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“What’s Next?”

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 [...] Read More

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Grid is Great…But the Platform Matters!

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 [...] Read More

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Solaris 10 x86: Mission Critical or Mission Possible?

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 [...] Read More

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Hypervisor Market Commoditizing Quickly

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 [...] Read More

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Egenera enters the software market

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 [...] Read More

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Virtualization Market Matures

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 [...] Read More

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