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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 [...]
Posted in Industry News on Oct 19th, 2007
Even with the incredible traction virtualization is making in the market it’s still easy to get confused as to what virtualization means in every case. Is it server virtualization provided by hypervisors like Xen or ESX? Is it storage virtualization? Network virtualization? Broadly, it’s all of the above.
One thing that’s clear is that the market [...]
Posted in Industry News on Aug 20th, 2007
Wow, go away for a little vacation and look what happens… VMWare has a killer IPO (not a surprise), XenSource gets bought for a HUGE multiple (big surprise), and IBM agrees to license Solaris x86 for their blade servers (even bigger surprise).
VMWare’s IPO was a great showing for the power of virtualization. They have built [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Jun 15th, 2007
So why have IBM, HP and Sun dominated the enterprise server market for so long? No it’s not because of the many millions of dollars they put towards marketing and advertising (although they do of course). It’s that they continue to leverage the massive install base they’ve amassed - customers they can “lock in” because [...]
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News on May 21st, 2007
Earlier this year I blogged some predictions and called 2007 the year for Virtualization. Not a very aggressive prediction given what is going on in the industry, but it doesn’t make it any less accurate. But in order to get to this point, the seeds had to be sown many years ago.
In early 2000, Egenera [...]
Posted in Industry News on Apr 19th, 2007
Moore’s Law is loosely defined as the number of transistors on a chip doubling every 24 months. Most people equate this law to CPU performance and it doubling every 18 months. While it’s not an accurate definition from a historical point of view, it’s been pretty consistent. So…does this still matter? With CPU utilization averaging [...]
Posted in Industry News on Apr 9th, 2007
The “Google model” remains a constant touchpoint for most folks in the technology industry. How they do it, why it works, etc. My take has always been, “the Google model of assembling large numbers of commodity servers in a huge grid only works for certain types of applications.” Historically, grids have been really good in [...]
Posted in Industry News, Virtualization on Mar 1st, 2007
If you’re like me and you’re watching the back and forth between VMware and Microsoft regarding Windows on VMware ESX, you’re probably thinking the same thing I am…Virtualization is Big Business! You know it’s only going to get uglier between these two…and more interesting for those of us smack in the middle of the food [...]