Virtualization is the art of creating an abstraction layer between the physical constraints of infrastructure while maintaining an equal or better end-user experience. The abstraction layer provides greater flexibility for companies in order to adapt to changing market situations, new IT service requirements, regulatory compliance, budget cuts and other challenges. So therefore the virtualization technology [...]
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What virtualization technology to focus on?
Posted in My two cents, Services, Storage, tagged grid, SAN, Storage, virtualization on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Data in the clouds and storage grids
Posted in My two cents, Services, Storage, tagged capacity, cloud, fc, grid, iscsi, SAN, Storage on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not too long ago I wrote a small piece for a forum describing view on grid storage. I liked so now I am posting it here as well. Enjoy! Capacity and performance Grids can scale to incredibly large capacities as each storage node normally will add more resources to both capacity and computational power. Other [...]
What’s up?
Posted in Services, tagged ITIL, service delivery, systems administration, user experience on March 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The question of if we are up or not can sometimes be a tricky one to answer. Just because your monitoring software says your httpd is running and the database is up does not necessarily mean that all is well in Userland. In fact sluggish response times and or external connectivity problems may cause your [...]
