Ok, back to talking about the "-ilities" this week and how cloud computing can help you address one of the key issues you are concerned with in your data center. On deck is the recoverability of your IT environment when run on an internal cloud infrastructure (like Cassatt Active Response). As discussed in my last post, there can be a fair amount of organizational and operational change required
Friday, 27 February 2009
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Sorry, VMware: you don't need virtualization for cloud computing
Posted on 11:20 by Unknown
The VMworld Europe PR blitz is in full swing (hats off to many of my old BEA marketing compatriots!). And as it was at VMworld in Vegas back in September, VMworld Europe is all about the cloud. The only problem (if you're VMware) is that the cloud isn't all about virtualization.In fact, you don't need virtualization for cloud computing. Despite what they'd like you to think. Blasphemy? Maybe
Monday, 23 February 2009
When an elephant sits on your blade center
Posted on 11:29 by Unknown
Trade shows should be considered a full-contact sport. Especially if you are a blade center heading to a Cassatt booth.To show off our software at the Gartner Data Center Conference or other industry data center gatherings, we not only ship a couple of smiling, knowledgeable employees, but we also send a mobile computing cluster. Thing is, we've had a few problems with it arriving in one
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Who will save us now? Not Silicon Valley, apparently, but optimism lingers
Posted on 08:31 by Unknown
So apparently new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is not the superhero the stock market was expecting to rescue us all, banks included, from an economy in a downward spiral. At least, that's the message that the markets telegraphed (broadcast? texted?) following the introduction of the Obama administration's government bank bailout plan, part deux, earlier this week.Uh oh. Now what? We'll
Posted in cloud computing, Gartner, industry analysts, innovation, Silicon Valley, the economy
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009
VMware's Thiele: Never more data center change than right now
Posted on 21:48 by Unknown
Making headway in running a data center is hard. Even if you've worked on it a lot. The guy I'm talking to in today's Cassatt Data Center Dialog interview is someone who -- despite the curveballs that IT and the business it supports can throw at you -- has been consistently making big strides in how data centers are run: Mark Thiele.Mark is director of R&D business operations for virtualization
Posted in energy efficiency/green IT, facilities, interview, IT operations, virtualization
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Is your organization ready for an internal cloud?
Posted on 11:17 by Unknown
I'm going to take a post off from the "-ilities" discussion (Disaster Recoverability will be up next) and spend a little time talking about the technical and organizational challenges that many Fortune 1000 companies will face in their move to an internal cloud computing infrastructure. Since I've lived through a number of these customer engagements over the past few years I thought I'd write up
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Is it safe to discuss automating your data center yet?
Posted on 13:30 by Unknown
I've been at Cassatt for over 3 years now and during that time one of words that I've wanted to use the most in describing what our software does is "automation." The only problem: it's a four letter word for IT. Until now. Maybe.In the strictest sense of the word, Cassatt's software is all about automation. The goal of the software is to run your data center more efficiently by doing most of the
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