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“What’s Next?”

Yesterday marked what can perhaps be seen as an end to an era with the departure of Diane Greene from VMware. The company’s brilliant and meteoric growth, and its dominance in the “Server Virtualization” space cannot be denied. In some ways, we can all thank VMware for shining a brighter light on how customers can [...] Read More

Paying by the drink

The parallel between computing as a true utility (like water or electricity) has often been made, but seldom realized. In the past, utility offerings have been more like financial models by offering computing capacity on demand…when you turn it on, you start paying for it. But that is just a financial model (not a true [...] Read More

What is Virtualization 2.0?

We’re almost into March of 2008, so it would be silly for me to provide any “predictions” for 2008.  However virtualization is huge in the market, so lets focus on where that will go over the next 12 months.  Some define the next phase as Virtualization 2.0, but what is Virtualization 2.0 really? Last year, [...] Read More

When will the “virtual data center” be a reality?

The last two weeks have been chock full of major virtualization announcements, including two industry giants throwing their weight behind Xen. In a matter of days, Oracle announced Oracle VM and Sun launched xVM. First of all, they’re free! Second, Oracle has certified nine of its products for use with Oracle VM, including its database, [...] Read More

Data center management: something like heart surgery?

I read the title of this Network World article and immediately starting thinking about whether a hospital and data center are at all alike.  What do you think? Is a data center like a hospital? Let’s take a look… Minimal administrative resources: * In a hospital, healthcare providers are forced to operate under extremely constrained [...] Read More

Data center agility is heating up!

Industry analysts predict that agility will be a critical success factor going forward for the majority of data centers.  This is due to the growing importance of IT in business as the supply chain is more connected: vendors to customers, partners to each other. The technologies that will enable data center agility are heating up [...] Read More