server consolidation

How many of your servers have been around for a decade? Not many, it’s safe to assume. (None ideally.) Chances are that the servers you deployed in 2001 were replaced 3-5 years later. And if there are a couple stragglers still around, they’re costing you a bundle in electricity and rack space. Fortunately, longevity is [...]

Read more The 10-year server?

by Pedro Hernandez on January 31, 2011 · 1 comment

How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all [...]

Read more Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play

by Pedro Hernandez on August 23, 2010 · 0 comments

On the surface, it would seem counterintuitive to consider mainframes–the hulking computing flagships of IT–as a green technology. But that’s exactly IBM’s message and it does have its merits. While you may have to make some accommodations in you datacenter…

Read more IBM: Mainframes are Green, Really

by Pedro Hernandez on May 14, 2009 · 0 comments