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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 [...] Read More

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Moving beyond legacy

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 [...] Read More

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Where we’ve been…where we’re going

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, [...] Read More

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Moore’s Law: Still relevant?

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 [...] Read More

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Grid: Feeling the pressure

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 [...] Read More

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Virtualization means big business

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 [...] Read More

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