computing [...] Read More