Posted in Blade Servers, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Dynamic Data Center, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Industry, OEM Partners, Virtualization on Dec 3rd, 2009
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 center [...]
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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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With the entry of new products to the market such as Cisco’s UCS and HP’s Matrix Operating Environment - a new name for HP’s collection of tools - I thought it would be worthwhile to re-visit the architectures for Real Time Infrastructure and discuss the different approaches and what the strengths/weaknesses are of each. Specifically, [...]
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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 [...]
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Check out the post fellow blogger and colleague Ken Oestreich wrote recently. It’s a great description of the Processing Area Network. Sometimes a picture/video is better than text and Ken does a great job illustrating the architecture and value of PAN.
Given all the buzz around Cisco UCS, Ken’s blog is timely and informative. Way to [...]
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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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VMBlog’s David Marshall has begun a series titled “Prediction 2009: The future of Virtualization” and has been polling industry representatives on their perspectives.
In my contribution to the series I believe that during 2009, we will see the market for virtualization finally evolve. It will expand from the current myopic perspective of hardware virtualization to include [...]
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We all knew it had to happen at some point. You had the old guard running servers on physical platforms, sprawling through the data center, using more and more power generating more heat. Then came virtualization via the hypervisor, condensing the many physical servers into a few. This, of course, could not take care of [...]
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What is a utopian data center? It has always been desired for obvious reasons, but has never really been attainable. Data centers have become overly complex over the last decade due to so many different levels of management to keep up with the growing demand of servers and trying to keep it from getting out [...]
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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 [...]
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