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It’s Deja Vu all over again!

Yogi Berra said it, Cisco just reconfirmed it. Reviewing Cisco’s much-leaked, and much hyped announcement of Project California was like a trip down memory lane. Blade Form Factor – Check! Unified Fabric for IP and Storage traffic – Check! Management Console – Check! Integration with Virtual Machine Management – Check! Sounds oh so PAN like [...] Read More

PAN now available on Dell blade servers

Last year, Egenera announced support for Dell rack mount servers, extending the Processing Area Network architecture to off-the-shelf, industry standard servers. This combination joins the best-in-class Unified Fabric architecture (PAN) with the best-in-class industry standard hardware from Dell. The solution earned early praise from customers and has proven to be a terrific offering for the [...] Read More

California Dreamin’……

Wow, everyone is talking, blogging, writing about Cisco’s potential entry in to the server market. Cisco’s CTO blogged about it recently, and while there are no specifics, she certainly made it clear that Cisco will enter new markets and compete with current partners. James Staten of Forrester took a stab at defining what the new [...] Read More

Is Innovation Dead?

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 [...] Read More

Provisioning for the new world

In my last couple of posts, I discussed the journey that we are on and how applications will be purchased and deployed going forward. In this post, I’ll discuss how I see systems being provisioned to support these applications. In order to support an environment where applications are purchased as a service, with performance and [...] Read More

It’s still all about the apps…

In my last post we took a bit of a journey back through time looking at various technology waves of the past. In this entry, I want to explore how I think applications will be purchased going forward, as it’s important to understand the business model, which has a direct impact on the underlying technology. [...] Read More