Shining the harsh light on cloudwashing
James Staten has been railing about cloudwashing for ages. Now, an award will recognize the most egregious offenders.
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Another reason not to cloud wash - real cloud services are maturing fast
If you are dismissing true cloud services, it is time to change that attitude, blogs James Staten.
Could cloud computing get any more confusing?
Let's be clear: cloud computing isn't your future -- it's a new part of your overall IT portfolio.
A reason to refresh
Intel did more than just introduce a faster server processor today with the introduction of the Xeon 5500: it enabled a greater level of differentiation to its server and storage vendor partners that ultimately will result in a broader set of choices and better ones for enterprise infrastructure & operations professionals. While the performance improvements of the 5500 in themselves are impressive, there is just as much to like in the new memory and I/O architectures and power efficiency.
Addressing virtualization's achilles heel
The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more applications at a time.