Speaking in Tech: VMware $billion buy - brilliance ... or blunder?

Also, how many bods needed to fit an SDN lightbulb?

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This week's techcast delves into all the latest technology in the storage and virtualisation sector. Your hosts Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela (Ed Saipetch is away on a secret mission) are talking to the Man Who Knows - special guest J Metz (@DrJMetz), who is strategic product manager of Storage and Unified Fabric at Cisco Systems. If you're a Software Defined Networking beginner, here's the place to start. We also take a look at the trend towards data centre convergence and how that will affect the storage industry at large.

This week we discuss...

• Happy Sarah
• Ed Saipetch, international man of mystery
• Catching up with J Metz
• The State of FCoE
• FCoE vs iSCSI
• FCoE vs Fibre Channel Brocade buys Vyatta
• Software Defined Networking (SDN) keeps making waves
• SDN hype - the scale of networks
• The enterprise and social media rockstars
• Social media split personality disorder

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