Covering Data Center Reliability, Dynamics, and Infrastructure Management
Posted in Industry News on Oct 17th, 2008
There are a number of challenges facing data center managers today – not just the sudden curtailment of investments due to the economic situation. Data centers are in the midst of one of the largest transformations in decades. The shift is driven by more than just new technology. New business models that extend corporate systems [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Oct 7th, 2008
Server Virtualization started simple enough - a way to consolidate multiple application servers to a single physical host. We might say it was learning to walk before running. At first we saw a move of test and development applications making the move to reduce costs and footprint. Over the last few years however we’ve entered [...]
Posted in Industry, Industry News on Oct 6th, 2008
My colleague, Christine Crandell, did a great post on her initial thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect all of us - customers, vendors and individuals. And importantly, that the opportunity for impact starts with our attitudes. It got me thinking…about who really “wins” in times like these. Value is more important than ever [...]
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News, Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008
My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered. Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...]
Posted in Industry News on Sep 25th, 2008
It almost felt like back to school for technology last week at VMworld – a lot of excitement and movement in the industry. Not to mention, more attendees, more vendors and more vision. I had a blast!
Predictably, everyone I talked to has some deployment of virtualization in production. Of course, they were familiar with virtual [...]
Posted in Industry News on Jul 9th, 2008
Yesterday marked what can perhaps be seen as an end to an era with the departure of Diane Greene from VMware. The company’s brilliant and meteoric growth, and its dominance in the “Server Virtualization” space cannot be denied. In some ways, we can all thank VMware for shining a brighter light on how customers can [...]
Posted in Industry News on Dec 22nd, 2007
After attending Larry Ellison’s exciting keynote address at Oracle World 2006, it was clear to me that Oracle Grid is still one of the top product initiatives that Oracle is working on. Larry mentioned how Oracle Grid or what many of us call Oracle RAC (real application clusters) allows Database Administrators to string 50 commodity [...]
Posted in Industry News on Dec 5th, 2007
Does Solaris 10 x86 work? Is it just hype? Is anyone using it? We get asked these questions a lot at Egenera. Solaris x86 is here to stay and adoption seems to be growing. The combination of bulletproof Solaris and commodity-based hardware components with mainframe class software is just too attractive to ignore. Like many [...]
Posted in Industry News on Nov 27th, 2007
Wow, did you catch all of the announcements for new hypervisors? Oracle has one…. Sun has one… Microsoft unveiled their plans – and pricing, for Hyper-V…. heck, even Phoenix is planning on one. These, added to a market that includes VMware, Xensource, SWSoft, SuSE, Red Hat, IBM, Qumranet… well, you get the picture. This is [...]
Posted in Industry News on Oct 29th, 2007
Today Egenera announced we are entering the software market. We are taking the incredible power of our Processing Area Network technology and applying it to other vendor’s hardware. This is a big step for Egenera, though it’s more of a natural evolution. We are NOT getting out of the hardware business and will continue to [...]