Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Industry on Oct 30th, 2008
We can’t ignore the fact that the overall economy has caught a bad case of the flu, but the fact is that the demands on IT have not changed as a result of the economy. It’s easy to get distracted in times like these – but we’ve all got to focus…harder than ever before.
Data centers [...]
Posted in Virtualization on Oct 23rd, 2008
Being here in our Nation’s Capital at this time of year, we’re on the verge of dramatic changes. I’m not talking about just the obvious changes coming November 4, but to Federal computing environments and their data centers as well. No question about it - change is coming at us from every angle.
The list of [...]
Posted in Industry News on Oct 17th, 2008
There are a number of challenges facing data center managers today – not just the sudden curtailment of investments due to the economic situation. Data centers are in the midst of one of the largest transformations in decades. The shift is driven by more than just new technology. New business models that extend corporate systems [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Oct 7th, 2008
Server Virtualization started simple enough - a way to consolidate multiple application servers to a single physical host. We might say it was learning to walk before running. At first we saw a move of test and development applications making the move to reduce costs and footprint. Over the last few years however we’ve entered [...]
Posted in Industry, Industry News on Oct 6th, 2008
My colleague, Christine Crandell, did a great post on her initial thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect all of us - customers, vendors and individuals. And importantly, that the opportunity for impact starts with our attitudes. It got me thinking…about who really “wins” in times like these. Value is more important than ever [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing on Oct 6th, 2008
Late last week, SDForum in San Jose, CA, hosted a standing-room only conference on Cloud Computing. The speakers were a good mix of industry analysts, end-users and vendors with a very lively audience that asked some great questions. There were several key take-aways from where I sat…most notably that Cloud Computing is part of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2008
Over the next several posts I’ll be exploring the impact the financial crisis is having on all of us - vendors, customers, individuals and leaders. I hope we’ll get some good discussion going - and be able to openly explore how we all can manage through this. After all, challenges breed opportunities.
The financial market troubles [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Green Computing, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Uncategorized, Virtualization on Oct 2nd, 2008
In my last couple of posts, I discussed the journey that we are on and how applications will be purchased and deployed going forward. In this post, I’ll discuss how I see systems being provisioned to support these applications.
In order to support an environment where applications are purchased as a service, with performance and availability [...]