Customers only hear what is useful to them. There, I’ve said it out loud and now I’ll just wait for my lapidation to begin. Or perhaps you will bear with me while I try to explain? As I wrote in previous blog posts we deliver a lot of our systems virtualized. You could call our VM … [Read more...]
Virtualization and the challenge of knowing what your customer understands
100% Virtualised? Let’s try for 99%
A lot of posts and talks from people involved in VMware and especially when we start talking about the Private Cloud talk about 100% virtualised data centres. And there's always the nay-sayers like me who point out that there are niche applications which currently can't be virtualised. These include … [Read more...]
SUN ORACLE Exadata Version 2: Showing the power of ORACLE SUN
The US Regulators gave the ORACLE purchase of SUN a go ahead several weeks ago, but EU Regulators are still actively looking at Antitrust laws with the possible buyout of SUN by ORACLE. ORACLE's (Mr. Larry Ellison's) quest to own an infrastructure company is becoming true with the purchase of … [Read more...]