Mar 4 2008 3:51PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Virtualization,
Video
Ever wonder what Mr. T is up to? He's doing video spots for Hitachi Data System Virtualization.
Dec 13 2007 1:36PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
VMware,
Virtualization
A couple of years ago, the message was “Why buy fourteen servers when you can use virtualization software and run everything on just one server?”
America listened. They bought just one server. And VMware became the hot stock to watch.
Now hardware vendors like Hitachi are hopping on the virtualization bandwagon — “WE can give you virtualization too,” they say. “We’ll embed hypervisors in our shiny new blade servers and let you get rid of that extra layer of software.” (Actually, that was me speaking, not Hitachi.)
So now the software and hardware vendors are fighting over which way offers the best performance. Hypervisor in the software or hypervisor in the firmware? Duke ‘em out boys. We’ll be the winners no matter which way it goes.
Oct 13 2007 1:19PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology,
Utility computing,
CIO
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“We’ve entered the long twilight of the CIO position, a sign that information technology is finally maturing.”
Nicholas Carr, Twilight of the CIO |
Nicholas writes: It will be a slow transition - CIOs will continue to play critical roles in many firms for many years - but we’re at last catching up with the vision expressed back in 1990 by the legendary CIO Max Hopper, who predicted that IT would come to “be thought of more like electricity or the telephone network than as a decisive source of organizational advantage.

Agree or disagree? IT should be thought of more like electricity or the telephone network than as a decisive source of organizational advantage.