By now, most of us have seen the move by HP to acquire
EDS for $13.9 Billion. This is good move ??? albeit risky ??? by Mark Hurd and
HP to compete with IBM at an enterprise level. HP understands that enterprise
credibility is built with a comprehensive product and services portfolio that
can address large customer???s IT needs. Dell doesn???t get it, but I suspect they
got a good education today. ...
Today, Dell became the third x86 server vendor to deliver a rack mount servers specifically optimized for server virtualization workloads. To understand the difference between a standard server lets look compare the new PowerEdge 805 with the PowerEdge 2950 III, both support two processors with up to four cores each and occupy the same amount of space in a rack. What separates them is the memory a ...
The big news at today's Microsoft Management Summit was the unveiling of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 beta, which includes the ability to manage VMware Virtual Infrastructure environments. Microsoft can call its VMware management capabilities whatever it wants, but I like to call it Gateway Services for NetWare (GSNW) 2.0. Why?
The talk around thousands of water coolers and coffee machines across the nation rages about a very important topic - the economy. Recently Jack Santos (one of our Executive Strategists) blogged on this subject taking a look at what had happened in the past while overlaying the change in IT's position within businesses.
At Burton Group, we have all been discussing what's h ...
Thin provisioning or to some “just-in-time” or dynamic provisioning of storage volumes – pick your favorite buzz word –is all the rage amongst RAID array vendors. In the good old days - last year in this business – when creating storage volumes for one of their charges, administrators assigned the total requested capacity for the volume up front. While this seemed simple enough, it req ...