Why NAS Might Overtake SAN Storage Nov 17, 2009
This is changing, and more high-end storage vendors are now supporting iSCSI. With 10GbE pricing dropping fast and NICs available in the market, I suspect iSCSI will become more popular and another option for a large variety of storage systems. In the near future, the real distinction that will need to be decided is what is a SAN connection and what is a NAS connection. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Tennessee's Kraken Named World's Third Fastest Computer, ORNL's Jaguar Is No. 1 Nov 17, 2009
Nautilus and its accompying research center will be part of UT's National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), which also manages Kraken. Both Kraken and Jaguar are Cray XT5 supercomputers. (Science Daily)
Intel Wants Servers to Have Open FCoE Inside Oct 31, 2009
As Love wrote to colleagues, "FCoE will allow systems with an Ethernet adapter and a Fibre Channel Forwarder to login to a Fibre Channel fabric ... that was previously reserved exclusively for Fibre Channel . This technology reduces complexity in the data center by aiding network convergence. It is targeted for 10Gps Ethernet NICs but will work on any Ethernet NIC supporting pause frames. Our code base provides a Fibre Channel protocol processing module as well as an Ethernet based transport... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Cisco's Virtual NICs Boosts its Unified Computing Oct 14, 2009
Paul Durzan, Cisco's director of hardware platform marketing, explained that with a typical two-port 10 gigabit NIC (network interface card), the host OS will see two 10 gigabit NICs that a network administrator can provision. "What we're doing with the virtual interface card is we can show up to 128 vNICs (virtual NICs) to the host OS," Durzan told InternetNews ... He added that users can set up the Virtual Interface Card in whatever combination of NICs for LAN and NAS () access and HBA () for... (Datamation)
Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop Oct 9, 2009
The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputerKrakenhas been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one petaflop, a landmark achievement that will greatly accelerate science and place Kraken among the top five computers in the world ... "At over a petaflop of peak computing power, and the ability to routinely run full machine jobs, Kraken will dominate large-scale NSF computing in the near... (EurekAlert!)
FCoE Is Ready, Is It Time to Care? Sep 30, 2009
This requires separate switches, network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters () and cabling ... CNAs that combine the functionality of NICs and HBAs in a single adaptor can be deployed to simplify implementation and reduce the number of adaptors, cables and switch ports while carrying FC and Ethernet traffic on a single link. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Obama's Speech to Students: Prepared Text Sep 8, 2009
Creeper00 is evidently her new moniker, number #879 in the continuing series of Rowdy nics. Just ignore her, she's a "commie" in disguise, aren't ya, Rowdy. (CBS News)
HP Ups Its Focus on Desktop Virtualization Sep 3, 2009
The two companies are leveraging open industry standards such as Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA), which converges virtual switches, network interface cards (NICs), and access points to be managed universally to increase visibility, improve traffic control. The two are also integrating VMware vCenter with HP Insight Control to give a complete picture of a PC. vCenter monitors the virtual machines but not the physical hardware under it. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Next-Gen Server Chips Emphasize Scalability Aug 26, 2009
When virtual machines on the same server communicated using virtual NICs and switches, the traffic was not visible to network administrators. They wanted visibility into traffic, even if it was staying within the same machine. (SmallBusinessComputing)
InfiniBand Marches On Without Cisco Aug 15, 2009
"And once you do that you can eliminate unnecessary components and unnecessary networks in your infrastructure. So if you take out a dedicated network from management, and you take out a dedicated network from storage, you have less components in your data center, less cabling, less switches, less NICs, and of course reduced consumption of power and cooling.". Indeed, compared to Gigabit Ethernet, even 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 20 GB/s and 40GB/s InfiniBand provides much greater speed and system... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Diary May Have Foreshadowed Health Club Shooting Aug 6, 2009
Man Entered Club Ready to Shoot, Cops Say - CBS News. Man Entered Club Ready to Shoot, Cops Say. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Palin Steps Down as Alaska Governor Jul 27, 2009
I should point out that the message you were referring to was talking about "crap" spouted about Obama by Rowdy (she of the 100 nics), not by the media. by proudmilvet July 26, 2009 11:05 PM EDT. (CBS News)
Gates on Arrest: Time to Move On Jul 26, 2009
