My final video from Cisco Live 2009 is the second of two discussions that I had with Kash Shaikh about FCoE.
If you have any suggestions for additional topics about FCoE that can be covered in a future video, blog post or updated whitepaper, please let me know.
Over ten thousand people descended on the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It’s fantastic weather here this week and since the Moscone Center spans a few buildings, people get a few glimpses of daylight in between classes, keynotes and pavilion hours.
I had the opportunity to shoot 2 videos with Cisco on the first day.
First I sat down with Kash Shaikh to discuss FCoE. With the T11 standards now past committee, customers can now confidently start evaluating and deploying the technology. We discussed things from the storage (FC) perspective. We’re hoping to shoot a second video later this week where we will discuss FCoE from the networking (Ethernet) perspective.
As I mentioned in my previous post, Cisco is using the latest technologies to extend the conference experience to those who can’t attend in person. One of the ways that they are doing this is by having a short video each day with bloggers, discussing what is happening at the show. Since things were just kicking off on Monday, James Urquhart, Chris Hoff and I talked about what we’re going to be doing and what technologies we’re excited to see.
In the video, I mentioned a VMware demo of VMotion over distance. The blog post discussing this is http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/2009/06/vmotion-between-data-centersa-vmware-and-cisco-proof-of-concept.html.
Go to http://www.cisco-live.com/attendees/virtual to watch John Chamber’s keynote today and Padmasree Warrior’s keynote tomorrow.
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Now that the FCoE standard has hit the next milestone by being approved by T11, there has been an increase in requests for information on FCoE. Next week, I will be attending the Cisco Live! conference in San Francisco.
At the conference, I will be giving mini-presentations at the EMC booth (Booth #436) on the Evolution of the SAN which in 5 minutes gives a taste of how FCoE allows for a converged network and is an important building block for the Virtual Data Center and the Private Cloud. I’ll be looking to have some further discussions since 5 minutes really doesn’t do the topic justice (no time to even touch on the cabling which has been a major discussion point with most customers). It also looks like I will have the opportunity to participate in Cisco’s Techminute, which will be a panel discussion with bloggers (hoping to grab Chad Sakac to join me from EMC and from Cisco Omar Sultan, Doug Gourlay, James Urquhart and Chris Hoff) which will be videotaped and posted to the Cisco Live social media microsite and YouTube.
Cisco really does an amazing job using many technologies t
o allow participation in the conference. For those that can’t be there in person, there is a Virtual Conference - you can watch the keynotes (including Cisco’s CEO John Chambers and CTO Padmasree Warrior) for free or pay for access to the technical sessions. Cisco is also utilizing Twitter; there is a CiscoLive account in addition to the CiscoDC (which Omar runs) and the hashtag for the conference is #clsf. There are lots of ways to watch the Twitter stream remotely - check out this TwiTip article from Jeff Hurt (it’s talking about Twitter chats, but the same tools are very good for watching and/or participating in a conference that uses a hashtag).
From my Twitter experience at the World Innovation Forum and EMC World, the keynotes are where you get the best Twitter experience. Not only do you have everyone focused on the same subject, but there should be time to read the incoming thread, which I doubt that I will be able to do while taking a 2 hour class on DNS or while talking with other participants during the pavilion hours.
Beyond next week’s conference, there is a Cisco Data Center of the Future conference on July 15th. EMC will have a keynote and you can get whitepapers and videos from the virtual booth. There are subject matter experts online to chat.
I will also be participating in the EMC Innovation Lecture Series on September 2nd - watch for details on the EMC Community Network (ECN) site. I will be discussing FCoE and the innovation journey of many decades in search of a converged network. The Innovation Lecture series is open for all to attend, it is a webcast with live Q&A and the sessions are all posted on the ECN site listed above. BTW, for those that wonder, FCoE makes up about 1/3 of my work, but is the only technology that I can publicly talk about at this time, which is why this blog covers FCoE related material and social media which I explore in my spare time.
Hope you’ll be able to join one of the events. Please post any questions that you have and enjoy the summer - it will be a busy one.
Stuart Miniman
EMC World 2009 is done. I’ve had so many people asking for my presentation “Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and the Converged Data Center”, that I got clearance to post up the entire presentation. Here is it is in SlideShare - you can view it here (there is a full screen button to see it bigger), on the SlideShare site, embed it in other places or download it from the SlideShare site (there is a “Get File” button) for use elsewhere. I would ask that you please attribute EMC as the author on the presentation. Feel free to comment on this blog, reach out to me on Twitter, FriendFeed or email with any questions.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and the Converged Data Center View more OpenOffice presentations from Stuart Miniman.
For more of my FCoE collateral, see http://nohype.tumblr.com/tagged/fcoe
If you participated in EMC World ‘09 in person or remotely, what did you think? Tips or suggestions for next year?
On Twitter so far I got the following:
@stu (me): IRL EPIC WIN of technical sharing and rainy ;) *Thanks everyone*
@irsanw: I was there while not there thx to social media
@StorageDC: mtg new ppl and old friends. The Lounge was an orig idea & cappaccino even better. Tech discussions were very fruitful.
@StorageNerve: truly it was great outstanding experience, meeting up with some of the great minds of the blogging / twitting community, look #emcworld 2010
@edsai: Great conference. Remembering the 72 hour rule. Most things forgotten after 72hrs, gotta make the most of it.
@emc_ivan: Tweriffic :-)
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After the positive feedback on my first FCoE video, our marketing group asked me to work on a sequel.
Here is the video:
Here are some accompanying slides:
Deploying FCoE with EMC View more presentations from Stuart Miniman.
If you will be at EMC World, I hope to meet you. Please post any questions that you have in comments and feel free to re-share/embed the video and/or slides on other sites.
Thanks,
Stuart Miniman
Twitter @stu
In addition to the whitepaper that I wrote on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, our marketing group asked me to create this whiteboard video. We have a channel on YouTube where these videos get posted. YouTube has been pretty amazing - no longer just a place where silly videos get posted, businesses are using it and it’s the #2 search engine on the web! YouTube is starting to see competition, but is still the first place to look for most video.
There has been some great discussion in the blogosphere about FCoE. I keep an eye on what’s going on through Google Alerts and Twitter search.
I currently have 2 conference appearances scheduled to speak about FCoE in 2009.
AFCOM Data Center World, week of March 9, 2009 in Las Vegas where I will present Fibre Channel Over Ethernet and the Converged Data Center Network
EMC World, week of May 18, 2009 in Orlando where I will present Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and the Converged Data Center
