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How UCSB Grad Students Put Cloud Computing Power into Ubuntu

July 23, 2009

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud package includes the UCSB-developed Eucalyptus cloud-building software--the first Linux distribution to include a do-it-yourself cloud kit.

Microsoft Reveals SQL Azure Database Plans

July 14, 2009

Microsoft releases pricing details for SQL Azure Database and announces plans for a CTP later in 2009.

Nirvanix Storing Archived Photos from NASA Lunar Orbiter in the Cloud

June 30, 2009

High-definition digital photos of the moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are the latest tenants in the cloud.

HP, VMware Team Up on Virtualization Management

June 17, 2009

HP and VMware are looking to make it easier for businesses to manage their virtual and physical client and server environments.

Backup of Databases in VMware

November 3, 2008

With the recent explosion of the use of VMware there has been a great deal of talk around the best way to back up these virtual machine environments.

NetApp's 50% Virtualization Guarantee: The Real Story...

October 3, 2008

At a time of rising financial worries leave it to NetApp to lighten the mood of the industry and give us all a good hearty laugh by coming out with another of its "Trust us, we don't have a capacity utilization problem"

Today's LeftHand Networks Announcement

October 1, 2008

As the dust settles on the announcement of the HP & Oracle Exadata machine, along comes another interesting announcement. HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks (See press release). I'm sure a lot of press and analyst opinion will focus on the benefits to HP of beefing up our iSCSI portfolio or gaining access to some of the strong server and storage virtualization capabilities of the LeftHand Networks solution, or of the opportunity to sell to more mid-market customers with HP storage or even on the channel synergies and worldwide expansion opportunities of the acquisition.

Storage Capacity Efficiency - Not Quite So Final

September 3, 2008

EMC's Chuck Hollis recently posted quite a blog stream on storage capacity efficiency. His latest post concluded "it's time to step back a bit from the fray." It is quite a fray. But, my step back to look at the big picture uncovered some different thoughts from Chuck's. He started this with a case where a chosen interpretation of best practices could make CX look better than EVA. Of course, if one levels the playing field by letting EMC configure the CX (like Chuck did) and HP configure the EVA they both come out around 70% efficiency. I appreciate that EMC recognized some of our points.

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Consolidating Database Servers
In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Ntirety CEO Michael Corey explains how the next generation of databases and virtualization technologies will combine to drive a new wave of database server consolidation and related infrastructure investments.
SQL Server Consolidation Delivers Data Center Power Savings
Data center power usage has become a primary concern for IT managers as power consumption and energy costs continue to increase. When looking for solutions to lower data center footprints, IT managers often look at SQL Server consolidation. Read this white paper and learn how HP's consolidation technology can help customers reduce server and storage count by up to 75 percent. Discover how a consolidated environment not only decreases power consumption and general overhead costs, it also increases availability and utilization rates.
SQL Server Consolidation Demo
Attend this demo and explore how SQL Server consolidation complements VMs and allows IT administrators to virtualize their databases without compromise. Learn how to streamline your database infrastructure and match capacity appropriately to need, provide high availability without introducing extra complexity and extra cost, and simplify management.
Consolidating Microsoft SQL Server with HP: Illuminata explores the user experience
Microsoft SQL Sever's relatively low cost, steadily increasing capabilities and ease of deployment have all combined to accelerate its growth.
SQL Server Consolidation: A highly available, flexible and simple approach
The success of SQL Server in recent years has produced a phenomenon of SQL Server sprawl the rampant proliferation of SQL Server databases.
The Shortcut Guide to SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization
Leading IT author Don Jones explores the management burdens and hidden costs of sub-optimal data center infrastructures and lays out the paths that IT organizations can follow to find dramatic system-wide improvements in management, performance and security locked within their existing infrastructure.
British Energy Case Study: SQL Server Consolidation Decreases Costs and Improves Performance
British Energy is the UK's largest producer of electricity and it trades its output. This case study explains how the company used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to migrate and consolidate its infrastructure, reduce costs, improve flexibility and agility, and assure a highly available environment.
Homeplans Case Study: Improve Performance and Reduce Costs with SQL Server Consolidation
This case study explains how Homeplans used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to improve availability, decrease risk, and simplify administration.

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