Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Green Computing on Jun 28th, 2007
It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way.
Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)? It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had to [...]
Posted in Blade Servers on Jun 26th, 2007
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System has been out for a couple weeks and what little dust there was has settled. Actually, I haven’t seen too much out there in the form of analysis beyond the usual news pieces (have you?). Perhaps that’s a signal that - again - the industry is taking a “wait [...]
Posted in IO Virtualization, Virtualization on Jun 21st, 2007
I’ve been traveling a great deal lately, visiting our customers around the world and spending time talking to my peers. Apart from racking up the frequent flier miles, I’ve also been able to have some great exchanges with our customers and prospects - getting their feedback and talking about the industry.
One thing that really stands [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Jun 15th, 2007
So why have IBM, HP and Sun dominated the enterprise server market for so long? No it’s not because of the many millions of dollars they put towards marketing and advertising (although they do of course). It’s that they continue to leverage the massive install base they’ve amassed - customers they can “lock in” because [...]
Posted in Egenera News, IO Virtualization on Jun 6th, 2007
If you get a chance, read Jim Burton’s blog (IDEAS International) on our new vBlade software. This is a guy who gets it. As Jim rightly points out, it’s about breaking the binds between servers and IO infrastructure, something we have been doing here since our inception. Few analysts, and even fewer vendors, seem to [...]