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The Great Benchmark Debate
There is less stock being put into how a hardware or software product performs in a lab, and more emphasis on total cost of ownership and how they perform in real-life scenarios. Continue reading
Unleashing high performance applications with AMD and VMware
We all count on Moore’s Law to make our lives easier every time we upgrade to the next generation of computing systems, but we sometimes forget that there’s a lot of hard work that goes into improving the performance of our hardware and software. Continue reading
The Dawning of the Age of "Coopetition" for Virtualization
Earlier this week, many were probably asking themselves, “Is the Moon now in its 7th house? Did Jupiter just align with Mars?” when they learned of the most recent Microsoft and Red Hat announcement. Two fierce global competitors agreeing to … Continue reading
The Holy Grail of Virtualization
There are plenty of reasons that companies can give for keeping virtualization at an arm’s length instead of embracing it. In my conversations with customers, it’s difficult to find somebody that is not working with virtualization at some level. … Continue reading
Sacrifice Nothing
With today’s focus on "green IT" and energy efficiency, it’s no wonder that the interest in low power processors continues to grow. Even when AMD (and a handful of very insightful customers) could see that low power computing was the … Continue reading
Conspicuous Consumption is Out of Style
Even before the black clouds of recession began hanging over all our heads, cost effective IT productivity has been in vogue. Doing more with less is the name of the game in the data center. Dell’s Energy Smart platforms aim … Continue reading
From Virtualization to Clouds – What Buzz will 2009 Bring?
The Global Language Monitor posted an interesting article the other day that listed the 10 most confusing yet frequently cited high tech buzzwords of 2008. Not surprising “Cloud Computing” is number one – while “Virtualization” is number six. So, what … Continue reading
The Importance of Consistency
I was reading today about the Oakland Raiders’ latest fired coach filing a grievance for the salary he still believes he is owed. That got me thinking that just five years ago the Oakland Raiders were in a Super Bowl. … Continue reading
Virtualization: Something Old, Someone New and Some Really Big Cost Savings
I always find it interesting to hear people singing the praises of x86 virtualization and talking about how this recently introduced technology is already revolutionizing the industry. Fact of the matter is that virtualization technology was originally introduced for the … Continue reading
You Can’t Make a Cake with Just Flour… Why Performance Benchmarks Alone Don’t Work
Seems like everywhere I turn people are talking about IT best practices. But what about worst practices? After all, most of us were taught that you need to learn from your mistakes. So let me take a second to share … Continue reading
