Links of the Week – 2010.9.11

Dell’s alternative to container based DC’s
Pretty cool alternative to standard shipping containers.

Packet Pushers podcast
Very high quality podcast from some senior level networking guys. Well worth your time to listen to each week. Also has shorter “runt” episodes at random times.

802.1Qbg and 802.1Qbh
May want to read up on these. Very possibly could be what your deploying in your data center sooner then you think. Will be interesting to see how these and what Cisco is doing will play out over the next year with the virtualization of the data center. VEPA, TRILL and FabricPath; get to know these terms.

About the author

Steve is a Network Engineer/Architect based in Dallas working in the financial services industry. He has worked for enterprises, non-profits, service providers, as a freelance consultant and even a short time at Cisco, deploying and maintaining networks. When not being a geek he is a avid supporter of Arsenal football club and makes regular trips to Europe to watch them play. The best way to interact with Steve is on Twitter, you can follow him as @steve.