Is capacity planning dead or set for a revival? (3)
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Capacity planning is something I broadly associate with the mainframe market. Its something data centers used to do before the advent of commodity computing - when chips became cheap and storage even cheaper. Web companies are notorious for their “throw servers at the problem, don’t worry its scale out” approaches. But virtualisation, and dare I say it, the Cloud, are bringing issues of strategic infrastructure planning back to the fore. I recently recommitted to blogging, ...
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mndoci said:
Twitter for market research?
HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing (3)
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Matt Asay writes "On October 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard sent a complaint to an open-source competitor, GroundWork, asking GroundWork to stop revealing HP's 'confidential' pricing. CNET has posted the letter, which indicates that HP doesn't want its pricing revealed, but which doesn't question the veracity of the pricing (which, not surprisingly, is 82 percent higher than the open-source vendor's). Does HP think its pricing is really a secret? It's publicly available at GSA Advantage. Guess what? ...
Gartner: Microsoft's Cloud to be more robust and green (1)
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The company is planning to invest heavily in its online infrastructure to meet the expected demand. Providers, including arch-rival Google as well as Adobe and Amazon, are now increasingly able to replace and augment the functionality of local PCs with web-based services running on large distributed server farms. For Microsoft, this capability represents an attack on its traditional PC operating system and office application business. To counter this, it will set up 20 new data ...
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Nick said:
One new data center with capacity for 500,000 servers.
What Sun should do (2)
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…is the title of this post written by Tim Bray a few days ago in which he outlined the directions he would like to see his employer take to improve its fortunes. He also invited others to continue the thought process. Many have already done so (I’ll include the best in tomorrow’s CAOS Links post) and given my recent constructive criticism of Sun’s open source strategy I feel compelled to provide some answers as well ...
Analyst: Red Hat "deeply undervalued," Oracle Linux "has failed" (2)
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Red Hat has been taking a beating in the stock market recently, but in a recent research note leading analyst Mark Murphy of Piper Jaffray thinks this represents an exceptional opportunity to buy into a "deeply undervalued" company. More interestingly, Murphy finds significant cause for Red Hat optimism based on Oracle's failed attempt to undermine Red Hat with its Unbreakable Linux product. If Red Hat's model were fragile, the thinking goes, surely a behemoth like ...
How do you size your virtual test labs? (1)
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In the past I’ve written about and asked the question - “Does your software test lab have a champion?“. Typically, it is your lab champion who takes up (among other things) the case of sizing the lab. How many hosts do you need? The storage capacity required? How many users? etc. Solutions like VMLogix LabManager rely on managing a set of virtual hosts that house your virtual lab environment. VMLogix LabManager provides centralized virtual lab ...
Self-Service BI In The Cloud (1)
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Twenty tears ago, “advanced information retrieval” was a tiny niche activity, carried out by IT experts on behalf of users. Today, Google and other search engines provide self-service advanced information retrieval to billions of users around the world. Advanced business intelligence is similarly about to undergo dramatic change and democratization over the next few years. The new BI will be: Self-service, not controlled by IT departments. Cloud-based. Powered by a new generation of massively parallel ...
The Battle for the future of the Internet (1)
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ElasticVapor - Life in the cloud (0)
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Since Khaz banned me from the Google Cloud Computing group back in September (a group I helped create). I've been a missing a cloud community where I could share my ideas. Recently my cloud computing interoperability group has started to take off and I finally have a community outlet for my ideas on cloud computing, standards and interoperability.In a recent post I asked the question"If not a traditional XML Schema, what other approaches may give ...
James Governor: What Should Sun Do? (2)
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Stephen wrote an awesome long form post on the subject, so I don’t need do. He was responding to Tim. Here is what I would do. At best go private at worst go back to SUNW as a stock ticker. Focus absolutely all of innovation efforts on a new core value proposition - The Storage Is The Computer. The Network used to be the computer, but now its the storage. Everything runs on everything. What ...
