Inchoate Curmudgeon

Consolidation invariably results in running more workloads on fewer machines. For most customers, this implies going from one workload or major application per machine to many workloads or applications per machine. This may imply more than one business unit or portfolio of applications sharing individual machine hardware in order to obtain the desired, cost-effective compression […]

Enterprise IT environments have been slow to adopt or adapt to standards-based approaches to IT architecture that would support lowering the number operating system images, database servers, application servers and non-value added diversity in IT. However, higher orders of standardization are inevitable as infrastructure technologies mature and IT budgets are unable to sustain or scale […]

I was able to attend Sun’s Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) in Las Vegas last week. These are the sessions I attended:

“Turning ‘Blue Shift’ Datacenter into ‘Red Shift’ Enabler”, Eric Bezille and Michel Kintz “Project Indiana”, Glynn Foster “Virtualization: Technology, Performance and Benchmarking”, Jim Mauro and Tariq Magdon-Ismail “Intel EMT64 Quad-Core Deepdive”, Eric Markwardt “Demonstrating Ruby and Ruby on Rails […]

The large array of Sun platform choices for modernizing older SPARC implementations has a consequence: discerning the correct path, based on your particular situation. There are pros and cons to every approach. For many operations, the most difficult fork in the decision tree is deciding between Sun CoolThreads (CMT) and SPARC 64 architectures versus […]

Robert Scoble just posted an entry titled “Steve Ballmer Doesn’t Understand Social Networking“. The article provides a reasoned perspective on the inability of some business people, notably Microsoft in this case, to understand the full implications of the social networking evolution.

The larger truth to the story is really about trust and how we converse. We […]