Stuart Miniman
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Convergence from Interop
Last week I attended Interop in New York City where I had the opportunity to speak to many companies about converged infrastructure and cloud solutions. Every vendor has a different definition of what convergence is (it is not melting your data center into a toxic blob) and how it fits into a cloud story. Back ...
VCE Coalition Delivers Real Data Proof of Concept Capability
IT departments need to balance the requirement of getting a solution into production fast with the risk of making sure that everything works. Server virtualization helped with this challenge by allowing companies to spin up a virtual machine fast where applications and real company data can be tested. For large environments and critical applications, the ...
QLogic Delivers Flexibility with 3rd Generation Converged Networking
Today in NYC, QLogic launched a new product line – a 10Gb Intelligent Ethernet adapter, Converged Network Adapter and Converged LOM – and presented their strategy to financial analysts. While a third generation product family announcement may not sound exciting, QLogic’s announcement of converged networking products is not just another turn of the crank. The ...
Oracle Exalogic: Optimization instead of Virtualization
Oracle announced their latest integrated stack, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud at Oracle Open World this week in San Francisco. Exalogic is compute and memory optimized for workloads such as Oracle database. Oracle’s pitch is that Exalogic is “hardware and software engineered to work together.” When you deconstruct the solution, it is Sun servers and Sun ...
Could Mobile Computing Lead to Massive VDI Adoption? [iPad and Windows 7]
Going into VMworld this year, I wanted to hear from customers and vendors the real state of desktop virtualization (also called virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI). Server virtualization may have hit a tipping point in 2009 (with more virtual applications deployed than physical applications), but while VDI has been talked about a lot, actual customer ...
VMWare and the Future of Networking
Howie Xu, R&D Director from VMware, put forth a vision of VMware’s direction for the future of networking, the challenges faced and VMware’s current thinking on how these issues should be solved. As part of the transformation of IT to create more scalable and flexible environments (what VMware and others would call the journey to ...
Is Brocade Destined for Acquisition?
I’ve been discussing the changing IT infrastructure with a number of vendors. Getting schedules to line up, especially in the summer can be difficult, and after a last-minute cancellation of a meeting with Brocade, I sent a note on Twitter (above). It got a lot of responses, so I thought I would give my thoughts ...
Your Brain On the Internet: Why You Can’t Read Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows
If Nicholas Carr is correct in his recent book, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” you will not read this entire blog post. The main idea of the book is that the internet causes our brains to be easily distracted and also makes us less able to learn deep ideas as ...
Wire Once While Staying Flexible with 10GbE and Virtualization
When companies plan their data center infrastructure, there is always uncertainty. When servers, storage and networks are deployed, there is usually a lot of guessing around the memory, bandwidth and storage required. The growth and changes in an environment are also very difficult to predict and manage. Host adapters – including NICs (Ethernet), HBAs (FC), ...
Tribes: Adopting Convergence [Godin]
Seth Godin, a prolific marketing blogger and author, spoke to the World Innovation Forum about innovation. Much of his material was from his two most recent books – Tribes and Lynchpin. Innovation is stuff that’s impossible, because otherwise someone else would have done it Tribes is about leading the groups that already exist. Communities in ...