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- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...
- Tags: IBM iSeries, Data Center, Contact Management, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- When you look at staffing for the typical iSeries based data center the one thing that's most striking is that relative to the mainframe data center positions are broader, people less constrained, and whole customer facing versus internal distinction is completely missing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Data Center, IBM AS/400, IBM OS/400, Programmer, Data Centers, Servers, Development Tools, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Google talks efficient data centers
- Google talks efficient data centersSounds like the same basic setup in useat nuclear reactors for years,
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Google talks efficient data centers
- Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Verari: A system builder that claims to be green tech to the core
- It seems to have become sort of de rigueur for the server vendors to introduce blades optimized for virtualization and, of course, the last VMware software technology. I wanted to make note this week of one such offering from Verari Systems, not necessarily because it's the only game in town...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-21
- Intel's secret weapon: Fresh air
- Outside air blows hot, cold and dusty, but it cools just as well in datacenters as expensive air conditioning, according to Intel. Fresh air could save millions in datacenter cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, datacenter, cooling, energy
- News items 2008-09-19
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- Just recently Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogged about his company's new xVM product and its relationship to what some big system operators want. Great, but to put my response to xVM in terms that don't refer to places where the sun don't shine, he's been hanging out with...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Blog, Jonathan Schwartz, Customer, Wine, xVM OpsCenter, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization
- Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competitionQuite right...Windows isn't the competitionXen is! :DRE: VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competitionMicrosoft is a nobody in the VM space and a nobody in Cloud computing. The only thing cool from MS the past couple of years was Xbox360. Nothing since then.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Datacenter OS, VMware Inc., data center, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Another review of Paul Maritz's vision of a datacenter OS
- Ken Oestreich, of Cassatt, posted his own review of Paul Maritz's vision of a virtual datacenter operating system. It can be found here. As one might expect, it points out that others, including Cassatt, Virtual Iron and others have been implementing versions of this concept for quite a while. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Industry Standard, Vision, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- VMware's Datacenter OS: Windows isn't the competition
- Microsoft archrival VMWare announced this week a set of future technologies called the "Virtual Datacenter OS" that some are comparing with Windows Server 2008. But Windows Server 2008 and its integrated Hyper-V hypervisor aren't what Microsoft is going to be pitting against VMware, Google and Amazon in the brave, new...
- Tags: Data Center, Zurich, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- VMware wants to trump Windows and Linux servers with its Virtual Datacenter OS
- VMware's new CEO Paul Maritz right used his first VMworld keynote on Tuesday to introduce the company's Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) to an audience of IT professionals and technology industry insiders at the VMworld 2008 conference at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. With the Virtual...
- Tags: Linux, Data Center, Linux Server, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VDC-OS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Software, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Maritz: VMware's Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V
- In a direct stab at his old employer, VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched today the next generation OS: the virtual datacenter operating system from VMware. Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. VMware's future 'Virtual Datacenter OS' is a set of services that will allow customers to "pool...
- Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Data Centers, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- SIMtone races to provide cloud-deployed offerings, including wireless device support
- The winner of the "picks and shovels" for cloud infrastructure may well end up the next billion-dollar company in the software space. It should be an intense next few years for these players, especially as other larger software vendors like Microsoft also build, buy or partner their way in. by...
- Tags: Data Center, Wireless Device, Wireless, SIMtone, SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing Platform, SIMtone Virtual Service Platform, Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes. While the technology industry is removed from this carnage it will still feel considerable ripples--some tech...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Data Center, Financial, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Financial Service, Goldman Sachs & Co., Wall Street, Morgan Stanley, IPO, Data Centers, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Wanna get green? Compress your email; Couple IT, facilities; Power down
- Chris O'Connor, vice president of IBM's software group, is one of three executives in charge of making Big Blue as green as possible. IBM has a project called Big Green that's about 16 months old. Like many technology vendors, IBM set a big commitment to reduce carbon...
- Tags: Facility, Power Management, Data Center, Information Technology, Dashboard, E-mail, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Effective File Management: Enabling Business Continuity for Business-Critical Files
- The continued expansion of file-based, business-critical information within extended enterprises will have a dramatic impact on a wide range of industries and geographies in the next five years. Effective file management in the datacenter and across geographically dispersed locations will become the primary challenge for many IT administrators in corporate...
- Tags: Data Center, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Business Continuity, Data Centers, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-09-10
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
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