Recently I was lucky enough to play with Cisco Hyperflex in a lab and since it was funny to play with, I decided to write a basic blog post about the hyper-converged infrastructure concept (experts, you can move forward and read something else 🙂 ). It has really piqued my interest. I know I may be late to the game but better late than never right? 🙂 Legacy IT Infrastructure Back in the days, you had to have separate silo to maintain a complete infrastructure (it is still true by the way, but it tends to become more and more frequent that networks, servers, and storage are progressively forming a single IT platform …. sorry I meant “cloud”): Compute(System and Virtualization) [Read More…]

I recently relocated to the US from France/Switzerland and I have been so busy the past 2 years working on that process. Yes, It is that long!  I have been asked about career advice twice this week and I wanted to share my thoughts about it. Networking in 2008 I think we all agree on the fact that the networking field has been very static for the past 15 years. One of the ways to provide a better network experience to the users/applications was to add more bandwidth (or invest in WAN optimization). OSPF/BGP/EIRGRP/MPLS and spanning tree haven’t changed much since 2002 right?   All the networking manufacturers paradigm was all about releasing new hardware that could provide more bandwidth and [Read More…]