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, [...]
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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 to [...]
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Back on 16 April, Cisco began its marketing push on its Unified Computing System (UCS) hyping the fundamental cost savings it provides – as much as 31% over traditional approaches for a large scale-out implementation.
But after close scrutiny, Cisco either needs to check their math or adjust their pricing. Their claims about TCO, bandwidth etc. [...]
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“It’s a journey. A journey for us as vendors and a journey for you as customers.” This is a quote from an IT vendor presentation given at a virtualization conference I recently attended. The presentation was all about the “journey”. I was very impressed and equally amazed. The journey was great - it [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Oct 6th, 2008
Late last week, SDForum in San Jose, CA, hosted a standing-room only conference on Cloud Computing. The speakers were a good mix of industry analysts, end-users and vendors with a very lively audience that asked some great questions. There were several key take-aways from where I sat…most notably that Cloud Computing is part of the [...]
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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 availability [...]
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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.
The [...]
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Summer time is great for vacation, especially in the North East where we get about 6 good weeks of weather all year! It’s also a great time to reflect and think about where we as an IT community are heading.
I’m going to post a series of blogs on where I think the industry is going, [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Jun 17th, 2008
I’ve been reading a lot about cloud computing lately. Seems like everyone has an opinion. One of my favorites was an interesting comparison on the buzz (measured by Google Trends) that Cloud is getting compared to Utility, Grid, etc.
Me personally… I’m still trying to grok what it all means. Seems to me that Clouds [...]
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