Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News, Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Industry News on Sep 25th, 2008
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 virtual [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Virtualization on Sep 3rd, 2008
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.
The [...]