4 Green Tech
Why blog?
May 7th
I’ve been thinking about what motivates people leave comments on blog posts or Internet articles. Chris Lau commented on one of his own posts that comments only correspond to about 0.5% of page views. In my comments I mentioned that a panelist in the referenced video noted that people who comment are non-representative of the [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 5 – High Performance Computing
Apr 30th
Now we’ve come to the earliest stage of market adoption, the Innovators. We have also come to the most interesting of computing classes, supercomputing, also commonly referred to as High Performance Computing (HPC). That HPC is the most interesting class of computing, is my perspective only, as are all these posts. If you find my [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 3 – Desktop Computers
Apr 28th
It’s Wednesday, the middle of the week, and also the middle of this series on analyzing virtualization technology by market adoption and value proposition. We’ve covered mainframe computing and compute servers, equipment the average person never sees, and even the IT professional usually administers remotely. We all use this type of computing, when we see [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 2 – Compute Servers
Apr 28th
In the first post of this series, we looked at the technology adoption life cycle, seven value propositions for market adoption of virtualization, five classes of computing and the maturity of virtualization in mainframe computers.
Over the last several years, virtual machines have seen major adoption in the commodity compute server market. I think it would [...]
Virtualization Technology Adoption – part 1
Apr 27th
This is a reworking of some thoughts on virtualization technology originally posted on my personal blog. I’m breaking it into parts so that I can elaborate a little more on each aspect.
The success of any technology depends on many factors and it is helpful to reference a technology by it’s adoption in the market. One [...]
Virtualization, beyond the hype…
Apr 22nd
My award winning team has been recognized for their work previously in virtualization, server consolidation, and use of open source Linux for over a decade now in the enterprise. We are implementing the next wave of this journey with virtualized servers and storage across the entire data center, these are our observations so far
Book review: Tom Rand, Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit
Apr 22nd
Tom Rand, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, innovator, philosopher and MaRS Discovery District advisor, just launched his book, Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World. It talks about things like solar power, wind power, hydro power, biofuels, smart buildings, and more that are leading the way to a sustainable future. Tom [...]
The Virtualized Dynamic Data Center Conference Vancouver
Apr 8th
Here’s some notes from today’s Cisco, VMware and NetApps joint presentation on virtualization and cloud computing.
Killing the silos
It is critical that as IT managers that we understanding that silos in our organization can be both good or bad.
When looking at the typical IT environment, we can easily recognize that many of our applications have been [...]
The future of wireless cellular
Apr 7th
At a decidedly lackluster hockey game last night, I had the pleasure of talking to my favorite telecommunications engineers. I won’t mention his name or his organization since it wasn’t an official interview, but I want to pass on some of his ideas that struck home with me on how the wireless industry will change in [...]
Digital Economy – Stand and be counted
Mar 15th
Two weeks ago, the federal government mentioned the delivery of a federal digital strategy as part of the throne speech. While this might not get the attention of many Canadians this is an important marker and something we all need to pay attention and get vocal about.
VDI – Who cares, its about computing anywhere
Mar 12th
I love VDI, not because it is cool, not because it can change the way we manage our security, data centers and desktop environments today, but because it is the window into the future I’ve been waiting for for a VERY long time.
Let’s put this in context. I’m a device freak, not because I want [...]
Thoughts on the IPad
Mar 12th
While many business won’t see much value in the IPad, there are numerous markets that could potentially benefit from a portable/touch screen interface. While the tablet form factor is certainly not new…
Theme: Green Technology
Jan 24th
Green Technology: One thing has become clear about green IT: It’s all about the money. Let’s investigate truly green technology, and its challenges and roles, not just green IT.
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