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Thursday, 13 September 2007 00:00 |
Lucian Lipinsky and Ron Pondiscio of Deloitte Consulting seemed a little out of place here in San Francisco dark suits, East-coast accents, and not drunk on the VMware Kool-Aid. These gentlemen like VMware and presented common-sense rationale for its implementation, but almost alone in a sea (well, in this case, a bay) of virtualization fervor, they sounded a note of reason.
First of all, this isn't new. Anyone heard of mainframes? In the 60s? Or server consolidation on Unix in the 90s and 00s? Get real. |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 00:00 |
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Hewlett-Packard held its 3Q FY2007 Server Quarterly Business Update for IT Analysts on 9/6 to provide the “story behind the numbers” and answer analysts’ irritating questions. We were assured that HP is the most efficient supplier of storage and servers in the industry, and they look forward strong revenue growth, and they are driving industry innovation, and … well, you know… We had indeed noted that HP’s Business Critical Systems revenue was down 3% from 3Q06. Integrity revenue, however, which accounts for 67% of BCS, was up 71% during that period. Another strong showing came from blade revenue – an industry-leading increase of 81% Y/Y and part of the 16% gain notched by HP’s Industry Standard Servers. All in all, not a bad quarter on the hardware side…. |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 00:00 |
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Had a briefing from a company who has an interesting approach to making virtualization more efficient and less resource hungry. FastScale is a new (founded 1/06) Sunnyvale company that has developed a virtualization provisioning package that cuts down the size of virtualized guest operating systems and applications by as much as 99%. In a RHEL4/Apache example, the standard load of application, libraries, drivers, etc., totals 3GB. With FastScale, the same software, with the same functionality only needs to load 30MB of data. Their secret sauce is their software that analyzes the application software from a needs standpoint, and then only loads as much of the operating system (and application) as is absolutely needed for the environment. Unnecessary drivers don't load; libraries that aren't needed don't go on the system, even parts of the application that aren't applicable to the particular installation are jettisoned. |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 00:00 |
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I wish I weren't just coming off a full day of airline hell...then I might have an easier time finding the words to savage the thinking behind Sun Microsystems move from their SUNW ticker to the JAVA symbol. Lots of folks have already weighed in, with reactions ranging from bemusement (most outsiders) to anger (as I've heard from Sun insiders). The justification from Jonathan is that this is all about brand equity and that OpenOffice and Java are two of the best known brands on the internet. He goes on to say... |
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Monday, 03 September 2007 00:00 |
Some of you visitors may have made your way here through a link on The Register. I was a recent guest on an Ashlee Vance Semi-Coherent Computing Meatcast where we discussed the x86 server market, x86 virtualization, and a few other topics. It was a lot of fun, even though I had a severe cold, and many thanks to Ashlee for having me on his show. And BTW, I was trying to sound like a stuttering, mumbling, idiot....
If you are interested in the data I was discussing on the call, it was gathered through our 2Q x86 Server Vendor Preference survey, and we should be releasing more public data in the next week or so. You will be able to find the press release and associated information here on the site. Speaking of the GCG site, this version of it is fairly new. The blog section (what you're reading now) is where we can quickly respond to industry news, but is also used to air grievances, vent rage, and settle scores. For more serious content, you can find free GCG research reports in our Recent Research section, and a selection of our not-so-free reports in our Research Warehouse. If you have any comments, concerns, complaints, issues, or need to serve us papers for your lawsuit, feel free to use the "Contact Us" link to let us know. Thanks for stopping by... |
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