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First-Mover Advantage & Unified Computing

I had to chuckle a bit when I read a recent claim that Cisco’s UCS was the “first” unified computing system certified on Oracle 10g and 11g RAC.  That’s just plain false. So stop the presses: To set the record straight, it was actually Egenera (using PAN Manager software) that was first… announcing 9i support [...] Read More

On The Virtues of (IT) Simplicity

Everybody’s talking about IT infrastructure/operations simplification, but only a few are taking concrete action to do something about it. So consider two views of simplification: (1) simplification at the “modular building-block” scale, and (2) simplification at the management/operations scale. Egenera’s customers have been driving us on both of these issues, hence our announcement of a [...] Read More