Cameron Haight

Yes – Aperations, not apparitions as Google tried to correct me when I checked to see if the term had been used previously although this blog post may be a bit spooky to some (had to thrown in the seasonal tie – sorry).  I’ve been mulling this concept for awhile and the thinking begins along [...]

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…. as I was saying (back in March) … okay, sorry, I’ve been less than a bit regular on posting, but once more I go into the breech.  Why the play on words?  One of the things that I have focused on in this blog as well as in my career at Gartner is innovation [...]

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I guess we will see.  Mantissa Corporation announced last week their intention to provide support for Windows desktops on IBM mainframes.  This is, of course, does not require a total stretch of the imagination as Linux has run on the mainframe for years.  But this is, I believe, a first for Windows, and especially, Windows-based [...]

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Good comments by my colleague Tom Bittman on the recent Citrix and Microsoft news.  What’s interesting to me though is the now strategic emphasis on management technology by Citrix.  And of course Microsoft continues to invest in System Center and VMware in vCenter and other management add-ons.  As hypervisor platform commoditization grows, where will these [...]

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As we’ve observed from the major virtualization platform providers, we are now starting to see more cost and TCO calculators for cloud computing.  Amazon has had one for awhile.  Here’s another that compares Amazon to an on premises solution.  This tool appears to be a generic SaaS versus on premise evaluator.  Rackspace/Mosso seems to have [...]

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I just came across an interesting paper on a VMware project called PARDA.  The acronym stands for Proportional Allocation of Resources for Distributed Storage Access and represents an attempt to potentially deal with increasing virtualization I/O concerns using a "proportional-share resource scheduler that can provide service differentiation for I/O like VMware already provides for CPU [...]

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Thought I’d pass along an interesting link.  Microsoft has been doing some work on analyzing IT operations costs.  They have a URL www.spotlightoncost.com where you can access a study (note: requires registration) on operations best practices (and their cost impacts) against a set of six server types (i.e., email, print servers, etc.).  While the cost [...]

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Sorry for the lapse in blogging … no excuse other than to promise to do better from now on out.  I thought that I’d start out by telling those that care what I’m focusing on this year.  I’m still covering virtualization management … in fact, this is one of the reasons for my blogging "vacation" [...]

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Last November, IBM announced their latest "Five in Five" listing of innovations.  These are to be breakthroughs that will dramatically shape our lives and world over the next five years.  Their listing included:

Energy saving solar technology will be built into asphalt, paint and windows
You will have a crystal ball for your health
You will [...]

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I was tempted to file this under the title of “who cares?,” but once more I found something somewhat off topic firing up some of my neurons.  In the IT operations realm, we are often confronted with difficult problems to triage.  Yet as individuals we sometimes choose to focus on the less complex problems first.  [...]

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