Monday, June 8, 2009

Virtualization vs Blades

Today I attended the  Dell’s Next Generation Datacentre Roadshow, which is basically introducing the new 11th generation of the Dell servers and the other new technologies Dell has introduced recently like the DMC, consultancy and support services.

It is interesting to see how Dell is trying to fill the gaps left by the other vendors like HP and IBM, while you see the other giants working hard in the countries like UAE and Saudi, Dell is trying to invest and focus on the smaller markets like Oman, Kuwait and Qatar…

Personally I am a big supporter for the virtualization, I installed all the whole corporate infrastructure we have on a Para-virtualized environment using Xen, which has been running smoothly so far. but when Dell focus on the virtualization technologies and claiming 9:1 reduction in power and data center space, it reminds me when the Blade servers came out also claiming almost the same advantages!

 

 

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