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- The real pros and cons of server virtualization
- YepVMwear is starting to look like Windoze - adding unneeded functionality just because it can. Moving VMs around from server to server live - is COOL. But why do you need it? If you are on a consolidation binge and utilization is king, then there will be no "extra" capacity...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Virtualization, server virtualization, VMwear, server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-07
- ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
- Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...
- Tags: Operating systems, Keyboards, multi-core processor, Intel Corp., chip, operating system, keyboard, ARM
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Grid Computing Now! - Predicting Business Needs
- The ad hoc infrastructure built up by IT departments over the years has created islands of computation. Each application tends to have its own dedicated server and storage. Capacity is essentially fixed for each, so businesses have to purchase extra server and storage capacity to meet peak demand (which is...
- Tags: Quocirca, Grid Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-20
- Virtualization: IT's own global warming
- Virtualization: IT's own global warmingWell said...The arguments you presented were cogent, appropriate and well stated. I really needed this for my own sanity in my ongoing and sometimes ineffectual fight against this very thing.In addition to defining the the reasons better, you added ones I didn't think of. Your words...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, ROI/TCO, Servers, global warming, information technology, virtualization, server, physical machine, ESX, memory
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Virtualization: IT's own global warming
- The argument for PC style virtualization, in which a hypervisor switches between OS/application bundles on demand, is extremely simple: license something like VMware ESX to run multiple copies of the OS and therefore strongly separated applications on a single machine, and you can use the same server for multiple...
- Tags: Database Management, Enterprise Policy, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- IT Customer Service
- A lot of people complain about the arrogance of IT people and our general failure to understand either the customer or the business. So what happens when IT is the business? or, at least, where IT has a clear role on the customer service delivery side? Well it depends first...
- Tags: data processing, utilisation
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- A followup on server consolidation
- About a week ago in this blog I discussed the history of both virtualization and partitioning as solutions to problems we no longer have -and which we therefore no longer need. I was thinking only in terms of how these technology ideas are being misapplied in the Unix world but,...
- Tags: Unix, network
- Blog posts 2005-06-02
- A followup on server consolidation
- About a week ago in this blog I discussed the history of both virtualization and partitioning as solutions to problems we no longer have -and which we therefore no longer need. I was thinking only in terms of how these technology ideas are being misapplied in the Unix world but,...
- Tags: network, Unix
- Blog posts 2005-06-02
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