Believe it or not, this is actually the first true big blog post since I announced I was joining Intel. That is 1.5 years of being buried over my head in all the cool things Intel does in the data center. I could write a whole different post just on how much different I see…
Read more What if collecting data center telemetry was a snap?
I am writing this blog post to address some specific annoyances in reasoning. While I have made a career in being a Microsoft guy (along with VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Nissan sportscars) I have some serious problems with the marketing pitch around Hyper-V.
This post is inspired by this outstanding post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) and this one by Chad Sakac (@sakacc). Chuck mentions my favorite way to summarize what virtualization encompasses: “abstracts logical from physical”. What makes abstraction critical is that it breaks historical dependencies that develop as technologies are built over time. I have said this…
Image via Wikipedia Many times I have seen situations where an application or process grows incrementally to a point where it is no longer able to meet it’s SLAs (whether official or imaginary). The cause of this can vary but is usually: Overworked/Unbalanced teams – Too much effort dedicated to new feature-add and not enough…
Read more Optimization vs. Scaling: How virtualization affects the scorecard
