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Egenera at VMworld: Capacity-on-Demand in Action

My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered.  Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...] Read More

View from VMworld: Mainstream Adoption Yields Mainstream Challenges

It almost felt like back to school for technology last week at VMworld – a lot of excitement and movement in the industry. Not to mention, more attendees, more vendors and more vision. I had a blast! Predictably, everyone I talked to has some deployment of virtualization in production.  Of course, they were familiar with [...] Read More

My Legacy Handcuffs are Holding me Back!

It’s my turn to blog and there is a lot to discuss.   Let’s start with the notion of a truly reliable and responsive IT function.   As a CEO of a relatively large company, it’s easy to define what the ideal IT function looks like.  I want an extremely reliable systems environment.  I want an environment [...] Read More

It’s still all about the apps…

In my last post we took a bit of a journey back through time looking at various technology waves of the past. In this entry, I want to explore how I think applications will be purchased going forward, as it’s important to understand the business model, which has a direct impact on the underlying technology. [...] Read More