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Tying it all together

Virtualization, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Green IT (power and cooling)! These three topics are headlining the tech sections of newspapers around the globe, and businesses are smartly marketing their products around this tidal wave of buzz. Everywhere you look, it’s the same themes. Take for example, CNBC’s Mad Money, one of my favorite shows. Jim [...] Read More

Dog Days Again…

It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way. Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)?  It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had [...] Read More

Moving beyond legacy

So why have IBM, HP and Sun dominated the enterprise server market for so long? No it’s not because of the many millions of dollars they put towards marketing and advertising (although they do of course). It’s that they continue to leverage the massive install base they’ve amassed – customers they can “lock in” because [...] Read More

Consolidate 10 data centers to 2

Are you consolidating and centralizing your data centers from “many to few”? Well, you’re not alone. Take a look at some headlines from the last year: NASDAQ plans to consolidate data centers from the current seven down to two. HP is consolidating its 85 data centers worldwide into six. The consolidation will help HP reduce [...] Read More

Going Dark (data center dark that is)

A “darkened” or “dark” data center has been designed to eliminate the need for human intervention so that system admins and managers can deal with mission critical development and process improvement projects vs. spending all their time fighting fires. These “lights out” data center initiatives have allowed managers to achieve the following: Lower TCO – [...] Read More

Going Data Center Green in 2007

In 2005, “green” data centers were only for the most bleeding edge IT shops that had their current energy requirements under control and could invest in forward thinking initiatives. Well for the rest of us, our number just came up…it’s 2007 and it’s time to go green! We can all agree: server sprawl is a [...] Read More