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What no cisco?

Kind of funny. I assume because Cisco's FCoE switches cannot connect to storage via FCoE(yet) is why NetApp went with Brocade. Because at least around here I've been to multiple conferences where the vmware consulting companies have been pimping VMware, NetApp and Cisco(for both servers and FCoE). Not even a mention of Brocade. This has been going on for at least 3-4 months now.

Give me "converged" storage via 10GbE+hardware iSCSI offload in 1 NIC/HBA(the iSCSI HBAs I have seen so far are HBA only not "converged"). FCoE is overhyped, the more I learn about it the less desire I have to use it, and the more I can see past the hype in it's ability to "consolidate" the data center.

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Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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