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Archive for IO Virtualization Category

Unified Management- Protecting you infrastructure

The task of going virtual can appear daunting. Complexity and cost are both major concerns as implementation and maintenance projects creep in their scope. One of the major sources of complexity is the need to manage and protect both your physical and virtual infrastructure separately. Unified management platforms are the solution to this problem. By [...] Read More

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Egenera BladeFrame: The Oldest New IT Architecture

What’s Old is Still in Vogue When was the last time you saw a data center computing architecture that was 10 years old, yet going strong? You may not realize it, but the Egenera BladeFrame is just that. It was created back in 2001 by Vern Brownell (previously CTO at Goldman Sachs) and is still [...] Read More

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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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On The Virtues of (IT) Simplicity

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 [...] Read More

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Explaining RTI architectures

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, [...] 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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