Storage-As-A-Service
Storage can be costly and inflexible. Enterprise storage devices with high performance and availability are very expensive portions of infrastructure in data centers. They are also quite inflexible as organizations need to purchase sufficient storage to meet ultimate storage requirements, whether for a year or a day….
Should Datacenters go the Hyper-Converged way?
Change is inevitable and so is applicable to datacenters. Trends show that datacenters are adopting new changes as many disruptive technology vendors embark into the datacenter business. Players ranging from flash storage to software defined storage, viz., Pure Storage, Nimble, Nutanix, Simplivity, etc., are all boarding this ….
Software Defined Network (SDN) – Present, Past and Future.
Before we move ahead let us understand the 3 generations of networking. The first generation of networking was primarily dominated by mainframes. Organizations invested a lot of…
Basics of LUN and Target discovery on Windows
During my work with multipathing driver, I came across multiple situations where once devices were removed and added but they did not come back in time. Multi…
Looking Forward to VMWorld 2015!
Calsoft has been regularly attending VMWorld events. Given our interest in the Storage and Virtualization domain, this is the conference, which we cannot miss. VMWorld always lives…
SDN And NFV – Interesting Times
Looking back May 2015 may become known as the month when big money recognized Network Virtualization. Early in the month Ciena announced an agreement to acquire Cyan…
SDN & NFV – The latest technologies around?
Today SDN & NFV are the hot technologies in the market. Both solve some kind of NW problems & bring more efficiencies in the NW. However, they…
Empowering Network Virtualization with Automation – Part 2
There are many more ways automation can greatly affect functionality of virtual network like performance testing, network auditing etc. So far we have discussed about advantages of…
Empowering Network Virtualization with Automation – Part 1
When we talk about IT infrastructure, it consists of three major components – compute, storage and networking. In the new era of IT, virtualization has given a…