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- Who benefits from data center centralization?
- Who benefits from data center centralization?The difference is in control/managementCentralized processing with decentralized control works - centralizing both does not.But notice that Wintel/data processing essentially force the centralization of both, and Unix does not. You can centralize control with Unix, but you don't have to. Instead you put everything...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
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- Is Google the Center of the Universe?
- It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- The IT theme for 2009: simplify
- The IT theme for 2009: simplifyWhat's your outlook for the cloud Murph?With the dismal economic prospects, does not the cloud factor in as a means of controlling cost and simplifying? Yes?I am a registered AWS provider.Thanks Murph.Dietrich T. Schmitz[url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]Linux IT Consultant[/url]Mildly Surprisedhow much I relate to this post. e.g.:"and prayed...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
- Domino, cryptology, and response
- Domino, cryptology, and responseCrypto futureIt's getting to the point where you might as well just encrypt the entire network. That way you can connect with any old technology, and your communication will always be encrypted. I thought it would be a great idea to do this with WiMAX - so...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Whatever happened to CMP?
- When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP†are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Conversation with AppSense
- In preparation for the upcoming VMworld, I've been speaking with representatives of quite a few suppliers who are offering something in the virtualization software space. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Martin Ingram, Vice President of Strategy for AppSense. Although I can't...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- The core claim made by N-tier architecture proponents is that this structure breaks an application into modular elements that can be separately maintained and used for more than one application. In the simplest possible version of this you have at least one database server, at least one...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?z10 - Change of Ideology in EnterprisesI think the z10 is going to be the future winner, especially in the virtualization arena. The problem will be getting large corporations to "buy" in to the purchase. In the old days of...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- A thought about Utility Computing
- A thought about Utility ComputingThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Data Center.Nicholas Carr is Earth's answer to Oolon Colluphid. Everywhere he looks, IT is dying. I expect him to release his new book, "Well, That About Wraps It Up For IT" any day now.Of course, centralized processing is not the entire...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Red shift meets event horizon
- Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- PG&E CIO: Pat Lawicki - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Pat thanks for joining me. Pat Lawicki: Thank you, I’m delighted to be here. Dan Farber: Now you’ve been at PG&E in 2005, it’s a company that’s undergoing some transition as you’re putting in new systems. What is the scope of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimization: Enhance IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Performance
- Cisco WAAS is a multilayer application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that improves application performance over the WAN, thus enabling application and server centralization into fewer data centers. Cisco WAAS has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 5X for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. With higher WAN latency, Cisco WAAS shows...
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Level 3 to provide connectivity for Library of Congress' multimedia digital network
- The Library of Congress is the official repository of the knowledge and civic affairs of the United States.When you are dealing with all of this information form LOC out to the rest of the U.S., even non-digitized- there's a true implication that data traffic will be massive, and non-stop. After...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Engineering Firm Gains Business Continuity With WAN Optimization
- ENGlobal Corporation (AMEX: ENG) - an engineering and professional services firm serving all segments of the petroleum, gas, chemical, power, and petrochemical markets - has grown substantially over the last five years through customer success and strategic acquisitions. The company's challenge was to: Improve business continuity through application and data...
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Optimizing Branch-Office Network Infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership With Cisco Integrated Services Routers
- Advances in technology are changing business policy, which is in turn driving changes in branch-office network infrastructure. Business continuity is accelerating resource centralization, with more and more critical assets moving into the enterprise headquarters and data center. This situation is having a ripple effect on branch and remote offices. To...
- White papers 2006-12-01
- The role of IT
- In reviewing some of the comments on my Sun Ray chapter headings series I became even more convinced than before that the single biggest differentiator between the data processing view of computing and the Unix view derives from the difference on role conceptualization for IT. As a Unix guy...
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- sWaPing out the data center
- Regular readers will recall my provisional Sun T2000 pod configuration - basically an APC NetShelter VX 42U Enclosure with an integrated APC Smart-UPS RT 3000VA, dual Linksys 24 port switches, dual T3 routers, one 16GB, 1.2Ghz, T2000 processor with four internal 73GB disks and one 16 disk FC JBOD providing...
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Reduce IT Costs Using Citrix Presentation Server 4
- Nowadays, IT organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and deliver more value to the enterprise. They are turning to data center and server centralization and consolidation to significantly reduce costs, while at the same time, seeking ways to improve IT systems and infrastructure management to deliver even higher...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Firm bets the time's finally right to chuck desktops
- Firm bets the time's finally right to chuck desktopsNot a chance....The SAME issues still exist.Server goes down, thousands of workers offline.One desktop/laptop goes down, and I got one person drinking too much coffee for the day.-LarryIt seems like someone tries this every couple of years.While thin clients may be good...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
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