Egenera Virtualization Blog

Is Innovation Dead?

Pete Manca — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:33:48 +0000

I read with great interest the J.D. Morris blog on the death of independent enterprise hardware and software companies. It’s an interesting and thought provoking read. However, it’s also one that I’ve read many times in my career. Every time we hit a snag, someone predicts the death of innovative new companies and it usually [...]

Realigning for a Stronger Future

Mike Thompson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:50:43 +0000

Change can be painful, but if we ignore the need for change the end result is often worse. Egenera is evolving and it was necessary to re-align our business model and company infrastructure, resulting in the decision to lay off about 28% of our global workforce. It would be easy to blame it all on [...]

Not the Time to Turtle…

Christine Crandell — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:57:30 +0000

We can’t ignore the fact that the overall economy has caught a bad case of the flu, but the fact is that the demands on IT have not changed as a result of the economy. It’s easy to get distracted in times like these – but we’ve all got to focus…harder than ever before. Data centers [...]

Change We Can All Believe In

Don George — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:43:15 +0000

Being here in our Nation’s Capital at this time of year, we’re on the verge of dramatic changes. I’m not talking about just the obvious changes coming November 4, but to Federal computing environments and their data centers as well. No question about it - change is coming at us from every angle. The list of [...]

Building Blocks to a Reliable Dynamic Data Center

Christine Crandell — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:35:42 +0000

There are a number of challenges facing data center managers today – not just the sudden curtailment of investments due to the economic situation. Data centers are in the midst of one of the largest transformations in decades. The shift is driven by more than just new technology. New business models that extend corporate systems [...]

The Disappearing Edge

Clint Eschberger — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:29:07 +0000

Server Virtualization started simple enough - a way to consolidate multiple application servers to a single physical host. We might say it was learning to walk before running. At first we saw a move of test and development applications making the move to reduce costs and footprint. Over the last few years however we’ve entered [...]

Criteria for Value: What do you ask yourself?

Norman Sung — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:23:23 +0000

My colleague, Christine Crandell, did a great post on her initial thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect all of us - customers, vendors and individuals. And importantly, that the opportunity for impact starts with our attitudes. It got me thinking…about who really “wins” in times like these. Value is more important than ever [...]

Cloud Computing: The Web Grows Up (maybe)

Christine Crandell — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:58:13 +0000

Late last week, SDForum in San Jose, CA, hosted a standing-room only conference on Cloud Computing. The speakers were a good mix of industry analysts, end-users and vendors with a very lively audience that asked some great questions. There were several key take-aways from where I sat…most notably that Cloud Computing is part of the [...]

Financial Crisis: Digging-in for the long haul

Christine Crandell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:54:21 +0000

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 [...]

Provisioning for the new world

Pete Manca — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:21 +0000

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 [...]