"According to a recent Cisco report, annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes (that's 4.8 million petabytes) by 2016. In 2015, global data center IP traffic will reach 402 exabytes (that's 402,000 petabytes) per month. What's more, global data center IP traffic will increase fourfold over the next five years. Overall data center IP traffic will grow 33 percent per year from 2010 to 2015 ..."
What happens when you try to put 5 gallons per minute thru a 2 gallon per minute hose? Now you see the problem as "The Cloud is Growing Faster Than the Networks It Relies On." The answer is either faster pipes or more likely restrictions on how much data you are allow in and out. Make sure you cover this with your cloud provider before you sign on the dotted line.
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Oracle reports that its Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One and Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, running on a Cisco UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack-Mount Server with two Intel Xeon X5690 3.46 GHz processors, achieved 1,053,100 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $0.58/tpmC.com/us/corporate/press/1425234. This is in contrast to the nearly 11 percent lower per tpmC of the nearest competition -- the HP ProLiant DL380 G7 -- on a configuration utilizing identical Intel processors and memory capacity.
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"I’ve attended two conferences recently where a speaker talked about storage efficiency and the growing capacity demand problem. The speaker said that a part of the problem is we don’t throw data away. That blunt statement suggests that we should throw data away ..."
While the article is biased towards FCoE there is benefit into learning how FCoE is different that iSCSI. Under the guise of "Converging SAN Traffic In the Data Center", a Cisco solutions architect provides very good insight into how FCoE solves business problems associated with SANs and iSCSI. Just remember that no one technology is the panacea for all data storage, access and backup issues.
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"According to a recent Cisco report, annual global data center IP traffic will reach 4.8 zettabytes (that's 4.8 million petabytes) by 2016. In 2015, global data center IP traffic will reach 402 exabytes (that's 402,000 petabytes) per month. What's more, global data center IP traffic will increase fourfold over the next five years. Overall data center IP traffic will grow 33 percent per year from 2010 to 2015 ..."
What happens when you try to put 5 gallons per minute thru a 2 gallon per minute hose? Now you see the problem as "The Cloud is Growing Faster Than the Networks It Relies On." The answer is either faster pipes or more likely restrictions on how much data you are allow in and out. Make sure you cover this with your cloud provider before you sign on the dotted line.
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