We are all so glad, Rowdy ("HowVeryFunny", she of the oh so many nics), that you are not a cop. You are so completely ill-suited for it, being unable to maintain emotional equilibrium and a "cool head" in even the calmest, least significant of circumstances. (CBS News)
Reports link N. Korea to Web attacks Jul 12, 2009
The NICS issued a statement late yesterday saying it has various evidence of North Korean involvement, though has yet to reach a conclusion. The state-run Korea Communications Commission said Friday that it had identified and blocked five IP addresses in five countries used to distribute computer viruses that caused the wave of Web outages, which began in the United States on July 4. (Boston Globe)
Checklist: Five ways to boost iSCSI performance Jul 8, 2009
Tip: Pound-foolish iSCSI -- Should you use NICs in SANs. Tip: How to tweak Ethernet for iSCSI SANs. (Search Storage)
Analysis: Palin Was Fed Up Jul 4, 2009
got some new nics, did ya, to do your little dirty work for ACORN and CBS after the whistle has been blown on every complaint board on the net about your little games. Thought you could hide, did ya. (CBS News)
Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel Jun 30, 2009
You can buy 1GbE NICs for less than $10 from a number of retailers. Prices for these products were much higher six months ago, and even higher a year ago. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Watch lists, guns and government Jun 30, 2009
6:00 am June 29, 2009, by Bob Barr. The secret government Terrorist Watch List, reportedly already swelled to more than 1. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Obama Presses For Climate Bill Jun 26, 2009
The electronics needed for all the alternative projects in themselves are users of some of the most toxic chemicals in the world, even the windmills need the electro 00004000 nics. All the billions of dollars put into studys of alternative energy has produced only a better lifestyle for environmentalists involved in the studys, what we know now has been obtained by individuals who stepped out on their own and spent their own money in research. (CBS News)
How to determine the protocol for your SAN Jun 25, 2009
Of course, if you are doing HPC (compute clusters), you'll likely be investigating IB. Another consideration is for I/O virtualization, which holds the promise of reducing your network and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure by using virtual Fibre Channel HBAs and virtual NICs over an IB connection to the server. If you want a primer on SAN, I'd recommend the book Storage Area Networks for Dummies by Chris Poelker and Alex Nikitin, which provides a practical overview without assuming you know about... (Search Storage)
For Better Network Security, Know What You Have Jun 6, 2009
In addition, Verizon Business makes a list of servers and ports and looks for critical machines as well as those that have more services or NICs than expected. "We can examine a class B network in six hours," he said. (SmallBusinessComputing)
IT Gets More Scrutiny (and More Headaches) May 22, 2009
"If you have one Network Interface Card NIC in a physical box and set up 4 VMs on that box with 4 virtual NICs, you are going to have contention problems.". He offered an automotive analogy as an explanation. (Datamation)
Nigeria seeks WHO, CDC aid for more swine flu labs May 21, 2009
They are going through training and we do get updates from them," he explained. The Asokoro District Hospital, National Influenza Diagnostic Laboratory in Abuja was in April certified as a diagnostic centre for Influenza A (H1N1) infection in humans. This development was based on the listing of Nigeria by the WHO as one of the countries capable of diagnosing the Influenza A (H1N1) infection in humans. The nation got the listing based on the global health body's approval of countries with... (Guardian News, Nigeria)
Gun show legislation is just a diversion May 20, 2009
Only federally licensed firearm dealers have access to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.. An individual gun owner, who's paid a rental fee to set up a table at a gun show to sell from a personal collection, can't place that call, which is probably why Democratic Sens. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
More shad to reach Augusta shoals Mar 1, 2009
NICS reported 1,213,885 checks in January, up from 942,556 in the same month a year ago. Last year, the background checks were up 14 percent from 2007. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Masses to Marvell at tiny wall plug computer? Feb 25, 2009
I'd prefer 2 NICs so I can use it as a router/firewall/content filter for my network and plug it in before the wireless router so all internet connections are filtered. by February 24, 2009 10:42 AM PST. (CNET News)
Creating a VPN appliance with Ubuntu and Openswan: Feb 8, 2009
Of course, network cards present a bottleneck, but you can always drop in some quad-port PCI NICs. VPN basics As the name implies, a VPN creates a virtual, private network between two end-points. (Search Enterprise Linux)
HP On Demand Webcast: Grid Computing Meets Business Feb 8, 2009
This eliminates the need for additional costly NICs, switches, and cables while concurrently increasing bandwidth flexibility. SAS Grid Computing enables the implementation of SAS to proceed in a seamless manner. (IntranetJournal)
