Everybody’s talking about IT infrastructure/operations simplification, but only a few are taking concrete action to do something about it.
So consider two views of simplification: (1) simplification at the “modular building-block” scale, and (2) simplification at the management/operations scale.
Egenera’s customers have been driving us on both of these issues, hence our announcement of a number of [...]
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Yogi Berra said it, Cisco just reconfirmed it.
Reviewing Cisco’s much-leaked, and much hyped announcement of Project California was like a trip down memory lane.
Blade Form Factor - Check!
Unified Fabric for IP and Storage traffic - Check!
Management Console - Check!
Integration with Virtual Machine Management - Check!
Sounds oh so PAN like to me. If imitation is indeed [...]
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Last year, Egenera announced support for Dell rack mount servers, extending the Processing Area Network architecture to off-the-shelf, industry standard servers. This combination joins the best-in-class Unified Fabric architecture (PAN) with the best-in-class industry standard hardware from Dell. The solution earned early praise from customers and has proven to be a terrific offering for the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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