Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Cloud Computing, Dynamic Data Center, Industry on Nov 25th, 2008
“It’s a journey. A journey for us as vendors and a journey for you as customers.” This is a quote from an IT vendor presentation given at a virtualization conference I recently attended. The presentation was all about the “journey”. I was very impressed and equally amazed. The journey was great - it [...]
Posted in Blade Servers, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Dynamic Data Center, IO Virtualization, Industry, Virtualization on Nov 19th, 2008
I read with great interest the J.D. Morris blog on the death of independent enterprise hardware and software companies. It’s an interesting and thought provoking read. However, it’s also one that I’ve read many times in my career. Every time we hit a snag, someone predicts the death of innovative new companies and it usually [...]
Posted in Egenera News on Nov 12th, 2008
Change can be painful, but if we ignore the need for change the end result is often worse. Egenera is evolving and it was necessary to re-align our business model and company infrastructure, resulting in the decision to lay off about 28% of our global workforce. It would be easy to blame it all on [...]