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Posted in Egenera News, Industry News on May 21st, 2007
Earlier this year I blogged some predictions and called 2007 the year for Virtualization. Not a very aggressive prediction given what is going on in the industry, but it doesn’t make it any less accurate. But in order to get to this point, the seeds had to be sown many years ago.
In early 2000, Egenera [...]
Posted in Data Center Consolidation on May 9th, 2007
Are you consolidating and centralizing your data centers from “many to few”? Well, you’re not alone. Take a look at some headlines from the last year:
NASDAQ plans to consolidate data centers from the current seven down to two.
HP is consolidating its 85 data centers worldwide into six. The consolidation will help HP reduce its IT [...]
Posted in Blade Servers, Virtualization on May 3rd, 2007
I was sitting in a hotel ballroom – outside, the warm California sun was luring me away from the cold air conditioning breeze I felt before the breakout panel began at the Server Blade Summit. The panel session was called “Blades and Virtualization,” which alone is a very broad topic – but this panel focused [...]