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Analysis: Where vendors are placing their data center bets

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 [...] Read More

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Egenera’s Big Three Differentiators

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 [...] Read More

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Infrastructure Management Approaches: Band-Aids vs. Cures

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 [...] Read More

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First-Mover Advantage & Unified Computing

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 [...] Read More

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A great description of PAN

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 [...] Read More

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First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal

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 [...] Read More

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