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Posted in Industry News on Sep 25th, 2008
It almost felt like back to school for technology last week at VMworld – a lot of excitement and movement in the industry. Not to mention, more attendees, more vendors and more vision. I had a blast!
Predictably, everyone I talked to has some deployment of virtualization in production. Of course, they were familiar with virtual [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery on Aug 4th, 2008
I’ve finally put my virtual pen to paper to contribute to our growing blog! I’m Vern Brownell, the founder of Egenera. I was an IT infrastructure customer eight years ago when I decided to create Egenera.
The inspiration for our technology was the frustration that I had with the complexity and brittleness of [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Virtualization on Mar 11th, 2008
There have been a slew of articles speculating that Disaster Recovery is the next killer app for Server Virtualization. The premise is that since the OS and application are abstracted from the hardware, it’s simple to move the entire stack from one location to another, and presto – DR solved!
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. While [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Virtualization on Jul 27th, 2007
Virtualization, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Green IT (power and cooling)! These three topics are headlining the tech sections of newspapers around the globe, and businesses are smartly marketing their products around this tidal wave of buzz. Everywhere you look, it’s the same themes.
Take for example, CNBC’s Mad Money, one of my favorite shows. Jim Cramer [...]
Posted in Data Center Virtualization, Disaster Recovery on Jul 9th, 2007
The traditional mindset around disaster recovery has been that it is too expensive for anyone other than the large enterprise. DR meant a second data center with 2x the number of servers and infrastructure and 2x the management complexity (every change had to be replicated at two locations). We’ve all talked about this here before.
Many [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery, Green Computing on Jun 28th, 2007
It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way.
Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)? It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had to [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery on Feb 9th, 2007
A flu pandemic…it’s almost beyond comprehension in this day and age. But it’s a very real concern. The CDC has made recommendations in response to outbreaks of a feared flu pandemic. For a category 5 pandemic, the CDC recommends closing schools for 1-3 months. Think about that for a minute…imagine the impact something like this [...]
Posted in Disaster Recovery on Jan 9th, 2007
Disaster recovery strategies are not new. In fact, many CIOs and IT Managers have DR mandates by executive management. The ever growing possibility of severe weather, power failures, terrorist attacks, pandemics, or even a fire or HVAC leaks in the datacenter are all driving this focus. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiatives are [...]