All Posts Tagged With: "Linux"
Today Microsoft and HP announced an expanded partnership in order to deliver fully integrated application to hardware stacks. It’s a brilliant move, absolutely stunningly smart and spot on for HP.
I wrote about Oracle VM and the fully integrated stack that Larry Ellison has been promoting to his customers. Superficially it might seem like a piece [...]
I recently had a conversation with Mark Anzani, IBM’s CTO for System z, the mainframe platform. Regular readers will know that cooling technology is a favourite subject here on the hot aisle and I was keen to get an answer to how IBM plan to cool their next range of machines, the z11 series.
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I have just finished a call with Adam Hawley, Oracle’s Director of VM Product Management, the guy who owns the whole Oracle Virtualization story and technology. It got me thinking about the Hypervisor marketplace, the players, product strengths and weaknesses as well as ability to execute. My colleage and friend, Mark Bowker (the Virtualization Guru) [...]
Continue ReadingJust had a very nice lunch at Boisdales in London’s finance district, with my old friend and ex BT colleague Chris Brandon now Technical Director at Xsigo. Chris took me through what Xsigo do and why they think they have something to say.
You will remember a few weeks back the Cisco California announcements and the [...]
I admit to being really torn on this issue. I despise theft and copyright infringement but I also hate big brother, strong arm tactics that restrict me from doing stuff that is useful and legal. I use VMWare on my Mac to run other operating systems apart from the native OS X. I run a licensed copy [...]
Continue ReadingYesterday, Oracle announced its intent to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B. While it is very clear Oracle wants to roll up and control the database software market, Oracle executives also stated their intent to invest in the server (Solaris) and storage businesses with the latter be an “expanding market for us over the years to [...]
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I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM’s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted to share with [...]
Google are about to launch Chrome, a new browser that they claim is designed to address the new Internet. An Internet used to run applications rather than display smart HTML.
Is this Googles response to the new Apple Webkit that run’s smart Internet applications and the beginning of he end for Windows? Here’s what is being said on the Google [...]
Fellow blogger Steve Duplessie at Steve’s IT Rants has picked up on the fact that Diane Green has left VMWare after a bad set of financial results. Steve writes a good article and it’s worth a read.
Diane is a victim of heroism via unexpected consequences. Pretty much single handed VMWare has raised the CPE – Compute Power [...]
Jon Pyke of Cordys has the boundless enthusiasm of a man in his twenties combined with over 30 years of experience at the sharp end of Business Process Management and software development. A rare blend and one I am sure is fueled by his appetite for double expresso, “extra strong please, don’t tell the wife, I am [...]
Continue ReadingI just moved The Hot Aisle onto the Mosso Hosting Cloud and away from the Virtualized, Red Hat Linux and MySQL environment it was born on. The Hot Aisle was getting a bit too big to be crowded into the corner of the single server we borrowed from Ewan MacLeod’s SMSTextNews blog (thanks Ewan) and so we [...]
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