Cloud Computing: Don’t Be Spooked by the ‘Internet of Things’

November 2, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Michael Bushong.

We got into the Halloween spirit here at Plexxi—check out this Plexxi pumpkin carved by our talented marketing manager, Khoa Ma!  Jack-o-lanterns aside, we know the thought of navigating trends like the Internet of Things and Big Data can be frightening, especially if you are unsure of how to approach them.

As these trends gain popularity and deployments increase, IT architects often worry about increased activity on already taxed infrastructures. Our own Mike Bushong is our resident expert on this topic and he penned an interesting blog post this week on networking’s atomic unit and “going small to scale up.” Creating smaller units of capacity makes the network easier to manage, and most importantly, scale…

It’s definitely worth a read before heading out to trick-or-treat.  In this week’s PlexxiTube of the week, Dan Backman explains failure scenarios in case of hardware or software outages in a Plexxi pod design…

Read more from the source @ http://www.sys-con.com/node/3221016