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- Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"
- With all the recent conjecture about the rumored Apple tablet (nee "iPad") I found this email particularly interesting. Confessions of a teacher, parent and wanna-be tech geek by John H. Julian I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved...
- Tags: Teacher, Computer, Tablet Computer, Personal Information, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere
- While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...
- Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...
- Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing
- Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Pivot3, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- HP Insight Orchestration Template for HP BladeSystem Matrix - SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Enterprise Configuration
- HP BladeSystem Matrix is a fully integrated cloud infrastructure in a box that helps one accelerate business service delivery without chaos, and take costs out today and keep them out in the future. The HP BladeSystem Matrix is the world's first adaptive infrastructure that is simple to buy. It unites...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, HP BladeSystem Matrix, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Deduplication will exist everywhere
- Most customers were just starting to get their arms around all the different deduplication approaches available in disk appliances and VTLs from vendors when backup software vendors and even non-storage related vendors began announcing deduplication capabilities. We all know the appliance and VTL vendors offering dedupe, including...
- Tags: De-duplication, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- HP answers Cisco with Matrix; Data center visions galore
- Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Vision, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., BladeSystem Matrix, Storage Lineup, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor
- Symantec, a long time player in the virtualiation technology market, has just launched the Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor. It is designed to help organizations evaluate their disaster recovery plans by scanning the organization's IT infrastructure and comparing what it sees to a very large knowledgebase of potential problems. ...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Center, Knowledgebase, VERITAS Software Corp., Advisor, Tool, Disaster Recovery Advisor, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Cisco vs the world and unasked for advice to Dell
- The rumors about Cisco offering a blade server abound now. If true, it would seem that Cisco wants to move up the stack from providing networking and network virtualization technology to providing a more complete computing environment. This would place them in direct competition with Dell, HP and IBM. The...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Utility Computing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- At the SHARE conference in Austin, Texas, the Birmingham, Alabama-based Mantissa Corporation unveiled z/VOS, a hypervisor that enables Windows desktops and servers to be virtualized on IBM mainframes. I don't generally like to blog about IBM technology on Tech Broiler because as an...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Mouse, Performance, Intel X86, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture for Oracle Database Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- The HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture described in this white paper demonstrates the powerful integration of Oracle 10g Real-Application Clusters RAC with HP VSE technologies such as HP Global Workload Manager gWLM and HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC. The architecture takes advantage of the Virtual Server Environment...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Environment, Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-03-01
- HP Virtual Server Environment Reference Architecture: Shared Infrastructure for Databases
- The increasingly vital role of IT within a business motivates sharing of IT functions across the enterprise. In the shared IT model, IT acts as a service provider, hosting applications and managing servers, on behalf of different lines of business within the enterprise. The shared IT model helps organizations achieve...
- Tags: Database, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Environment, Infrastructure Inc., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Parallels' Serguei Beloussov speaks out on free XenServer
- Parallels' CEO, Serguei Beloussov, has published his opinion regarding Citrix's recent announcement that they were making a free edition of XenServer available see Citrix launches a free version of XenServer and Citrix Essentials for more information. Let's hear what he has to say and review his comments. Here's what...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenServer, Parallels, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- HP Technologies Enhance SAP ERP System for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.
- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Company Limited DSME successfully realized a more transparent management system by introducing SAP Enterprise Resource Planning ERP into its operations. With this introduction, the global shipbuilding company strengthens competitiveness through continuous Process Innovation PI activities. Recently, it upgraded the existing SAP ERP system, establishing an...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., ERP System, SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), EAI, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Hardware Upgrade, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Software, Middleware, Hardware, Storage
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- HP Logical Server Management: Best Practices
- The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE solution introduced support for logical servers, and the 4.1 release further enhanced their capabilities. HP logical server technology further enables system administrators to create an Adaptive Infrastructure, allowing their IT environment to respond quickly to changing business needs. Logical servers are a new class...
- Tags: Server Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
- DynamicOps self service management for virtual environments
- A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps' VP Marketing, and learn about Virtual Resource Manager VRM and this spin-off from Credit Suisse. DynamicOps is the result of project to allow virtual resources to be easily configured and provisioned based upon the organization's policies...
- Tags: Credit Suisse Group AG, Dan Kusnetzky, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Environment, Hardware, Information Technology, Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps, Service Management, Software, Storage, Virtual Environment
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Transitive's magic - Solaris/SPARC Apps and Hyper-V
- In the past, I posted about one of the important requirements of the next generation datacenter NGDC, the ability to consolidate diverse applications on a unified hardware platform. Both IBM (see What would a next generation datacenter look like?) and HP see HP and the next generation data center and...
- Tags: Application, Sun Sparc, Transitive QuickTransit, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Apani and Cross-Platform Server Isolation
- A while ago, I spoke with the folks of Apani about security in virtualized environments. Although this isn't a topic that is getting as much media attention as virtual machine software, virtual access software or virtual application environment software, it is a very important topic. Security risks still exist even...
- Tags: Software, Environment, Apani, EpiForce, Server Virtualization, Servers, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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