IT Blog Does a grid by any other name smell as sweet? In years of covering grid computing technologies, I've seen the definition of "grid" changed to fit vendors' products or the computing flavor of the month. In general, I see the most basic function of grids is creating virtual communities of servers, ap...
Virtualization, Virtualization strategies IT Blog Virtualization.info, Gridtoday, the eGenera website, and a lot of other sources reported that eGenera has received a patent for an all-in-one N+1 tiered disaster recovery solution that combines grid technology and virtualization to provide a hardware-neutral Disaster Recovery product that takes your...
Virtualization, VMware, Virtualization security IT Blog The following is a guest blog written by Schorschi Decker, an IT professional specializing in virtualization and enterprise-level management with over 25 years of experience in the industry. Operating system isolation or hypervisor-based virtualization remains popular, but are we settling for less ...
Microsoft, Virtualization, Application virtualization IT Blog I didn't know this, but I guess yesterday was "Power IT Down Day." Hewlett-Packard, Citrix and Intel joined forces to propose the idea of asking PC users to install power management software that can decrease the power use of their machines when not in use. I found out about "Power IT Down Day" thi...
DataCenter, Data center power management, Blogroll IT Blog Now that we've gotten the link bait headline out of the way, let me say first that cloud computing is in no way to be considered anywhere near as important to the death of Osama bin Laden as the actual people with guns and helicopters. Credit where credit is due. However, foundational shifts in tec...
IT Blog I just spotted a press release on a series of new analyst reports from Gartner on Green IT. Gartner says users should focus investments on areas that will provide the most bang for the buck. Unfortunately, their recommendations are vague. Gartner suggests pursuing tactics like "Changing people's beh...
IT Blog While we now know that Oracle's planned data center in Utah is not a home for aliens, Oracle never publicly announced why the center was put on hold over a year ago. The software giant has revealed that "Project Sequoia" would focus on the latest advances in virtualization, Linux and grid computing ...
Fusion applications, Oracle applications, SaaS IT Blog Weve touched on the disaster of whats happening in the Gulf of Mexico and with the ongoing tragedy of BPs oil spill. We can understand that technology is enabling: For both good and ill. On a smaller scale, many local organizations have had sad yields of data breach, crashes of systems,...
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