Archive for September, 2010
Does it bother anyone that when we used to draw Visios of the data center, and there was an element that we didn’t know quite how to represent, it was always shown as a picture of a “cloud?”
Let me be clear on my stance. Cloud is hype. Cloud ...
Networking traditionally has been a commodity business at Dell, but virtualization and cloud computing have made the network a critical piece of a converged data center architecture, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Jon Oltsik.
via Dell Names Former Cisco Exec to Lead Networking - PCWorld Business Center.
Welcome to my new blog, “Navigating the BaR Scene”! If you haven’t followed me in the past at my previous job, you’re probably wondering what’s up with the bar reference. BaR is short for Backup and Recovery–it was part of my previous blog at my last employer ...
Virtualization has been in the news for more than 5 years, VMware has become a $35 Billion company, and companies all over the world see the benefits of virtualization: consolidation, flexibility, and high availability, just to name a few.
But virtualization may have an unexpected benefit, just like Big ...
I'm here in San Francisco for Oracle Open World. Just arrived, but I already have some first impressions.
There are signs, billboards, and brochures boasting about Oracle's commitment to integrated hardware and software. This is the ultimate irony to an industry old-timer like me as Oracle led the open systems charge ...
Cloud storage holds tremendous potential as a way to reduce the overall cost of doing business by eliminating upfront and ongoing investments in infrastructure, floor space, power, cooling, and management. Despite the poor economic environment in 2009 and promises of its cost reductions, enterprise users have not yet flocked ...
In the middle of July, I used a Revolutionary War analogy to highlight the fact that “primary data reduction” was coming. Fast forward to the end of September–I am now using a 2010 Gulf War analogy to prove my point. (Please excuse my U.S. military bias here but the entire world was ...
Endpoint devices are becoming more ubiquitous for business purposes. Not only are IT organizations supporting more endpoints (desktops, laptops, handheld devices) than ever, but users are storing more information and files on these devices. Since endpoint backup is an area of ambiguity, many organizations lack a consistent data protection strategy, ...
Oracle OpenWorld 2010‘s opening keynote had no surprises at all: a new Exadata, now called Exalogic, the announcement of Fusion, the integrated ERP environment expected for years, a cloud/SaaS offering and the less expected but less relevant, true fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The most interesting ...
So, it’s the official Day Two of Oracle Open World….apparently the biggest IT event there is, and I’ve seen no reason to doubt that. I haven’t been before so thought I’d share some thoughts about the event - as much about it as a ’happening’ as the content itself.
I ...
