Data Center Innovation: Is Virtualization the latest hype or a key step...
Data Center Innovation: Is Virtualization the latest hype or a key step forward in Data Center transformation? Members of the technology development community, sometimes take the press at face value....
View Article2 Guys (or Gals) and a Dog
I was recently attending a holiday dinner party when someone asked what I did for a living......after about 30 seconds of explaining that I worked for Intel on virtualization technologies and...
View ArticleThe day our server died……or at least retired.
This week at Intel, we will host several thousand of the world's foremost software and hardware developers in San Francisco at our triannual Intel Developers Forum. It is an event that requires months...
View ArticleVMWorld Forecast: Partly “Cloudy” with a chance for change
Each year for the last 10 years, the innovators of VMWare, have hosted a users and partner conference to discuss virtualization technologies, ideas and services for the IT industry. This years event,...
View ArticleVirtually Cloudy Days forecasted….rain imminent.
For those of us who have lived through the cyclical nature of Enterprise technology innovation, the last month has seen the public and private backlash of an "emerging" compute models, known as Cloud...
View ArticlevSphere 4 and Intel Xeon 5500: Where ROI meets innovation…
In 1934, the legendary investment educators of Ben Graham and David Dodd, published the seminal stock investment book of the 20th century. "Security Analysis" provides a clear framework for value...
View ArticleThe Future of Autonomic Computing Innovation
The computer industry is filled with pundits, speculators, visionaries, salesman, brilliant architects and professors. Each provides invaluable insight into their experience, their intelligence, their...
View ArticleVirtualization: A hot topic that stays cool……
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Intel's Chief Virtualization Architect Rich Uhlig to discuss the new usage models and virtualization technologies in Intel new Xeon 5500 series platform....
View ArticleIt takes a village…or at least a community.
"Part 4 of 6 "Virtualization Technology and Ecosystem Support" Earlier this summer we announced Intel's soon to be released Intel Xeon server product code named "Nehalem-EX" to the world. This is a...
View ArticleVMWorld and IDF – Virtualization’s September Spotlight
Each of the last 3 years, Rich Uhlig, myself and the rest of our colleagues at Intel focused on virtualization technologies, have had the enviable task of participating in two of the...
View Article2010-2019: The Decade of Available Computing
Every year industry pundits predict the future of computing technologies, investment decisions and resource requirements to move the industry in a direction that meets their investment criteria,...
View ArticleFive Bulletproof Arguments for Unified Networking
In today’s data centers, unified networking based on 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) is the right thing to do for many reasons. But let’s simplify things and focus on five bulletproof arguments for converging...
View ArticleFibre Channel is dead. And that’s a good thing.
It’s time to start writing the obit for Fibre Channel networking. The pace of innovation in FC is slowing, while other technologies are rushing forward. And it no longer makes sense to use a dedicated...
View ArticleIs Virtualization the “Foundation” to Cloud Computing?
Over the past decade I have worked with many of the great technologists and companies of the x86 Virtualization era on developing new innovations in Virtualization technology. This work has been very...
View ArticleThe data explosion is here. Is your storage architecture ready to scale?
Skyrocketing data growth shows no signs of letting up. An IDC study published in May predicted the amount of digital information created annually will grow by a factor of 44 through 2020.[1] The study...
View ArticleThe business case for scale-out storage
In last week's post, we looked at a few of the key architectural requirements for a scale-out storage infrastructure, including a unified 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) network that supports diverse protocols....
View ArticleData Center Technology Advances, Costs Decrease: Welcome to the Age of...
Quantitative easing, stimulus packages, rising oil prices, government spending and commodities costs rising globally have led many economists to predict wild swings in inflation on a global basis....
View ArticleVMWorld 2011: Is Cloud Computing Socially Reliable? Technology Rock Stars...
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly...
View ArticleThe growth of Non-Volatile Memory Architectures: Is it really a revolution?
Last week at Intel’s Developer Forum 2012 we hosted solutions from over a dozen companies and collaborators interested in showcasing their solutions for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) in a community forum....
View ArticleWorkstation Performance Collaboration with Dell and Intel Cache Acceleration...
The more innovation that is built into Intel® architecture, the more opportunities our ecosystem, collaborators, and customers find to create new usage models with Intel® technology. Over the last nine...
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