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Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Green Computing, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Virtualization on Aug 15th, 2008
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]