Last Friday I was a guest on the latest Infosmack podcast, with special guest Chad Sakac. One of the topics was Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0 (initially in beta). You can read more details in the press release, however in a nutshell, UIM is all about [...]
The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]
Here I am again on the start of another vendor blogging day. As the title of this post suggests, this will be a trip to see Hitachi, or HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) if you prefer. The Bloggers Day is taking place over two days and is located in San Jose, just south of San Francisco [...]
Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia. The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware. All of this [...]
It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing.
First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric. What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets pushed out at this point [...]
I’m currently working on a project which is investigating Cisco WAAS deployments and I’m looking to validate successful deployments of the Cisco products in a geographically distributed environment.
Has anyone done this recently? More pertinent, is anyone prepared to share their experiences with me (in confidence if necessary)?
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There’s been a lot of blogosphere talk recently about the Wikibon “Conserve_IT” initiative and how California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company are taking the initiative and offering organisations rebates for demonstrable IT efficiencies. You can find comments here, here and here.
Unfortunately as with [...]
I’m back from my annual summer break (hence the lack of posts for a couple of weeks). I managed to resist the temptation to go online while away (partly because I only had access to the ‘net via a 32K modem and mostly because of the hard stares from my wife every time I went [...]
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front over the last week, mainly because I’ve been away on business and I didn’t take my laptop ( ). I travelled “lite”, which I’m not normally used to doing and that meant taking only the essentials. In fact, as I didn’t have any checked baggage, I [...]
Quite a while back, I posted on the Green Datacentre. Actually, the post was over a year ago and datacentre power and cooling issues have become a really hot (sic) issue.
However, I have to castigate myself severely for not Reading the Flaming Manual. In particular the power demands of the Cisco [...]
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