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Consolidation and utilisation

It's not unusual to walk into a corporate data center and see rows and rows of rack mounts - all busily churning out heat and cycles -and then hear the local IT management group promise that consolidation will soon reduce the acreage and energy used by the data center.Thus it's...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Operating systems, Paul Murphy, utilisation

Blog posts 2007-08-22

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

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$34m VC round for Spanish SaaS venture

$34m VC round for Spanish SaaS ventureSaaS - not quiteMy feeling is that this company is not SaaS. Specificlly because it is a service company relying on human labour. To double revenues you need to double people utilisation rates assumed constant. Yes there is a web front-end but this alone...

Tags: Spanish SaaS

Discussion threads 2008-07-04

Hyper-V: It's here

Hyper-V: It's hereI Love it ....Quote:"Hyper-V does have one drawback, in that it will only run on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008, because it makes heavy use of Intel VT-X and AMD-V on chip virtualization acceleration features, which are only present in newer 64-bit CPUs."I have deployed 20...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V, 64-bit, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth

Is VMware busting the virtualization tax mythVMware, our savior!In our case we have been using VMware for a while. It is the only alternative when you are stuck with Windows Vista.Vista is our main OS, since we need to assist corporation in screwing up the population we must be...

Tags: Servers, VMware Inc., server, ESX, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY

Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can...

Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2008-05-13

Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation

The rapid spread of software-based server virtualisation on x86 platforms over the past few years is making virtualisation an important solution for hardware resource sharing and server consolidation.As virtualisation is being used more and more to increase utilisation within production workloads, server vendors are responding with platforms, management technologies, and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-05-13

SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology

In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web services have fuelled an escalating demand for mission-critical IT resources, with increasing numbers of collaborative business initiatives focused on information sharing and continuous data availability. As a result, IT data centres experienced rapid growth as the number of applications, the population of...

Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Intel Corp., Real Estate, Strategy, Servers, Business Operations, Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-05-13

Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre

Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy -- and it's a universal problem. Late last year, Quocirca conducted wide-ranging interviews about the issues contributing to the situation. This Quocirca Insight Report, made available by IBM, is based on the results of that research. ...

Tags: Quocirca, Asset, Data, IBM Corp., Asset Management, Real Estate, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2008-03-01

New Solution Helps Deliver Projects on Time and on Budget

A leading energy company with a nationwide presence, Mighty River Power has at least 30 strategic IT projects underway and an additional 100 proposals under consideration at any one time. Staffing and managing these IT projects efficiently is critical to ensuring technology has a strategic impact on the organisation. Using...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management

Case studies 2008-02-26

Virtualisation Key to CHH Server Consolidation Strategy

Carter Holt Harvey is using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to consolidate servers by at least 50 per cent, increase server utilisation by 60 per cent, create a more consistent IT environment and reduce hardware costs. In mid-2005, Carter Holt Harvey underwent a strategic change of ownership, prompting the company to...

Tags: Virtualization, Information Technology, Carter Holt Harvey, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2007-12-01

Lehmann & Voss Deployed a Cisco Storage Area Network to Defend Its Mission-Critical Applications Against Downtime

Lehmann & Voss & Co. KG wanted to permanently safeguard the company's ability to supply its customers. The challenge was to reduce capital and operational costs through more efficient utilisation of resources. A Cisco optical solution connects the company's two computer centres in Hamburg and enables synchronous mirroring of business-critical...

Tags: Network, SAN, Downtime, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

Case studies 2007-09-10

Consolidation and utilisation

Consolidation and utilisationIn other words...."Most importantly, there are better options: just running multiple applications on the same OS instance avoids the overheads associated with switching and OS copies, adopting Lintel reduces overheads and failure risks, switching to Sun’s CMT/SMP technologies under Solaris offers radically better performance for less money."Instead of...

Tags: Strategy, Servers, consolidation, J2EE, information technology, Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Virtualization? uh huh...

Let me see if I've got this right:Systems virtualization as most people practice it consists of booting multiple copies of a guest OS into memory and switching between copies as needed.The boot and switch process itself is handled by a third OS which monitors the guest OSes and input sources...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Paul Murphy, virtualization, Wintel, operating system, Unix

Blog posts 2007-08-21

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nullVirtualization is not a solution. It's a small feature.The problem with salesman is that they act like sound-byte dumb processing machines.If the current trend was (God Forbid! :) :) ) placing Windows Vista on mainframe no matter how dumb, irrational that would be, they would move mountains to make it...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Servers, kettle, TCO, server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Thin clients...Lessons learned

Thin clients...Lessons learnedAre you suicidal?You said:"I wonder if I can convince my wife to forego a vacation this summer and teach her how to use a set of crimpers?" Sounds like someone with a death wish to me.Sounds like a great solution that you have going there. We are looking...

Tags: Thin clients, thin client

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Can software RAID be faster than hardware RAID?

Can software RAID be faster than hardware RAID?depends on the applicationi have several raid setups on my home lan, the latest one being a dedicated win2003 server w/ highpoint 2320 rocketraid card. the card doesn't have a dedicated processor for the raid 5 calculations, BUT storing is the only...

Tags: Storage, software, RAID, hardware, CPU, software RAID

Discussion threads 2007-04-25

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

Migrating Chemical Information to New Architectures

This paper discusses some of the drivers behind the increasing number of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies moving from traditional proprietary chemical information systems into modern alternatives. The paper explores the business drivers for change and discusses some of the issues which must be considered before migrating chemical information, including an...

Tags: Pharmaceutical Company

White papers 2007-01-24