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Re: What’s the equivalent of ILO in an IBM server?

Pugalenthi — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:45:39 -0000

RSA II in IBM Equvalent to HP ILO.In Dell DRAC

Re: Bladewatch drinks 14th October

ST2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:00:26 -0000

Will see if I can make it

Re: How to reboot the HP ILO/kick off a hung session

Adipex_Phentermine_Pill — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:12:23 -0000

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Re: IBM and Syracuse University data center

Adipex_Phentermine_Pill — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:05:45 -0000

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Re: Sun/Oracle continue the innovation

console xbox 360 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:11:21 -0000

I think sun/oracle is the most innovative company in the world since their idea are unique and superb.
They openly invited us and said that You are invited to attend an exclusive webcast event where Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will unveil an innovative new product, the world’s first OLTP (online transaction processing) database machine with Sun’s brand new FlashFire technology.

Re: ABN Amro to freeze the sales process.

john191 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:02:26 -0000

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Re: What’s in store for the IT guys?

swingtrading — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:46:22 -0000

Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: How old is my Compaq/HP server – what should be virtualized?

viewyonder — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:54:30 -0000

This is a good discussion. Everything should be virtualized, including old servers, unless they are no longer needed, for the reasons you state.

Re: Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems brings new possibilities

Malaysia VMware Communities — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:11:14 -0000

I'm really looking forward to see UCS available in Malaysia and compatible price.

Re: Just testing firmware 1.94 for HP ILO (lights out)

Simvirus — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:20:39 -0000

HP .. stop making virus instead of firmware!

BAD FIRMWARE
BAD SUPPORT

See this:

http://www.whynotthis.net/f4/hp-server-ilo-dl36...

PS: There are another thread with this problem! It's ridiculous!

Re: How will green IT and virtualization change the landscape?

hodders — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:23:40 -0000

From the conversations we have been having, it’s evident that chief information officers are definitely looking to make sure they're not missing out any easy opportunities for savings they haven't thought of yet.

Cutting energy waste, reducing carbon emissions and improving resource efficiency is firmly on the CIO agenda and the returns are persuasive. In today’s economy, it is the role of the CIO to integrate and rationalize business information to facilitate sound business decisions and create and deploy an agile enterprise information infrastructure that supports business strategy and leverages existing assets. Cross charging can be seen as a viable consideration as the IT department and business leaders take on more of an appreciation of the synergies between each other’s roles.

So to answer your question ‘how will Green IT and virtualisation change the landscape? The answer is simple. Green IT and virtualisation are natural evolutions. Perhaps it’s more a case of ‘enhance’ rather than ‘change’; either way, it’s an evolution that must be taken charge of and cannot be ignored.

Re: Sorry that’s in the extra bundle – but is that extra indirectly core to your product/your value proposition?

daniel_uk — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:43:13 -0000

Greedy vendors gota love em....you'd think in the credit crunch we'd be getting BOGOF deals....A lot of avoiding what you say is reliant on vendor negoiation and technical design tactic however unfortunately the lack of openess means yes we get locked in and those poxy vendors have the upper hand on every renewal...

Not sure why you say this has not increased OSS popularity, I see a larger trend in OSS popularity in the last 2-3 years mainly due to companies being sick of paying the likes of Microsoft and Oracle ludicrous volumes of cash for licenses that only ever 25% of the features get used. Add to this the rediculous issues with licensing proprietory software on VMware and you have even more reason to move to open source.

Re: Talking about cloud

hodders — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:29:24 -0000

The referenced article says that the time is right for HPC vendors to muscle in on providing cloud solutions, but grid applications are those in which the applications are optimized for segregation into many calculation packets, probably in a scale-out environment. Where this occurs in a wide-area network (think the SETI screensavers), there are similarities to that of establishing a cloud infrastructure. The core of this and the most important word we should be focusing on is the infrastructure. The infrastructure needs to be in place, secure, robust, and dynamic - probably with a dash of virtualization. At IBM, we offer solutions and advanced technology that provide the DNA needed to deploy a dynamic infrastructure that helps a company to thrive. Dynamic Infrastructure is a part of the journey towards cloud computing.

What of the comparison between grid and cloud computing? Well, grid is not cloud and cloud is not grid. They may both be buzzwords, but they are different buzzwords. Can grid computing be transferred into a cloud? Different question, but probably, yes.

Perhaps the question CIOs should ask themselves is "is my infrastructure ready for cloud computing, if that is what helps the business?".

Re: GridWiseTech publishes document on improving database performance

saifattar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:20:26 -0000

Having read the article, I was surprised at how many of the problems I could identify with.

It provides an excellent summary of the methods that can be taken to solve the database problems that we are currently facing. I look forward to putting them into practice.

Overall a concise and informative take on the database problem.

