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Some Thoughts on the Cloud Connect Conference

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:39 +0100

I ventured out to the Cloud Connect conference and expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center this morning. Unlike most trips to industry events where I take part in the transportation cloud, usually... [Read More...]

IBM Announces Latest Offerings in eX5 Portfolio

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

IBM has announced three new servers that are based on the fifth-generation IBM Enterprise X-Architecture chip (eX5). [Read More...]

IBM to Put Billions upon Billions of Files in the Cloud

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Storage solutions have traditionally retained more of the traditional siloed approach than their server brethren, yet part of the challenge lies in the fundamental difference between how storage is consumed and how applications are. [Read More...]

IBM Announces New POWER7 Servers

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The sheer size of this announcement cannot be underestimated; just one glance at the press release shows a litany of technology and product detail that is not easily dismissed as just another upgrade. [Read More...]

EMC Shrinking Storage to Meet the Expanding Need?

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

This announcement might be overlooked as simply an update to a venerable series of storage products. However, these new offerings are a clever approach to meet the growing need for corporate storage challenges. [Read More...]

Omnifone and HP Partner to Distribute MusicStation Desktop

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:33:01 +0100

Earlier this week Omnifone and HP announced a partnership to distribute the MusicStation Desktop music service on 16 HP PC models in 10 European countries. The service will provide unlimited access... [Read More...]

The Value of the Workload Optimized Approach

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0100

To meet current and future business requirements, IT strategy must meet an expectation of a dynamic IT infrastructure that seamlessly blends business process with IT resources to enable the making of informed, realtime decisions at the poi [Read More...]

The Need for Integrated Systems Management on x86 Platforms

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:00:00 +0100

Effective systems management is not achieved simply through add-on software; rather it demands a holistic point of view manifest through systemic innovation. Accepting a less-than-comprehensive management solution is no longer an option. [Read More...]

EMC, the Acadian Accomplices, and the Private Cloud

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:57:32 +0100

Once again I find myself the lucky recipient of the honorable identifier, AA 197 seat 22D, and as such have a few hours to kill in a rather austere low humidity environment. Thank goodness for my... [Read More...]

Oracle announces its OLTP Database Machine

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0100

This announcement illustrates a strong focus on continued competitive differentiation, a differentiation that is likely to accelerate should the proposed Oracle + Sun merger come to fruition. [Read More...]

Musings on 1st day of IDF - Whither Itanium?

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:32:30 +0100

OK, so I managed another early start on my day and caught Caltrain #217 to San Francisco. Destination: Moscone West, my day home away from home, and Intel's Developer Forum (IDF). The trek to IDF is... [Read More...]

Pondering VMware and the Road Ahead

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:50:35 +0100

Monday was the beginning of the week-long virtualization love fest known as VMworld 2009. Although the exposition did not start until Tuesday, Monday was a day of tutorials, preparation, and an... [Read More...]

When New becomes old and old is Renewed Again?

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:57:35 +0100

OK, so I find myself again at 37,000 feet fighting dehydration and the limitations of American Airlines 1023 seat 9D, (hey at least it is an improvement over 14E of the previous flight leg.) Not that... [Read More...]

JavaONE: Bright Future or Riding off into the Sunset?

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:55:00 +0100

As I made my way to the train station, I pondered what I was going to see and hear at JavaONE - an event that is very long in tooth, at least in Internet years. [Read More...]

Oracle and Sun, Sitting in a Tree, M-E-R-G-I-N-G

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:00:00 +0100

Does a one stop shop with a comprehensive single vendor solution meet the expectations of the best of breed, open source, heterogeneous marketplace of the 21st century? [Read More...]

No Sun in the Big Blue sky

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:29:43 +0100

OK, so IBM is backing away from Sun after the latest round of negotiations. While there has been much speculation about the sale price and just how much CYA IBM would be willing to afford the... [Read More...]

Citrix Announces XenServer 5

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0100

This announcement is interesting as it represents more than just the latest version of a virtualization offering; it illustrates the potential for transforming application delivery environment that we posited last year. [Read More...]

The Virtual Appliance?

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:41:01 +0100

In the world of IT the demarcation between servers, storage, networking, software, and a bevy of other devices is becoming is less clear every day. In particular, this got me thinking about one piece... [Read More...]

IBM Announces New Power Systems

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Happily, with this announcement, organizations that are serious about consolidating UNIX, Linux, and i5/OS applications into a simplified solution can now do this very task in a state-of-the-art blade environment. [Read More...]

New 3.2 Gigabit FireWire

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Fasteners are generally not all that exciting and can viewed as a commodity. But in the case of FireWire, and its latest high-speed specification, the potential impact is more than a mere commodity could deliver. [Read More...]

Red Hat Releases JBoss Developer Studio

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

With this announcement, the potential of a comprehensive IDE that supports all development tasks, whether they are Java-, Ajax-, or Linux-based, has become a reality. [Read More...]

EMC Updates Invista SAN Virtualization

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

As we have said before, EMC has taken the view that virtualization should occur as far down into the network as possible to take advantage of the increasing intelligence of the underlying network. [Read More...]

3PAR Introduces 3cV

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Typically, when we see multiple vendors working together to promote solutions that provide a surety of interactivity across the range of IT infrastructure we are heartened and applaud their efforts. [Read More...]

Fujitsu Siemens Computers New CentricStor Storage Solution

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The mantra of tape is dead continues to echo throughout the marketplace; however, the reality of simple economics along with a new green twist on tape illustrates how it continues to enjoy a viable position in many organizations. [Read More...]

OpenSolaris and the System z

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The mainframe has continuously re-proven its abilities as a virtualized consolidation platform for a variety of nontraditional workloads including those based on Java and Linux. [Read More...]

IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Through its support for most of the standard and common interconnect technologies in the datacenter, OFM offers organizations a straightforward method to interconnect new blade chassis investments into existing datacenter architecture. [Read More...]

HP Blades: flexibility and efficiency in the data center

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

What's troubling about this announcement is not the technology, nor the vision of the company, but rather the seeming need by the company to promote a larger-than-necessary aura around everything HP. [Read More...]

HP updates Integrity systems

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Although incremental improvements in processor speed is pretty much a given, focusing solely on the processor itself misses the largest picture. [Read More...]

Fujitsu Siemens Computers updates x10sure virtualization

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

For small organizations seeking clustering or advanced virtualization and failover without a gold-plated price tag, the level of High Availability that x10sure provides would likely qualify as good enough for many organizations. [Read More...]

IBM announces new POWER6 Blade and energy efficiency software

rss@it-analysis.com (Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc.) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

While POWER blades are not new, this is the first POWER6 blade and more importantly, the first blade equipped with APV and Live Partition Mobility. [Read More...]