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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Virtualization cuts across just about all of what you might find in the data center. Clients, servers, applications, storage systems, data networks, and security can all be virtualized to one degree or another. And chief executives are discovering that virtualization has the potential to not only improve the balance sheet, but strengthen competitive advantage and [...]
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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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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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Posted in Disaster Recovery on Aug 4th, 2008
I’ve finally put my virtual pen to paper to contribute to our growing blog! I’m Vern Brownell, the founder of Egenera. I was an IT infrastructure customer eight years ago when I decided to create Egenera.
The inspiration for our technology was the frustration that I had with the complexity and brittleness of [...]
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There have been a slew of articles speculating that Disaster Recovery is the next killer app for Server Virtualization. The premise is that since the OS and application are abstracted from the hardware, it’s simple to move the entire stack from one location to another, and presto – DR solved!
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. While [...]
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Virtualization, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Green IT (power and cooling)! These three topics are headlining the tech sections of newspapers around the globe, and businesses are smartly marketing their products around this tidal wave of buzz. Everywhere you look, it’s the same themes.
Take for example, CNBC’s Mad Money, one of my favorite shows. Jim Cramer [...]
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The traditional mindset around disaster recovery has been that it is too expensive for anyone other than the large enterprise. DR meant a second data center with 2x the number of servers and infrastructure and 2x the management complexity (every change had to be replicated at two locations). We’ve all talked about this here before.
Many [...]
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It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way.
Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)? It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had to [...]
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Posted in Disaster Recovery on Feb 9th, 2007
A flu pandemic…it’s almost beyond comprehension in this day and age. But it’s a very real concern. The CDC has made recommendations in response to outbreaks of a feared flu pandemic. For a category 5 pandemic, the CDC recommends closing schools for 1-3 months. Think about that for a minute…imagine the impact something like this [...]
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