Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A real-world cloud user shares his findings

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I subscribe to a number of mailing lists from my alma mater . A few weeks ago, an alum "John" posted a request for recommendatio...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service Productivity"

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Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egenera's latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. More than one person took note of how I co...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Today's announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egenera's relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT . ...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

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I've been doing an analysis regarding how "complexity" has evolved in the datacenter. Fundamentally, just why is it so hard to...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Products for Cloud Ops vs. Traditional Ops

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Most in IT agree that cloud computing - while not a technology - does impact how technology is used within IT, and also implies a change in ...
Monday, August 17, 2009

What's your "data center complexity factor"?

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After speaking with IT users, analysts and vendors, I've tried to draw-up a "map" of some of the most common data center manag...