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Like other people, I’ve been wondering how Oracle has integrated many of Sun’s technologies and hardware after buying that company. Oracle has just started a nationwide tour to inform us of just that. The first stop was in their neck of the woods, Palo Alto, California. The free semin...
I have done consulting work for MySQL as it enters the Japanese market for more than three years. I have not seen Marten Mickos for a few years. I wondered what his next move would be after he left MySQL. I heard he became CEO of Eucalyptus, which is gaining visibility in the crowded cloud compu...
We all know how important it is to develop a Disaster Recovery/Business Conntinuity Plan. If you still don’t have one, consider this : relying on backup data that you have never tested and have no idea how long it would take to restore … is not a plan.
In the old days of IT...
I wrote about my first idea for a panel discussion in my previous blog, and here’s my second. When we analyze the power consumption ratio among servers, storage equipment, and networking, we find that servers consume far more power than storage and networking equipment combined. That is why th...
I am always on the watch for interesting stories about green IT, cloud computing, and smart grid. When someone pitched me a story about the container-based data center (CDC), I did not pay much attention because, at the time, CDC was dismissed as only for large companies like Microsoft and Google. B...
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In this white paper, the experts at IDC examine why server-related costs like power, cooling, configuration, and management have grown all out of proportion to the size of the data center—which itself has grown by leaps and bounds! Their suggested solution: blade servers deployed within a virt...
A significant number of the servers shipped this year will replace existing ones, according to this white paper from the experts at IDC. More capable servers can bring down energy and real estate costs, while cutting operating expenses and supporting new server-intensive Web apps. Now learn the most...
This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0’s massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that’s affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives ...
In this free white paper, learn how a lower server count can keep the data center agile enough to cope with today’s dynamically changing priorities and pressures. Discover how consolidation can help deliver services faster while cutting costs, conserving energy, and reacting faster to new dema...
This free e-book—an official release in the renowned "For Dummies" series—explores why virtualization is in such great demand and what it can do for your business. Discover 4 powerful and very different trends driving virtualization adoption; 3 key types of server virtualizatio...
As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later.
Regulatory pressure on data centers
The U.S. House ...






















