Archive for April, 2009
vSphere 4 – The Next Great Thing
It’s official. There’s about a zillion blog postings and news articles coming out about the next generation of ESX.
In watching the press conference yesterday the one thing that really hit me is that this is the next game changer. Cloud computing has been stuck for years in lock-in approaches. [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: cloud, vi4, VMware, vSphere
Mass DDoS attacks against DNS Registrars
Good friend of mine calls me and hollers on 1 Apr that his websites aren’t working. I look and find out that the DNS servers at register.com aren’t responding. After a call to Register.com they say “not our issue and is something happening to the net”.
Guess it is their issue.
My friend can’t wait for this [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: DDoS
Sad Sad days..
Sun to be bought by IBM for $7 billion. SGI bought by Rackable for $25 million.
The SGI purchase I can understand as Rackable wants to be a one stop shop for their customers. SGI has been on a downward spiral for years. Who needs to buy a super expensive custom OS/Hardware to do graphics [...]