Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Data Center Virtualization, Virtualization on Aug 27th, 2007
Industry analysts predict that agility will be a critical success factor going forward for the majority of data centers. This is due to the growing importance of IT in business as the supply chain is more connected: vendors to customers, partners to each other.
The technologies that will enable data center agility are heating up and [...]
Posted in Virtualization on Aug 22nd, 2007
“How many VMs or Egenera vBlades can I put on one of your bare metal blades?”
This is a question I am asked repeatedly. Unfortunately, there is no absolute answer as not all applications are created and hosted equally. Some of our customers run 40 vBlades on a single Processing Blade, while others run just five. [...]
Posted in Industry News on Aug 20th, 2007
Wow, go away for a little vacation and look what happens… VMWare has a killer IPO (not a surprise), XenSource gets bought for a HUGE multiple (big surprise), and IBM agrees to license Solaris x86 for their blade servers (even bigger surprise).
VMWare’s IPO was a great showing for the power of virtualization. They have built [...]