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The great server-centricity con job

June 13, 2010
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by Steve Barnett of VMC, and originally published on their VM Yak blog:
Hardware today allows for higher and higher consolidation ratios “even if it is not our hardware”. More and more dense ram configurations are available but according to IDC the average number of VMs run on a single piece of physical hardware remains stubbornly [...]

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Server sales soar as we virtualise more

May 28, 2010
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Steve at Virtual Machine Co. has just sent us a link to this item on theregister.com about IDC’s report on server sales figures for Q1 2010, and provides his take on what they reveal.
First-quarter 2010 server sales figures released by IDC show factory gate prices up 4.6% to $10.42 billion, meaning server sales in 2010 [...]

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Virtualisation significantly cuts power costs

April 27, 2010
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How business must heed the British government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment to keep the costs of running their data centres low.

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The Cloud’s PCs on the internet, innit?

March 1, 2010
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Steve & Nick of VMCo. point us to another useful online video, this time featuring Simon Wardley of Canonical talking about the power of Compute as a Service (CaaS) using the cloud.

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Cloud computing as defined by NIST

February 22, 2010
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Steve & Nick of The Virtual Machine Company draw our attention to NIST’s definition of Cloud Computing, courtesy of their VMYak blog.

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