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The New Digital Age Economy?
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 [...]
Dell / PAN System by Egenera = Utopia
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 [...]
Provisioning for the new world
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 [...]
One Point of View
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 [...]
It’s Easy Being Green
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 [...]
Paying by the drink
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 [...]
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