Re: Talking about everything in blade servers

lukeshutler — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:43:20 -0000

Scott Alan Miler raises some interesting points in his article, particularly the point he makes about virtualising a SAN infrastructure – blades are indeed beneficial to this kind of environment, offering maximum advantage in terms of flexibility. However, for a small business, virtualising a blade server-based SAN infrastructure can be seen as prohibitive from a cost perspective, so that’s why we at IBM have combined servers, switches, a management component and importantly, an entire storage area network into a single flexible and low-cost solution (BladeCenter S) for small businesses which allows you to ‘virtualise everything’ while helping to lower running and management costs

Re: How will green IT and virtualization change the landscape?

Greg Ratcliff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:01:38 -0000

While many of us constantly strive to be as green as possible, as business managers we have a responsibility to our businesses to maximize the profitability of our organizations. These may appear to be in conflict, but there are reasonable and appropriate improvements we can implement today. From choosing servers with high efficiency power supplies to retiring hardware in favor of utilizing virtual servers, we can satisfy both goals. For example, simply improving PUE may not result in the best overall efficiency (which is maximum output for a given input), but the previous suggestions do. Many of these decisions simultaneously provide an ROI and support green initiatives. Just as consumers have demanded greener, more efficient vehicles and the industry has begun to respond, so it has begun with data centers.

Re: Server sales impact from of cloud/virtualization?

lukeshutler — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:43:37 -0000

So, are cloud/virtualization solutions/projects affecting server sales? Well, I’d say you’re absolutely right to bring in the economic argument. While the server market can be challenging this year, the root cause is in the economic downturn rather more than any threat from the uptake of interest in cloud computing or virtualisation solutions. So, I wonder whether this is a question we should be asking ourselves at all?

Leaving the server sales argument to one side, virtualisation and cloud computing could well create a market where ‘apps teams buy servers’ to a market where ‘apps teams buy services’ but simply put, cloud computing and virtualisation are evolutions of data centres and both are business delivery models that require a mix of software, services and hardware – a trio that will always be complimentary and co-exist in any infrastructure, virtual or otherwise.

We at IBM have been focusing our efforts around creating a hardware, software and services stack that brings together the strengths of the web-centric cloud computing model and today’s enterprise data center, providing dynamic allocation of computing resources for a mix of workloads on a massively scalable, secure, heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure

Re: Talking about AMD’s Opteron processors

debt help — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:39:55 -0000

I will have to admit that I'm an AMD fan boy, but it does seem that lately they have been getting kicked around by Intel's superior chips more than not.

Re: What does cloud computing mean to you?

Alex — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:50:03 -0000

I have a set of posts with a short overview to cloud computing at http://www.langabe.org/2009/07/cloud-computing-...

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Re: Virtualization is dead, cloud and virtualized data centers are next

bj79 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:29 -0000

A really interesting green computer technology I found is Userful Multiplier. It's where multiple people can use the same computer at the same time each with their own monitor, mouse and keyboard. This saves a lot of electricity and e-waste. A company called Userful recently set a virtualization world record by delivering over 350,000 virtual desktops to schools in Brazil. They have a free 2-user version for home use too. Check it out: http://www.userful.com

Re: Recruiting through LinkedIn amongst others the way forward?

Jen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:02:33 -0000

As a youthful college graduate, I am finding sites like linkedin very helpful in building my networking skills. I have discovered the importance of developing a personal brand and putting my name out there. Another site that I really admire is joined.com which involves a younger community that is great for meeting other graduates that are being thrown into the career field for the first time.

Re: DOJ to look at deals between mobile makers and networks

bladewatch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:47:59 -0000

I love the comment "Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading, the two main regulators of the UK mobile sector, say no one in the UK has complained about exclusive deals." - Just ask anyone and you'll get one of two main responses to the question, got an iPhone yet?

I don't want to sign up to o2 - I'm happy with (insert T-mobile/Three/Vodafone or Orange to mention a few)

The tariffs are expensive and (or) you have to pay for the handset

The main issue I have is the locking to networks, with a Nokia, Samsung or any other device I can buy it offline, plug it in to the network of choice and it will work.

With the iPhone I have to download a crack which may or may not invalidate my warranty and may at a later date stop working with any associated software updates. Have an exclusive deal, absolutely link user experience, user revenue to a network of choice, however release the phone for sale offline and separate the system software from the network, so that if I buy it offline it will work on any network without 'Jailbreak' or hacking it.

Re: Patch Downloader v6.0 announced

steve — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:54:41 -0000

Finding a robust patch management solution is becoming more and more difficult as machines are less and less accessible to the management console. I have found success using patch management from Kaseya. Because of the agent based framework, I have connectivity to every machine that is connected to the Internet, independent of location.

Re: What does cloud computing mean to you?

joey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:47:20 -0000

Thank you for the information.

However, you might want to have a look at this interesting article on Three debates that will benefit cloud computing.

Here is the link to the article -
http://www.webguild.org/2009/07/three-debates-t...