Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Egenera News on Apr 30th, 2007
I’ve been blogging for some time now about the benefits of hypervisors and also the risk of adding complexity when choosing virtual machines as a strategy for the data center. Today Egenera announced a new product named vBlades that will provide all of the benefits that hypervisors provide while reducing the risk and complexity that [...]
Posted in Industry News on Apr 19th, 2007
Moore’s Law is loosely defined as the number of transistors on a chip doubling every 24 months. Most people equate this law to CPU performance and it doubling every 18 months. While it’s not an accurate definition from a historical point of view, it’s been pretty consistent. So…does this still matter? With CPU utilization averaging [...]
Posted in IO Virtualization on Apr 11th, 2007
Brace yourselves. You’re going to hear a lot about IO virtualization in the next year, and deservedly so. IO virtualization is the key to making virtual servers work effectively. Egenera figured this out many years ago and others are finally catching on.
What is it? IO virtualization can come in many flavors depending upon the exact [...]
Posted in Industry News on Apr 9th, 2007
The “Google model” remains a constant touchpoint for most folks in the technology industry. How they do it, why it works, etc. My take has always been, “the Google model of assembling large numbers of commodity servers in a huge grid only works for certain types of applications.” Historically, grids have been really good in [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Apr 6th, 2007
A “darkened” or “dark” data center has been designed to eliminate the need for human intervention so that system admins and managers can deal with mission critical development and process improvement projects vs. spending all their time fighting fires. These “lights out” data center initiatives have allowed managers to achieve the following:
Lower TCO - By [...]