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Perched at the Inflection Point

Egenera – as well as much of the IT industry – is standing at an exciting point in its evolution. When Egenera was founded in 2000, nearly nobody had heard of virtual I/O or converged networking. In fact, blade servers were hardly part of the vernacular. But the company had a vision of simplified data [...] Read More

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RAC Moves Mainstream – But Slower Than It Could Have?

Gartner’s recent article Oracle RAC Moved to Mainstream Use made me think about how important Oracle’s work has been around RAC — but also how its progress could have been even faster if not for stubborn complexity of the underlying physical infrastructure. Let me explain with an example. Oracle Grid, aka Oracle RAC, allows database [...] Read More

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The New Digital Age Economy?

The promise of reinvigorating the economy through strategic government investment is appealing.  Obama’s economic recovery plan is deeply rooted in leveraging technology; there hasn’t been this much talk about driving technology adoption since Al Gore.   The plan put forth by Obama’s team centers on two main themes:  green our economy and redefine our industries by [...] Read More

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“Oz”

“It’s a journey.  A journey for us as vendors and a journey for you as customers.”  This is a quote from an IT vendor presentation given at a virtualization conference I recently attended.  The presentation was all about the “journey”.  I was very impressed and equally amazed.   The journey was great – it brought me to a [...] Read More

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Is Innovation Dead?

I read with great interest the J.D. Morris blog on the death of independent enterprise hardware and software companies. It’s an interesting and thought provoking read. However, it’s also one that I’ve read many times in my career.  Every time we hit a snag, someone predicts the death of innovative new companies and it usually [...] Read More

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Not the Time to Turtle…

We can’t ignore the fact that the overall economy has caught a bad case of the flu, but the fact is that the demands on IT have not changed as a result of the economy.  It’s easy to get distracted in times like these – but we’ve all got to focus…harder than ever before. Data [...] Read More

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