links for 2008-05-23

• Virtualization savings often spent on hardware upgrades, users say
  While it’s easy to share CPU time and even disk space, each server basically needs its own amount of physical RAM,” he said. “If each server needs 512 MB of RAM, that’s 2 servers per GB of RAM on the host.
  (tags: virtualization)
• IBM Pulse 2008 - Review
  observations….things that are bad/make no sense…pushing TPM (Tivoli Provisioning Manager) as datacenter automation. TPM is a worst of breed product in every way, and is years behind HP SAS and Bladelogic. The product will never catch up.
  (tags: configuration change dca datacenter)