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, another different [...]
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Egenera announced a new version of Dell PAN System and PAN Manager Software today that greatly expands the scalability of PAN Manager on a number of fronts. PAN Manager can now manage more blades on a single converged fabric , more VMs, and more servers. It also increases the IO throughput, utilizing 10Gbps Ethernet uplinks, [...]
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Posted in Blade Servers, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Dynamic Data Center, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Industry, OEM Partners, Virtualization on Dec 3rd, 2009
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 center [...]
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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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VMBlog’s David Marshall has begun a series titled “Prediction 2009: The future of Virtualization” and has been polling industry representatives on their perspectives.
In my contribution to the series I believe that during 2009, we will see the market for virtualization finally evolve. It will expand from the current myopic perspective of hardware virtualization to include [...]
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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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Today Egenera & Dell announced the start of shipping their Dell / PAN system. I believe this marks a new strategic direction for the company, and hopefully, a new set of infrastructure management options for mission-critical users of any kind of physical/virtual environment.
Egenera has been best known for combining its high-performance BladeFrame hardware with its [...]
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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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