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Thursday, 13 September 2007 00:00 |
I used to find it irritating, back in the day, to watch a genuinely amusing TV comedy and become distracted from the jokes by the unnecessary laugh track.
One session I attended at last week's VMworld evoked that same sort of irritation. I appreciated the basic overview provided during
Getting the Green Light for Your Virtual Infrastructure
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 00:00 |
Lucian Lipinsky and Ron Pondiscio of Deloitte Consulting seemed a little out of place here in San Francisco dark suits, East-coast accents, and not drunk on the VMware Kool-Aid. These gentlemen like VMware and presented common-sense rationale for its implementation, but almost alone in a sea (well, in this case, a bay) of virtualization fervor, they sounded a note of reason.
First of all, this isn't new. Anyone heard of mainframes? In the 60s? Or server consolidation on Unix in the 90s and 00s? Get real. |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 00:00 |
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Hewlett-Packard held its 3Q FY2007 Server Quarterly Business Update for IT Analysts on 9/6 to provide the “story behind the numbers” and answer analysts’ irritating questions. We were assured that HP is the most efficient supplier of storage and servers in the industry, and they look forward strong revenue growth, and they are driving industry innovation, and … well, you know… We had indeed noted that HP’s Business Critical Systems revenue was down 3% from 3Q06. Integrity revenue, however, which accounts for 67% of BCS, was up 71% during that period. Another strong showing came from blade revenue – an industry-leading increase of 81% Y/Y and part of the 16% gain notched by HP’s Industry Standard Servers. All in all, not a bad quarter on the hardware side…. |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 00:00 |
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Had a briefing from a company who has an interesting approach to making virtualization more efficient and less resource hungry. FastScale is a new (founded 1/06) Sunnyvale company that has developed a virtualization provisioning package that cuts down the size of virtualized guest operating systems and applications by as much as 99%. In a RHEL4/Apache example, the standard load of application, libraries, drivers, etc., totals 3GB. With FastScale, the same software, with the same functionality only needs to load 30MB of data. Their secret sauce is their software that analyzes the application software from a needs standpoint, and then only loads as much of the operating system (and application) as is absolutely needed for the environment. Unnecessary drivers don't load; libraries that aren't needed don't go on the system, even parts of the application that aren't applicable to the particular installation are jettisoned. |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 00:00 |
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I wish I weren't just coming off a full day of airline hell...then I might have an easier time finding the words to savage the thinking behind Sun Microsystems move from their SUNW ticker to the JAVA symbol. Lots of folks have already weighed in, with reactions ranging from bemusement (most outsiders) to anger (as I've heard from Sun insiders). The justification from Jonathan is that this is all about brand equity and that OpenOffice and Java are two of the best known brands on the internet. He goes on to say... |
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