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Posted in Industry News on Jan 23rd, 2007
Wow! Intel and Sun have finally decided to play nice together. After years of bickering, these two have announced a joint partnership where Sun will utilize Xeon chips and Intel will support Solaris 10. My how times have changed.
I suppose this is good for the industry…good for the customer…adds more choice in the market, which [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Jan 23rd, 2007
Even though it is the middle of winter (at least in North America) and oil prices are at a 12-month low, people are still talking about energy. The new Congress announced it will focus on energy independence and sources of alternative energy – with goals of reducing the cost and environmental impact of producing energy. [...]
Posted in Data Center Virtualization on Jan 15th, 2007
Virtualization is an overloaded term that will be an over-hyped term soon…if it isn’t already. However, unlike previously over-hyped terms (Utility Computing anyone?), virtualization is a widespread approach and tool — and more importantly, it has real value and real staying power.
Generally speaking, virtualization can be described as the abstraction of physical resources. Managing virtualization [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery on Jan 9th, 2007
Disaster recovery strategies are not new. In fact, many CIOs and IT Managers have DR mandates by executive management. The ever growing possibility of severe weather, power failures, terrorist attacks, pandemics, or even a fire or HVAC leaks in the datacenter are all driving this focus. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiatives are [...]
Posted in Virtualization on Jan 5th, 2007
If you subscribe to the de facto definition of “server virtualization,” then you agree it’s a technology used to consolidate applications running on a single processing resource by allowing multiple operating systems to operate securely on the same CPU. No one will argue that it’s great for increasing the utilization of servers and improving the [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Jan 2nd, 2007
I guess if you are going to blog then you need to make some predictions at the beginning of the year. Predicting what will happen in IT is about as easy as predicting whether the Red Sox will win the World Series…come to think of it, that’s actually been pretty easy lately. So here goes…
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