Time, Distance and Acceptable Response
Author: Larry VertalI’m irritated by Muons. They are such show offs. Not all Muons, just the local punks that cascade down from the outer atmosphere. I resent their trickiness in getting around their...
View ArticleThe Two Percent Solution?
Author: Larry VertalAs the subject of datacenter and IT footprints versus the airline industry keeps cropping up, I figured I’d try one more time to clarify things a bit. The statements around this...
View ArticleGreen Clouds
At face value it is pretty compelling that moving to Cloud model be it private, hybrid or public should have among its benefits a greening. The core enabler of the Cloud models is virtualization that...
View ArticleDatacenters Destroy Civilization and Your Dog is Ugly
Author: Larry VertalJames Glanz of the New York Times did folks in the datacenter industry a big favor. Things have been sort of slow in regard to controversy lately and there is a pent up need to...
View ArticleC-Level Perception and Reality
Author: Larry VertalAs in most things regarding humans, there is self perception, external perception and then reality. What is often not understood in our contemporary world of title inflation is...
View ArticleDatacenters as Mini-Malls: Pushing the Model Envelope?
Author: Larry VertalIn the U.S., the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) play really started accelerating 40 years ago with shopping centers, mini-malls and apartment complexes. The REIT model has...
View ArticleBest and Brightest at All Levels: the New Normal
Author: Larry VertalAs we enter the next half-decade or the second decade, depending on your perspective, of economic instability and near zero predictability of the context in which businesses must...
View ArticleDeer in the Headlights and DCIM
Author: Larry VertalHow many products, suites and services are out there tagged as Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions? I lost count awhile back when various trackers claimed the...
View ArticleBetter Buckets: Smarter2020
Author: Larry VertalIt was nice to see the December release by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) of what is more than just an update to the Smart 2020 report of 2008. It was more than...
View ArticleNot Tomorrow but Coming: Rise of the Wimps
Author: Larry VertalAs someone that has spent a not small portion of his time in the server space, I admit I’m a sucker for anything server and frankly hardware generally. Add to Daily RSS: 0 read more
View ArticleClients: The Same but Different
Author: Larry VertalEverything old is new again. Online Service Bureaus re-emerge a decade later as Application Service Providers (ASPs) which then re-appear as some type of Cloud Services thingy –...
View ArticleIndustry Inaction versus Government Action
Author: Larry VertalIn February, U.S. representatives Anna G. Eshoo and Mike Rogers introduced the Energy Efficient Government Technology Act focused on datacenters. While the bill features provisions...
View ArticleBig Data Silly Season
Author: Larry VertalMuch like Cloud computing recently was and almost every other new computing trend back to the discovery of the wheel, we are in the silly season of Big Data. Why don’t you know,...
View ArticleWimpy Proof Points
Author: Larry VertalIn principal, the application configured server or “software defined server” as HP is calling it with their announcement recently of the Moonshot system is quite compelling in...
View ArticleBig Iron Reminds Us to Temper Expectations
Author: Larry VertalPeople know that I’m enthusiastic about the potential of Wimpy cores in the data center (Not Tomorrow but Coming: Rise of the...
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