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• Time to Consider Scale Up in Virtualized Environments?

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Dec 2 2011 The recent announcement from AMD of their 16-core Opteron 6200 CPU and indeed Intel with their 10-core Xeon E7 indicates a resurgence of the scale up mentality. Indeed the virtualization Read More... Posted 02 December 2011 11:14 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Private Cloud, CIO_Agenda, Transformation |

• Why Cores STILL Matter - Continuous Workload Consolidation

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Nov 16 2011 In an earlier post related to targeted CPU power I talked about the emerging power of the x86 platform and its ability to handle even the most demanding workloads in a fully virtualized Read More... Posted 16 November 2011 07:07 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Journey to the Cloud, CIO_Agenda

• A Resurgent SPARC platform for Enterprise Cloud Workloads

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Nov 8 2011 Fujitsu has just announced that they have taken the crown in Supercomputer performance breaking past the 10 petaflop barrier . That is over 10 quadrillion operations a second. Seriously Read More... Posted 08 November 2011 11:53 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, Organizational form, CIO_Agenda

• Cloud Security Maneuvers - Governments taking Proactive Role

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Nov 4 2011 In a previous blog entitled VMworld 2011 - Practice Makes Perfect (Security), I discussed the notion of preparing actively for attack in cyberspace through readiness measures and mock maneuvers. Read More... Posted 04 November 2011 11:28 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, CIO_Agenda, Security

• Size Matters - Micro Clouds and Engineered Systems

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Nov 1 2011 In a number of blogs in the past I chart the emerging growth in capabilities of infrastructure components that most people take for granted. The reason for doing this is to continue to Read More... Posted 31 October 2011 22:38 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, CIO_Agenda

• VMworld 2011 - Practice Makes Perfect (Security)

  Imported from http://omegacloud.typepad.com/ published Oct 31 2011 During the VMworld2011 conference, the theme of security came up very strongly. Indeed, there were many parallels to the RSA Conference 2011 in Feb/2011 that echoed concerns about " putting Read More... Posted 31 October 2011 11:37 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, CIO_Agenda, Security

• Exchange Server 2010 – Keep In-house or BPOS?

  Exchange Server 2010 (E2K10) continues to be a baffling phenomenon. We have a raft of features to make E2K10 easier to manage when running at large scale. Integration with the Microsoft ecosystem (ADS, SharePoint, Outlook/Office) is of course excellent. Read More... Posted 28 May 2011 19:16 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, Organizational form, CIO_Agenda, VMware

• Holding the Fort against Virtualization – Targeted CPU Power

  After writing about the impact of CPUs in at least two previous blogs ( Multi-Core Gymnastics in a Cloud World and Terabyte…well Everything Tera Actually! (Part 1- the Servers) ) about a year ago now, I wanted to post an update to the theme. It is still Read More... Posted 22 April 2011 09:22 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 1 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Journey to the Cloud, Organizational form, CIO_Agenda, VMware

• Unlocking Latent Cloud Value - Augment Company Valuation Through Cloud Enablement Strategies

  One of the largest Cloud providers on the planet has been snapped up (Jan/2011)! Terremark was snapped up by Verizon for a cool 1.4 billion USD. Not bad at all! This is an interesting development in that the net worth of Terremark increased massively Read More... Posted 20 March 2011 17:41 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, CIO_Agenda

• “Resistance is futile!" – Resistance to Cloud; Change – Friend or Foe?

  Sorry for the title. I simply could not resist The real title should have been “ Change – Friend or Foe ?” Actually, resistance to the Cloud is still a significant stumbling block in Cloud adoption. The ability of an organization to rapidly reconfigure Read More... Posted 14 February 2011 06:25 by jaspal.dhalliwal | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Paradigm Shift, Transformation, Private Cloud, Journey to the Cloud, Organizational form, CIO_Agenda