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Infrastructure Management Approaches: Band-Aids vs. Cures

This blog entry is about the need to simplify data centers, not to mask or automate the stuff that’s there already. And it’s about Converged Infrastructure: what it is and why you should know about it. And finally, it’s about why some of today’s infrastructure management products – which simply manipulate in-place complexity – are [...] Read More

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

Sometimes first-movers DO have advantages

Lots of buzz in the air about Cisco entering the server market with the Unified Computing System – using the words “Revolutionary”, “Breakthrough”, etc.   Now, to have Cisco enter the server market is certainly revolutionary… but neither their technology nor their business value is particulary new. But their marketing sure turned-up the volume on it [...] Read More

First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal

It appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO). This is the first of a pipeline of customers buying-into Infrastructure Orchestration (also referred to as Fabric Computing or Unified Computing) – first offered in 2001 [...] Read More

Virtualization’s definition broadens, and so do management technologies

VMBlog’s David Marshall has begun a series titled “Prediction 2009: The future of Virtualization” and has been polling industry representatives on their perspectives. In my contribution to the series I believe that during 2009, we will see the market for virtualization finally evolve. It will expand from the current myopic perspective of hardware virtualization to [...] Read More