We all knew it had to happen at some point. You had the old guard running servers on physical platforms, sprawling through the data center, using more and more power generating more heat. Then came virtualization via the hypervisor, condensing the many physical servers into a few. This, of course, could not take care of [...]
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What is a utopian data center? It has always been desired for obvious reasons, but has never really been attainable. Data centers have become overly complex over the last decade due to so many different levels of management to keep up with the growing demand of servers and trying to keep it from getting out [...]
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My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered. Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...]
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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 [...]
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In my last post we took a bit of a journey back through time looking at various technology waves of the past. In this entry, I want to explore how I think applications will be purchased going forward, as it’s important to understand the business model, which has a direct impact on the underlying technology.
The [...]
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Summer time is great for vacation, especially in the North East where we get about 6 good weeks of weather all year! It’s also a great time to reflect and think about where we as an IT community are heading.
I’m going to post a series of blogs on where I think the industry is going, [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Industry News on Jul 9th, 2008
Yesterday marked what can perhaps be seen as an end to an era with the departure of Diane Greene from VMware. The company’s brilliant and meteoric growth, and its dominance in the “Server Virtualization” space cannot be denied. In some ways, we can all thank VMware for shining a brighter light on how customers can [...]
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