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 […]

You might not think these things are related but they are.

I was around, and actually participated in, the bloody revolution that left glass-house mainframe data center operations in virtual flames. I was working on large, and I mean to say scary, scary large, construction projects. These projects had a typical burn rate in the hundreds […]

Constructing content for IT workshops is almost always best done by casting the objectives against two key approaches:

Cast the content and delivery in the context of the classical design, develop, test and implement engineering cycle components. Cast the delivery in the context of classical optimization exercises, or more modern 6 Sigma DMAIC or DMADV elements.

For example, […]

A workshop is a focused set of meetings, designed to speed the advancement of a business or technical initiative. The success of a workshop understandably hinges on the ability to accelerate the process of designing, developing or implementing an initiative, over alternative approaches, such as a number of meetings, con-calls and document exchanges over […]

Following up on the post today regarding anonymity and yesterday’s post regarding integration issues in Web 2.0, I stumbled across an entry titled “Social Networking 3.0” on Henry Story’s Blog, The Sun Bablefish Blog, regarding the silos the various Web 2.0 applications and services are forming. Henry’s area of interest is focused on identity issues, […]

I’ve encountered several items today prompting me to blog on what must be a worn topic.

James Governor’s links today include a reference to Microsoft’s Terms of Use, “Just because a work is easily available on the internet or elsewhere does not mean you may use the work freely. Look for terms of use, such as […]

A discussion I just had with David Levy got me thinking about how various social networking channels are working and not working for me and others. It seems like various social networking channels are finding their place, based on capabilities, usage, integration and push versus pull issues. Twitter is somewhat filling the social void felt by […]