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  • Enterprise Virtualization In-a-Box

    calendar Nov 14, 2008 · 14 min read  ·
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    In this post I am going to talk about a specific piece of hardware technology that is intercepting a specific virtualization industry trend. This piece of technology is called BladeCenter S. Those of you that have been reading my blog know I don't usually talk about IBM specific stuff (I work for IBM) but this time I …


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  • Will Microsoft sunset VMware? – 18 months later –

    calendar Nov 4, 2008 · 8 min read  ·
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    Early in 2007 I wrote a post whose title was "Will Microsoft Sunset VMware?". You can read it here. The closing of that post was: > This analysis is as of April 2007. I am sure many things can and will change and I might be proven wrong. Let's see what happens. I went through it this morning and I have to …


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  • Distributed IT is (definitely) broken

    calendar Oct 25, 2008 · 5 min read  ·
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    I have been working in IT for about 17 years now, 14 of which at IBM. Since the first day I was immediately exposed to the concept of a centralized IT where everything is fully controlled, fully secured, fully automated and easy to manage within the data center boundaries; on the other hand whatever sits outside of the …


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  • Plagiarism: did Paul Maritz steal my pitch for the VMworld 2008 Keynote?

    calendar Sep 21, 2008 · 4 min read  ·
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    I think he did but, relax Paul, I am not going to sue you... ;-) Joking aside I was sitting at the VMworld 2008 Keynote in Las Vegas back on Monday last week and I was somewhat surprised (perhaps even pleased) to see Paul touching on many innovative concepts I have been talking about last year at VMworld 2007 in my …


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  • ESX 3.5i for free and the impact on Hyper-V and the SMB (my thoughts on Mike’s post)

    calendar Aug 5, 2008 · 10 min read  ·
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    So finally it happened. Hypervisors are (essentially) free. I remember the very first engagement I had with VMware technologies some 8 years ago; that was the 1.1 (beta) time frame: we did a Proof of Concept and closed the deal with a very satisfied customer... While they were very happy about the achievements they …


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  • Storage High Availability and DR for the masses

    calendar May 19, 2008 · 12 min read  ·
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    Virtualization is a disruptive technology and we all know that. With this post I want to share with you some scenarios about how server (and storage) virtualization can drastically change the landscape for "small IT shops" (aka SMB's) in the context of High-Availability and Disaster/Recovery. Up until today …


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  • VMware HA Vs Microsoft Cluster Server: we are at the inflection point

    calendar Mar 26, 2008 · 10 min read  ·
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    Lately, there have been many discussions on the Internet and on various forums regarding the implementation of HA clustering technologies (namely and primarily Microsoft Cluster Server) within virtual machine environments (namely and primarily VMware infrastructures). Many customers are still treating virtual machines …


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  • Why Desktop Virtualization is not as easy as Server Virtualization

    calendar Jan 28, 2008 · 9 min read  ·
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    In the last few months I have been struggling to understand what is so different, in terms of mass adoption, between virtualizing server workloads and virtualizing desktop workloads (also known as "VDI" or "Virtual Desktop Infrastructure"). I have been exposed to this phenomenon of x86 …


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  • Site Recovery Manager: what is it (going to be) good for?

    calendar Dec 29, 2007 · 7 min read  ·
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    VMware, at VMworld 2007, announced that next year they will provide an out-of-the-box solution/product for Disaster/Recovery scenarios. It is called Site Recovery Manager (SRM for short) and it is supposed to orchestrate and facilitate system administrators to create a D/R plan for their organizations. It is important …


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  • Virtualization hardware sizing (quick and dirty approach)

    calendar Nov 26, 2007 · 13 min read  ·
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    Hardware virtualization these days is a hot topic and we all know that. There are many customers looking into it for the first time and one of the problems they are facing right now is how they are going to size their new virtual infrastructure. Lately I have received lots of requests from many people in order to help …


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Massimo Re Ferrè

Always curious to explore what's coming next in IT.
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