Doing Three Things at Once
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Doing Three Things at Once

In the past several years data center admins have continually deployed virtualization software onto their servers. My own company's IT department (EMC IT) actually tracked the percentage of virtualizated versus…
Business Production in Georgia
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Business Production in Georgia

I've written several posts describing how EMC's IT department has improved quality of service by tracking "percent virtualization" of their IT-owned server assets. Once the team had virtualized roughly one-third…
VPLEX Quality
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VPLEX Quality

I recall writing a 2009 post about private cloud in which I theorized about ceding internal, private-cloud control of virtual machines to an external cloud. At the time I used…
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The Archer Acquisition
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The Archer Acquisition

One of my last posts of 2009 discussed my thoughts on the "most valuable" EMC acquisition of the previous decade: RSA. When EMC announced its newest acquisition on Monday, Archer…
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Medical Cloud Formations

The latest issue of ON Magazine describes use cases for three early "cloud adopters": the National Business Center, Hill Air Force Base, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).In particular…