Archive for July, 2009
Oracle already supports many of the world’s most mission critical systems. Parlaying its enterprise expertise and support into the virtual world with Oracle VM has the potential to help businesses accelerate their virtualization deployments for mission critical applications. With continued focus on supporting Oracle applications as well as other enterprise ...
Next week I am in Marthas Vineyard visiting with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group.
For a few weeks Steve has been telling me about an Enterprise Windows Data Migration tool called AutoMove from AutoVirt. So I have been looking at the details it is ...
I saw this on Twitter, and laughed so hard I had to share. Engadget blog. There are a million funny comments on this blog, but this one is just superb.
If IBM made toasters...
They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to
be submitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim ...
Server virtualization adoption is growing and IT organizations are gaining confidence in running mission-critical applications in virtual machines. Virtual servers introduce complexity to the environment and challenges for data protection—two things CommVault tackles with Simpana 8.
Overview
Server virtualization is being implemented to gain the benefits of server consolidation, including improved ...
Virtualization is at the center of all 21st Century IT systems, yet many CIOs fail to fully understand all of the benefits it can deliver to the data center operation. When we think of virtualization, we think compute, network, and storage—and we mostly think about driving up utilization on each. ...
A growing number of organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to reduce the cost, complexity, and risks associated with PC desktop management. This report documents hands-on testing of an HP LeftHand P4000 SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop environment—paying special attention to ease of management, performance, ...
Time to give credit where credit is due. EMC has learned how to buy companies. I looked at the post "win" integration and saw land mines everywhere - from product rationalization to personality conflicts - that would rear their ugly heads in short order to give the naysayers ammo in ...
After my recent articles on XIV, I got invited out to lunch to meet with some of the UK XIV Sales team this afternoon. Lots of interesting stuff came out but I stumbled into a really strange story. One of my contacts claims that IBM have recruited an extra 400 ...
For the most part, all of the cloud discussion is little more than industry rhetoric. That said, web threat management is a real exception. See my Network World blog for more.
I read an interesting article on Cisco and CEO John Chambers this weekend in the WSJ that reminded me that while prudence is never a bad idea, it's also paramount to "never waste a good crisis" (which Chambers paraphrased from someone else, who I can't remember, and no it wasn't ...
