by Cameron Haight | April 7, 2010 | 3 Comments
With the topic of healthcare reform receiving much continued spirited debate, it’s time we turn to another area needing a new approach (and hopefully stimulating interesting debate in terms of approaches). We need to rethink how we manage the “health” of IT. It may in fact require some drastic “medicine” but in the long run [...]
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by Cameron Haight | March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
Every month I meet with a group of Gartner clients to discuss the challenges (and benefits) that they are receiving as a consequence of investing in server virtualization technology. At our February meeting, the item on the agenda was performance management. I took the liberty of presenting to the group a polling question: From what [...]
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by Cameron Haight | December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
Earlier this week, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels announced the availability of spot- (or market-) based Amazon EC2 instance pricing. In essence, a customer would bid a price and as long as the bid exceeds the spot price (and they only pay the spot price), their instances would run. Once the spot price exceeded the bid [...]
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by Cameron Haight | October 25, 2009 | 10 Comments
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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by Cameron Haight | August 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
…. 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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by Cameron Haight | March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
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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by Cameron Haight | February 25, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Cameron Haight | February 20, 2009 | Comments Off
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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by Cameron Haight | February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
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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by Cameron Haight | February 13, 2009 | Comments Off
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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