the State of Security

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Smoking More, Enjoying It Less, Vol. 5…

by ~Previous Contributers

I’ve heard this twice in the last three weeks! The IT group could return millions of dollars to the bottom line, if only they could win the argument with Finance to buy new servers and allocate the four man-months to complete the infrastructure replacement project. IT guy: “You know that virtualization project? Well, we need [...]

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Smoking More, Enjoying It Less, Vol. 4…

by ~Previous Contributers

In today’s tougher spending climate, I’ve found that virtualization is one of the few IT projects that don’t have to do with compliance that are being funded these days. They often hinge upon reducing operating expenses and increasing computing densities, but I wonder how many of these projects will deliver on the goals of real [...]

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My favorite talk at VMworld was…

by ~Previous Contributers

I guess I really am a blue-collar type of guy… Certainly, there were many interesting technologies previewed at VMworld, including some mind-blowing features and capabilities that allow transparent failover and transactional integrity using pedestrian hardware and software. Pretty astounding stuff! But, to be honest, my favorite talk was given not by the technologists and marketers, [...]

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Smoking More, Enjoying It Less, Vol. 3…

by ~Previous Contributers

Because more virtualization is always better, let’s institute firm policy controls to encourage faster virtualization adoption and quicker attainment of our “100% virtualized computing” goals. Image courtesy: John angry/Oboyah Za3lan

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Smoking More, Enjoying It Less, Vol. 2…

by ~Previous Contributers

Unfortunately, even if we could still virtualize all our computing infrastructure, there will still be piles of blinking servers and networking gear. And even cables. And last I checked, they still haven’t figured out how to build servers that have negative footprints or negative heat generation. Image courtesy: John angry/Oboyah Za3lan

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Smoking More, Enjoying It Less, Vol. 1…

by ~Previous Contributers

Unfortunately, virtualization will not… instantly cool your data center instantly reduce operating expense instantly reduce server counts instantly increase availability The sad reality is, implementing virtualization is a project (and there’s usually already a huge IT project backog), which must drag in resources from almost every functional area (e.g., server administration, DBAs, networking: all of [...]

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