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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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 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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Posted in Cloud Computing on Jun 17th, 2008
I’ve been reading a lot about cloud computing lately. Seems like everyone has an opinion. One of my favorites was an interesting comparison on the buzz (measured by Google Trends) that Cloud is getting compared to Utility, Grid, etc.
Me personally… I’m still trying to grok what it all means. Seems to me that Clouds [...]
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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 [...]
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Well, 2008 is in full swing and I’ve been remiss in my blogging. It’s been a very busy time…but no excuses. 2007 was a breakout year for virtualization, as it finally hit the mainstream. But where do we go from here?
The virtualization “wave” is just forming. And while server virtualization is at full crest, there [...]
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Posted in Industry News on Nov 27th, 2007
Wow, did you catch all of the announcements for new hypervisors? Oracle has one…. Sun has one… Microsoft unveiled their plans – and pricing, for Hyper-V…. heck, even Phoenix is planning on one. These, added to a market that includes VMware, Xensource, SWSoft, SuSE, Red Hat, IBM, Qumranet… well, you get the picture. This is [...]
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