When we left me at the end of Fun in the Lab: Setting up 3 Phones – Part 1 Prep Work …. (1) I had cloned an already existing CUCM VM and (2) I was stuck on the CUCM Licensing portion.
Today’s Mission
Today’s Mission (should I choose to accept it) is to license my CUCM.
My mission will involve –
I’m still hoping I will eventually come across some cookies. Why? Because all my UC friends keep telling me I should “check out the dark side (UC)” and that “they have cookies”. Just in case they are telling you this. I need to let you know I have found NONE so far and I think they aren’t telling the truth.
PLAY TIME!
The licensing error message that came up on the CUCM said 2 things
The concept of composable or disaggregated infrastructure is nothing new, but with approaching advances in technology on both the software and network sides (photonics in particular) an old idea might be infused with new life.
Several vendors have already taken a disaggregated architecture approach at the storage, network, and system level. Cisco Systems’ now defunct UCS M Series, for instance, is one example, and one can consider Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s The Machine as one contemporary example and its Project Synergy as two others; DriveScale, which we covered back in May, is possibly another. But thus far, none of …
The (Second) Coming of Composable Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Black Hat keynoter Dan Kaminsky has a few rants on his mind.
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. Call it a temporary inevitability, as Microsoft does. Call it stupid if you want to be ungenerous to IT shops used to controlling their own infrastructure. Call it what you will, but it sure does look like all of the big public clouds are going to have to figure out how to offer private cloud versions of their public cloud infrastructure, and Amazon Web Services be no exception if it hopes to capture dominant market share as it …
The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.