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DRaaS — Disaster Recovery as a Service

Everyone wants to provide a service.  We are all too familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS). But in the beginning there was IaaS (infrastructure as a service), platform as a service (PaaS) and, more recently, Desktop as a Service and Storage as a Service. And now, in the ever-expanding world of “IT as a [...] Read More

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Demand Platform-Independent Converged Infrastructure

Compared to 12 months ago, the term “converged infrastructure” is now practically a commonplace term. All major vendors — Cisco, HP, IBM — are offering their corporate version, their interpretation, their pre-configured systems.  And the press & analysts are eating-up the marketing for all of these proprietary solutions. Meanwhile, in the adjacent cloud computing space, [...] Read More

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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

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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

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A closer look at Cisco pricing

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 [...] Read More

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“Oz”

“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 brought me to a [...] Read More

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