Loose coupling – Winning strategy for hardware, software and processes

With all of the SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) and SDN (Software Defined Networking) coming into the fore these days, it is good to take a look at exactly why it is getting serious focus, and what particular qualities make it a winning strategy. I’ve mentioned the term loosely coupled systems among my peers for quite … Read more

SDS? SDN? Understanding the Control Plane versus the Data Plane

In a Software Defined world, we are facing lots of new challenges with bringing people up to speed with the intricacies of what makes any of our core components “Software Defined”. With EMC bringing out their new ViPR (Virtualization Platform Re-imagined  aka Project Bourne), we now have another entry into the Software Defined Storage side of … Read more

Why a “cloud” product may not really be a cloud product

In the sea of buzzwords that we are inundated with in IT, none is more popular these days than the word “cloud”. What is important about this word though is that it comes with a very specific meaning that many products and services are missing. I liken it to the word “magic” which in itself … Read more

Welcome Vision Solutions to the DiscoPosse family!

As a long time customer of the Double-Take product family, I’m proud to announce that Vision Solutions is joining the ranks as a sponsor for DiscoPosse.com. For those who haven’t already been exposed to Vision Solutions, stay tuned as I’ll be bringing you an introductory post in the coming days. Double-Take Product Family If the … Read more