Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Postcards from IDC’s Virtualization Forum 2.0

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I just attended the IDC analyst conference yesterday in New York . In some sense, the big news was simply how pervasive virtualization is ...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Clothes Dryers, Data Centers, and Power Management

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Just saw this article on an intelligent appliances communicating with the local power grid. Basically, there's now a clothes dryer that ...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Why Don't Servers Self-Consolidate?

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With the mad rush to virtualize and consolidate servers, there's quite a market for "Consolidation planning" tools. (i.e. Plat...
Friday, January 12, 2007

The world only needs 5 computers

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Back in November 2006, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's CTO, offered up a Blog positing that the compute world will consolidate down to 5 big ...
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Virtualization is dead: Long-live virtualization!

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Although it's a red-hot topic now, I believe virtualization is just a stepping-stone to bigger disruptions and changes in how IT infrast...
Friday, December 22, 2006

An O/S for the data center?

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I can’t take credit for this idea – it goes to Rob Gingell , Cassatt’s CTO, previously a VP and Sun Fellow. ( Rob's blog ) But think...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Introduction to (my version of) The Fountainhead

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I've finally initiated a blog-of-my-own... after having thought it ever since I was with Sun Microsystems, where all employees were enco...