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DRaaS — Disaster Recovery as a Service

Everyone wants to provide a service.  We are all too familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS). But in the beginning there was IaaS (infrastructure as a service), platform as a service (PaaS) and, more recently, Desktop as a Service and Storage as a Service. And now, in the ever-expanding world of “IT as a [...] Read More

What Does Missoni Have to Do With Business Continuity?

  Missoni Madness   Missoni Madness. Missoni Mayhem. Missoni Mania. All have been cited by the media as reference to the phenomenon that caused Target’s web site to crash yesterday when consumers flooded the retailer online with hopes of scoring an item from the limited-edition, low-cost designer collection from Italian fashion designer Missoni. Target.com was [...] Read More

View from VMworld: Mainstream Adoption Yields Mainstream Challenges

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 [...] Read More

On my mind…

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 the computing [...] Read More

Is Disaster Recovery the next killer app for virtualization?

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. [...] Read More

Tying it all together

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 [...] Read More