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Posted in Dynamic Data Center, Green Computing, Industry on Dec 17th, 2008
The promise of reinvigorating the economy through strategic government investment is appealing. Obama’s economic recovery plan is deeply rooted in leveraging technology; there hasn’t been this much talk about driving technology adoption since Al Gore. The plan put forth by Obama’s team centers on two main themes: green our economy and redefine our industries by [...]
Posted in Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Dynamic Data Center, Green Computing, High Availability, IO Virtualization, OEM Partners, Virtualization on Dec 1st, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Green Computing, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Uncategorized, Virtualization on Oct 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
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 Green Computing on May 15th, 2008
That wise prophet Kermit once said, “It’s not easy being green.” Actually, it is, but you wouldn’t get that impression based on some of the “green solutions” we’re seeing in the market.
Isn’t the easiest way to reduce power and cooling to remove those things that create demand for power and cooling? Physical devices are the [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Apr 2nd, 2008
The parallel between computing as a true utility (like water or electricity) has often been made, but seldom realized. In the past, utility offerings have been more like financial models by offering computing capacity on demand…when you turn it on, you start paying for it. But that is just a financial model (not a true [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Green Computing on Jun 28th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Apr 6th, 2007
A “darkened” or “dark” data center has been designed to eliminate the need for human intervention so that system admins and managers can deal with mission critical development and process improvement projects vs. spending all their time fighting fires. These “lights out” data center initiatives have allowed managers to achieve the following:
Lower TCO - By [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Mar 15th, 2007
In 2005, “green” data centers were only for the most bleeding edge IT shops that had their current energy requirements under control and could invest in forward thinking initiatives. Well for the rest of us, our number just came up…it’s 2007 and it’s time to go green!
We can all agree: server sprawl is a very [...]
Posted in Green Computing on Jan 23rd, 2007
Even though it is the middle of winter (at least in North America) and oil prices are at a 12-month low, people are still talking about energy. The new Congress announced it will focus on energy independence and sources of alternative energy – with goals of reducing the cost and environmental impact of producing energy. [...]