Work-e-licious

Those of you who know me, know that I'm not very keen on working in the software field. And that I'm not very keen on networking. So when they hear that I'm working at Intel on a storage networking project, they wonder what's wrong with me. Actually there's nothing wrong with me. Like most people I'm just following a course of my life which is the total sum of my actions in the past (Mostly Computer Engineering and my experience at TCS/EMC). It's a means of income and provides mental stimulation.

It helps that I'm working on a very interesting new protocol. In fact that is the reason why I'm writing this post!! My work is in the media!!! Of course, only 1/10000 of the effort that went into making this happen was mine. But hey, I had some part in it!! So I'm gonna bask in the glory, however small it may be!! :)
I know it's kinda drab, but here's the quote anyway:

"Intel has just announced and released source code for their Open-FCoE project, which creates a transport allowing native Fibre Channel frames to travel over ordinary Ethernet cables to any Linux system. This extremely interesting development will mean that data centers can lower costs and maintenance by reducing the amount of Fibre Channel equipment and cabling while still enjoying its benefits and performance. The new standard is backed by Cisco, Sun, IBM, EMC, Emulex, and a variety of others working in the storage field. The timing of this announcement comes as no surprise given the uptake of 10-Gb Ethernet in the data center."