Mellanox and HCI

Great post on how to properly design your Network environment to best support Hyper Converged Infrastructure:  http://www.mellanox.com/blog/2018/05/ethernet-storage-fabric-part-2/

Status of the "Cloud"

Good summary on the current and future status of the "Cloud":  https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/18/a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall-in-public-cloud/

Words to live by

"The complex solution is the worst solution. An enterprise solution likely requires many products from multiple vendors with different technologies and requires a range of skills to deploy and operate. The solution that requires more money, more staff and more products is more likely to fail. In short, simpler is always better but you can sound fancy when you call it “Occams Razor”.

Hmmm while I like NSX it's cost is just so exorbitant.  Will have to keep an eye on this:  https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/01/vmware_cloud_network/

Yay cumulus!  https://cumulusnetworks.com/blog/announcing-cumulus-linux-3-6/