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Guest Posting by Ken Henault, Senior Infrastructure Architect, HP

I had the privilege of working on the joint HP & Egenera team that developed the announcement materials. As the technical guy in a team it was a good learning experience. In bringing the two companies together I found things we share in common, and things that differentiate us. Read More

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Perched at the Inflection Point

Egenera – as well as much of the IT industry – is standing at an exciting point in its evolution. When Egenera was founded in 2000, nearly nobody had heard of virtual I/O or converged networking. In fact, blade servers were hardly part of the vernacular. But the company had a vision of simplified data [...] 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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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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RAC Moves Mainstream – But Slower Than It Could Have?

Gartner’s recent article Oracle RAC Moved to Mainstream Use made me think about how important Oracle’s work has been around RAC — but also how its progress could have been even faster if not for stubborn complexity of the underlying physical infrastructure. Let me explain with an example. Oracle Grid, aka Oracle RAC, allows database [...] Read More

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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

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