We all knew it had to happen at some point. You had the old guard running servers on physical platforms, sprawling through the data center, using more and more power generating more heat. Then came virtualization via the hypervisor, condensing the many physical servers into a few. This, of course, could not take care of [...]
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What is a utopian data center? It has always been desired for obvious reasons, but has never really been attainable. Data centers have become overly complex over the last decade due to so many different levels of management to keep up with the growing demand of servers and trying to keep it from getting out [...]
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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 [...]
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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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As Ethernet speeds reached Fibre Channel’s 1Gb/s and IP became a defacto global protocol for small and large enterprises alike, it became clear that wrapping SCSI commands in TCP/IP packets may be the next standard for block transfer over networks. Even more exciting was that iSCSI would run on everyone’s favorite data center network, Ethernet. [...]
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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 Data Center Consolidation on Jun 23rd, 2008
10 Gigabit Ethernet has brought tremendous excitement and potential for big change in the datacenter I/O infrastructure and connectivity. Everyday, we are being bombarded with new terminologies and buzzwords like DCE (Data Center Ethernet), FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), CEE (Congestion Enhanced Ethernet), CFE (Congestion Free Ethernet), Unified Wire, Converged Fabrics, etc.
So, what is [...]
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Posted in Data Center Consolidation on May 9th, 2007
Are you consolidating and centralizing your data centers from “many to few”? Well, you’re not alone. Take a look at some headlines from the last year:
NASDAQ plans to consolidate data centers from the current seven down to two.
HP is consolidating its 85 data centers worldwide into six. The consolidation will help HP reduce its IT [...]
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