TechNews feedJun 2007
Management consultants
2007/June/30 Filed in: IT
Robert Townsend on management consultants:
"[They] waste time, cost money, demoralize and distract your best people, and don't solve problems. They are people who borrow your watch to tell you what time it is and then walk off with it."
"Up the organization"
"[They] waste time, cost money, demoralize and distract your best people, and don't solve problems. They are people who borrow your watch to tell you what time it is and then walk off with it."
"Up the organization"
Google updates Docs & Spreadsheets
2007/June/29 Filed in: Technology
Google has, once again, updated Google Docs & Spreadsheets, its key initiative to bring users to break independence from the OS and use Internet services.
Despite small, the changes are a signal that Google will continue investing in this technology (and the enabling technologies beneath it). A good signal, IMHO.
You can check Google Apps here.
Despite small, the changes are a signal that Google will continue investing in this technology (and the enabling technologies beneath it). A good signal, IMHO.
You can check Google Apps here.
Hot, HOT, virtualization field: Xen, VMware and the new stuff: Qumranet, KVM, Parallels and ... Microsoft VS
2007/June/28 Filed in: Technology
In an interesting article, TechTarget provides a quick overview of the recent developments in new virtualization solutions (here).
Despite being quite recent, KVM has provided an impressive feature set and promises interesting developments in the near future (although I consider the Xen/hypervisor approach much better).
Meanwhile, Xen is gaining momentum, VMware is fast enriching its solution and the old goat, Microsoft, is not standing still but it does seem that it's clearly reacting, not leading the field.
Despite being quite recent, KVM has provided an impressive feature set and promises interesting developments in the near future (although I consider the Xen/hypervisor approach much better).
Meanwhile, Xen is gaining momentum, VMware is fast enriching its solution and the old goat, Microsoft, is not standing still but it does seem that it's clearly reacting, not leading the field.
VKernel: self-contained VMware monitoring/capacity planning appliance
2007/June/25 Filed in: Technology
Quite interesting for a FREE addition to an ESX farm. It comes in the form of a VM that has performance monitoring, capacity planning and chargeback reporting.
Reports: http://www.vkernel.com/reports.htm
Homepage: http://www.vkernel.com/index.asp
Reports: http://www.vkernel.com/reports.htm
Homepage: http://www.vkernel.com/index.asp
Virtualization news: DXtreme. ESX Lite & 64-bit Xen
2007/June/21 Filed in: Technology
Lots of interesting news around virtualization this week.
Xen beats VMware to native 64-bit punch - here
VMware performance spikes with InovaWave DXtreme, users say - here
Interesting to see that the concepts & solutions already done for high-end virtualization solutions, in the mainframe and Unix worlds (IBM & Sun), are now being re-discovered in the PC virtualization world too. I think it's a matter of weeks before DXtreme is bought by VMWare or Microsoft.
VMware prepping embedded 'ESX Lite' hypervisor - here
This is the most interesting piece of news and could mark a significant departure for IT datacenters in how virtualization is approached, becoming a lot more commoditized than it is today.
Xen beats VMware to native 64-bit punch - here
VMware performance spikes with InovaWave DXtreme, users say - here
Interesting to see that the concepts & solutions already done for high-end virtualization solutions, in the mainframe and Unix worlds (IBM & Sun), are now being re-discovered in the PC virtualization world too. I think it's a matter of weeks before DXtreme is bought by VMWare or Microsoft.
VMware prepping embedded 'ESX Lite' hypervisor - here
This is the most interesting piece of news and could mark a significant departure for IT datacenters in how virtualization is approached, becoming a lot more commoditized than it is today.