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Posted in Industry News on Oct 29th, 2007
Today Egenera announced we are entering the software market. We are taking the incredible power of our Processing Area Network technology and applying it to other vendor’s hardware. This is a big step for Egenera, though it’s more of a natural evolution. We are NOT getting out of the hardware business and will continue to [...]
Posted in Industry News on Oct 19th, 2007
Even with the incredible traction virtualization is making in the market it’s still easy to get confused as to what virtualization means in every case. Is it server virtualization provided by hypervisors like Xen or ESX? Is it storage virtualization? Network virtualization? Broadly, it’s all of the above.
One thing that’s clear is that the market [...]
Posted in Virtualization on Oct 10th, 2007
So, what is “Virtualization 2.0″? And what’s “Virtualization 1.0″ for that matter?
Starting with where the industry is moving…Virtualization 2.0 starts with removing the layers of complexity by virtualizing both above the operating system and below. That means going beyond server virtualization (Virtualization 1.0) and combining that with network and storage virtualization to [...]
Posted in Data Center Virtualization on Oct 2nd, 2007
I read the title of this Network World article and immediately starting thinking about whether a hospital and data center are at all alike. What do you think?
Is a data center like a hospital? Let’s take a look…
Minimal administrative resources:
* In a hospital, healthcare providers are forced to operate under extremely constrained margins and find [...]