The Big Four Cloud Computing Providers: Security Compared (Part I) (4)
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James Urquhart posted a summary a week or so ago of what he described as the "Big 4" players in Cloud Computing. It was a slightly humorous pass at describing their approaches and offerings:Below is a table that lists these key players, and compares their offerings from the perspective of four core defining aspects of clouds. As this is a comparison of apples to oranges to grapefruit to perhaps pastrami, it is not meant to ...
When “communities” pick their friends and enemies (1)
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I recently had a run in with one of the “leaders” of a cluster management system. This person decided I went over the line in reporting on a security issue, our forensics, and how to go about helping prevent it in the future. Previously, I had been warned for daring to point to [...]
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Nick said:
I think this refers to some issues found in ROCKS. 'Interesting' reaction from the community.
Cloudwashing and Sorting Out the Confusion (1)
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Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Frank Gillett discusses the trend toward "cloudwashing" and provides a broader context for understanding the proliferation of cloud-related offerings. Read more at our web site
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Nick said:
Like the term Cloudwashing
Open Source Cloud Tools (1)
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I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud. Here’s the list of features: This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism and, last but not least, a Cloud-plugin. This new Cloud-plugin ...
Cisco’s new datacenter: does more, lower cost (12)
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Let’s say you are a bank, like Washington Mutual, and you’ve been forced to join another bank. What happens to your data center? How do the IT guys left in charge reduce cost? What other things are happening in the data center to squeeze cost out and return investment dollars fast? Well, today I went over to Cisco’s headquarters to see what they are doing in their datacenters. There I met James Urquhart (here is ...
Podcast: cloud models and managing transition risks using service governance (1)
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Understand more about the balance and best practices route to emerging cloud and utility IT values and enterprise cloud adoption. [Read More...]
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Nick said:
Good perspective from HP on cloud
Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds (1)
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A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company’s orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their systems (industry standard systems and [...]
Cloud Computing: Weapons of mass disruption (1)
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I gave my lecture today at the University of Toronto and like most of my events lately I only made it through my first three slides. I seem to have a knack for creating an interactive discussion and today's un-lecture was no different.The group consisted of mostly computer science post grad students. They did ask me some fairly intriguing questions. In one my random off topic rants, I described cloud computing as one of the ...
What Sun Should Do (20)
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Sun is going through a lousy spell right now. Well, so is the world’s economy in general and the IT business in particular, but this is about Sun. This is my opinion about what my employer should do about it. Notices and Disclaimers This is not an official opinion from Sun Microsystems. Nor does it reflect any particular insider knowledge; I am not privy to the executive decision-making process about what the company should look ...
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Michael Pierson said:
Tim's articulate voice on Sun's current situation.
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byte said:
Tim's got some interesting ideas. I don't know what kind of impact this will have, within Sun, but its definitely worth a read. Maybe I need to weigh in on it, too, and write something similar.
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Nick said:
Tim Bray's personal perspective on what SUN should do.
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C.M said:
Just do it
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past said:
Tim Bray as insightful as ever.
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Eric Eisenhart said:
As a sysadmin, I totally have to agree that Sun needs something competitive with APT and that they don't know how to sell to small organizations. Also don't know how to make easy to manage for small organizations.
Cloud as a feature (11)
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog (2)
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Microsoft has been touting its "software plus services" strategy for some time, but if you want see some of the most creative thinking about how to meld cloud services with traditional PC software you'd do well to look not at Microsoft but at Mathematica. Wolfram Research, which makes Mathemetica, a heavy-duty and widely used program for computation and modeling, announced last week that it will build "the cloud" into the latest version of the application, ...
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cesaracardoso said:
E o Mathematica, um programa peso-pesado de cálculo e modelo matemático, adere à "computação nas nuvens" - como parte integrante do programa.
Skytaps 10 reasons for Cloud Adoption madness in 2009 (1)
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Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds (0)
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-- Eliminates infrastructure constraints: cloud-based services allow companies to dynamically scale virtual environments quickly and cost- effectively based on business demand.-- Turns upfront Cap-Ex into Op-Ex: Cloud services provide the same powerful computing resources without the large upfront investment. Additionally, usage is billed hourly, enabling organizations to pay for what they use without investing in unused capacity.-- Brings software to market faster: Development organizations can support critical business initiatives by delivering applications faster using the ...
