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Open Always Wins

I read with great interest the recent blog written by Chuck Hollis of EMC. It was an excellent post about the difficulty and challenges of creating a Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution that is real, as opposed to “funding and PowerPoint”. In the blog, Chuck points out several things a vendor has to achieve in order [...] Read More

Egenera announces Dell PAN System 3.0 & PAN Manager 6.0

Egenera announced a new version of Dell PAN System and PAN Manager Software today that greatly expands the scalability of PAN Manager on a number of fronts. PAN Manager can now manage more blades on a single converged fabric , more VMs, and more servers. It also increases the IO throughput, utilizing 10Gbps Ethernet uplinks, [...] Read More

Perched at the Inflection Point

Egenera – as well as much of the IT industry – is standing at an exciting point in its evolution. When Egenera was founded in 2000, nearly nobody had heard of virtual I/O or converged networking. In fact, blade servers were hardly part of the vernacular. But the company had a vision of simplified data [...] Read More

Explaining RTI architectures

With the entry of new products to the market such as Cisco’s UCS and HP’s Matrix Operating Environment – a new name for HP’s collection of tools – I thought it would be worthwhile to re-visit the architectures for Real Time Infrastructure and discuss the different approaches and what the strengths/weaknesses are of each. Specifically, [...] Read More

Virtual Switching – What’s it all about?

Seems like virtual switches are now the new “it” thing. Cisco announced one that plugs in to VMWare environments. Now comes news from Citrix Syngergy that they are also developing a virtual switch for Xen and KVM. Why all the buzz over virtual switching? There are 2 good reasons for virtual switches  – one is [...] Read More

A great description of PAN

Check out the post fellow blogger and colleague Ken Oestreich wrote recently. It’s a great description of the Processing Area Network. Sometimes a picture/video is better than text and Ken does a great job illustrating the architecture and value of PAN. Given all the buzz around Cisco UCS, Ken’s blog is timely and informative. Way [...] Read More