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SOA done right: the Amazon strategy

I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful. I met some fellow bloggers and a lot of smart folks from massive scale websites, and some that hope to become massive scale websites.What is the...

Tags: Software, Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Google's three rules

They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software. Costly corporate kit, like RAID arrays and 15k FC...

Tags: Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Warp speed file serving with pNFS

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop.Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file servingThe Network File System NFS is the oldest NAS Network Attached Storage protocol. Developed by Sun in the '80s and made an open standard, NFS makes files on the network available...

Tags: Clusters, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Additional Resources

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...

Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

In-class computers vs. labs

In-class computers vs. labswhat happened to the "teaching"Your article left out the teaching aspect. When teaching to a group, via a full lab, isn't attention span better or at least better managed? Isn't individual progress to an assigned task more measurable?Didn't Dell have a program where 2-3 clusters of computers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology

Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technologyWhat about application clustering?The initial points in this article are very true. Another important category for Virtualization/Clustering is application clustering, which can very ideally be replaced and supplemented using virtualization technologies.As an example of an "off the shelf" solution, we can examine Red...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, virtualization, virtual machine technology, virtual machine

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Virtualization slapdown: clusters versus virtual machine technology

A friend in the industry recently asked for my opinion on an interesting question "is virtualization becoming a replacement for clustering?" I knew he really meant the combination of virtual machine software and management software for virtualized environments that provided orchestration and automation capabilities. Here is my answer to that...

Tags: Software, Virtualization, Clustering, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Many degrees of multi-tenancy

Many degrees of multi-tenancyGood points, what many people miss is ...The cost of the more expensive hardware required to run fewer "clusters" far offsets the added licensing costs, management software costs, and people costs of running many varied smaller configurations. Think TCO, not hardware cost.RE: Many degrees of multi-tenancyI...

Tags: Scripting languages, cloud computing, SaaS Model, DB Level, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

ManageIQ releases EVM 2.0

Joe Fitzgerald, CEO of ManageIQ, gave me an update on what his company was doing and the improvements that would be in the second version of the company's Enterprise Virtualization Management™ EVM Suite. Joe's rich experience in management technology really shows during our discussions. Here's...

Tags: Virtual Environment, Resource, Virtual Machine, ManageIQ, Joe, EVM Suite Version 2.0, EVM Control, VM, Policy Template Library, Desktop Virtualization, RSS, Internet, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-11

PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer

Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Build your own Google

In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...

Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Conversation with Platform Computing's Songnian Zhou

Platform Computing has been a player in virtual processing and management software for virtualized resources since 1992. Platform LSF has been the company's flagship product since those early days. It has found a home in electronics, financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing and oil/gas. I've been following them since I...

Tags: Environment, Platform Computing Inc., Grid Environment, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-03

If Brian likes it, it's gotta be good

My Irregular colleague Brian Sommer waxes lyrical about the OpenAir/NetSuite deal. Brian has more years' experience implementing and analyzing business applications than most others I know. If he says something is good, then that's high praise and well worth a buyer's attention. Condensing Brian's analysis: We believe this deal...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Back-office, Brian Sommer, Operational Accounting, Product Development, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-02

CMBA - CallManager Basic Administration v6.0 or v5.1

Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsNow running both CUCM 6.0 and CM 5.1 in all labs! Exclusively at Global Knowledge, you choose the version of Cisco Unified Communications...

Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Administration, IP Telephony, IP, Training, Cisco Systems Inc., PSTN, VOIP, Network Technology, Workforce Management, Networking, Telecommunications, Human Resources

Training 2008-06-01

On-demand Webcast: How to Implement Disaster Recovery for Complex IT Configurations

How do you manage disaster recovery plans for complex IT configurations? Do you need to protect data stored on Windows and UNIX and perhaps replicate to a less expensive platform, such as Linux? Cluster configurations offer high availability, but how do you overcome the challenges of planning and managing a...

Tags: Information Technology, On-demand, Virtual Server, Configuration, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-05-28

Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port

Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-16

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 23 of 24): Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing (Level 200)

The presenter of this webcast takes a look at the new features and enhancements in high availability options for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. The presenter reviews the simplified cluster setup that can make deploying and configuration failover clusters easier while reducing configuration errors. The presenter then discusses changes...

Tags: Network Load Balancing, Webcast, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, High Availability, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-05-16

Unixfication II

Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...

Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-08