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Clouds Keep Crashing

The Cloud Keeps Crashing.  Will the Sky Fall Next? When reporting on some recent outages of cloud services from Google and Microsoft, Kevin McCaney at GCN recently asked the question:  “is this the new normal”? It’s an interesting question to pose, but let’s take it a step further:  ”Are outages of key IT services becoming [...] Read More

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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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Announcement – HP Partners with Egenera

After almost a year of collaboration, we are pleased to announce today that Egenera has formed a partnership with HP. The result of our joint work is Egenera’s PAN Manager for HP BladeSystem software. Read More

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Truth in Analysis: Is UCS Really a Money Saver?

Cisco recently posted a case study on deploying their UCS at a customer site, Slumberland. Once again, I’d like to dissect the study and cut through the marketing Spin and FUD. I’ll approach this analysis the same way I did back in April and then June ’09 when Cisco also tried to Snow the market [...] 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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