January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 32m
English
I decided to write this book after the success of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Data Center book, which I wrote with Roger Andersson and Tommi Salli.
I attribute the excellent response to that book to the significant amount of material that we included on protocols, technologies, and system evolution. We discussed several significant changes that were happening in data centers, from the blade server architecture to the dominance of Ethernet, to the trend toward I/O consolidation. We also made some predictions on the long-term evolution, some of which turned out to be right, while others didn’t.
In the eight years that followed, the pace of changes has dramatically increased, and I thought ...
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