CiRBA's Hillier believes that datacenters supporting virtual workloads function more like hotels than apartments. Workloads come in, stay a while, and then others take their place. Why do performance and configuration management tools assume they're like apartments?
What's the real business impact of information technology? What is the real cost when a workload slows down or fails?
IBM is showcasing its system Z and Power Systems offerings at an "enterprise summit" this week. Comments, quotes and observations from the event will be posted here.
Commentary released prematurely.
IT administrators have many challenges simply monitoring and managing today's complex web of workloads, servers and clients. What happens when vehicles, copiers, security devices, smartphones, tablets and who knows what else appear on the network?
Rebuilding the mainframe using industry standard components is the name of the game with converged infrastructure systems. NetApp offered some insight into the history of trend and an update on FlexPod.
IT industry futurists who proclaim the end of data centers as we know them forget perhaps that some enterprises are not likely to give proprietary solutions away to others -- and that even cloud service providers need the economics of scale to succeed.
Secondary approval is a standard policy in data centers for physical processes to prevent unauthorized or accidental actions that can be damaging. HyTrust asks why isn't this the case in the virtual data center.
Should your enterprise own its data center? Would it be better to use the services of a hosting or collocation company? Does the emergence of cloud computing make this decision easier?
The key question is whether customers will stay with System x systems or make future purchases from others.