With the arrival of vSphere 4.0, it’s a good time to revisit your guest standards. Not just what virtual hardware and resource allocations you use by default, but also what standard software you deploy into the guest. Virtualisation has been labelled a game changing technology, but when most people talk of this, they refer to [...]
Back… caught u lookin for the same thing. It’s a new thing, check out this… oh no wait. It ain’t a new thing, it’s just another Sunday Arvo Architecture And Philoshopy post. This time I’m going to focus on a long time thorn in many of our sides – the myth of infrastructure resource contention.
This [...]
Welcome to the first SAAAP of 2009. And boy am I feeling philosophical today . The similarities between this post and David Isenberg’s article Rise of the Stupid Network end with the title, but if you haven’t read Isenberg’s article you should do so – the principles he outlined over 10 years ago are [...]
VDI that is. Technically that should say ‘terminal services’, but I had to get in a Christmas themed post title before the 25th
Remember back when VDI reached that tipping point in the enterprise? It was hailed as offering unprecedented levels of flexibility. Hailed as the slayer of terminal server based environments with their [...]
The hardware vs software race is becoming more and more a hare vs tortoise these days, with the advent of multicore. And you can understand why – concurrency is hard. _Very_ hard. But oddly enough, I don’t see much on the intertubes about people changing their hardware standards, except for the odd bit of marketing.
Although [...]
First, my heart goes out to out to all those who have found themselves out of a job during these dark financial times. I hope you won’t find this post antagonistic in any way, it is obviously written from the perspective of someone who is still gainfully employed in a large enterprise (but what the [...]
I’ve been a bit quiet of late, mainly due to the digestion of Microsoft’s PDC 2008 content (what a great idea to provide the content for free after the conference – VMware could take a leaf out of that book). I meant to post this up yesterday as another SAAAP installment but missed the deadline… [...]
