Egenera Blog

…or, Having Your Data Center Cake and Eating It Too
If unified computing and converged infrastructure are breakthrough IT management concepts, then I’m still mystified why more users don’t protest and ask for more universal, Open converged infrastructure platforms – in addition to the platform-specific ones hardware vendors offer.
In response, Egenera is taking another step towards [...]

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Or, The tale of the universal remote vs. integrated audio
There are 2 IT infrastructure management philosophies within in the vendor community you should know about…  And you need to know how they’ll impact control data center infrastructures, cloud infrastructures, and IT operations.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog about Band-Aids vs Cures, the two [...]

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Today, as in nearly every day, I had a conversation with someone who suddenly latches-on to the concept of Converged Infrastructure – it’s elegant, simple, efficient, effective. They get excited about its versatility, and how virtualization-of-the-infrastructure is the analogous next step to virtualization-of-the-OS.
Then… they inevitably ask “But what are your differentiators?”.  And that’s the easy [...]

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This blog entry is about the need to simplify data centers, not to mask or automate the stuff that’s there already. And it’s about Converged Infrastructure: what it is and why you should know about it. And finally, it’s about why some of today’s infrastructure management products – which simply manipulate in-place complexity – are [...]

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I had to chuckle a bit when I read a recent claim that Cisco’s UCS was the “first” unified computing system certified on Oracle 10g and 11g RAC.  That’s just plain false.
So stop the presses: To set the record straight, it was actually Egenera (using PAN Manager software) that was first… announcing 9i support back [...]

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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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It appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO).
This is the first of a pipeline of customers buying-into Infrastructure Orchestration (also referred to as Fabric Computing or Unified Computing) - first offered in 2001 [...]

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Wow, everyone is talking, blogging, writing about Cisco’s potential entry in to the server market. Cisco’s CTO blogged about it recently, and while there are no specifics, she certainly made it clear that Cisco will enter new markets and compete with current partners. James Staten of Forrester took a stab at defining what the new [...]

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Over the next several posts I’ll be exploring the impact the financial crisis is having on all of us - vendors, customers, individuals and leaders. I hope we’ll get some good discussion going - and be able to openly explore how we all can manage through this. After all, challenges breed opportunities.
The financial market troubles [...]

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In my last couple of posts, I discussed the journey that we are on and how applications will be purchased and deployed going forward. In this post, I’ll discuss how I see systems being provisioned to support these applications.
In order to support an environment where applications are purchased as a service, with performance and availability [...]

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