Covering Data Center Availability, Responsiveness and Converged Infrastructure
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Dynamic Data Center, IO Virtualization, Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Green Computing, High Availability, IO Virtualization, Uncategorized, Virtualization on Oct 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News, Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008
My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered. Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2008
It’s my turn to blog and there is a lot to discuss. Let’s start with the notion of a truly reliable and responsive IT function. As a CEO of a relatively large company, it’s easy to define what the ideal IT function looks like. I want an extremely reliable systems environment. I want an environment [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2008
In my last post I said I’d be writing a series of posts on where I think the data center is headed. This is the first in that series and it starts with my blueprint of the journey that we’re all on to simplify the data center…customers and vendors alike.
If you look back at the [...]