Before I get into this posting, I want to apologize for going "silent" for a few weeks. I spent a week clearing a bunch of on-deadline projects off my desk so I could spend a vacation week obsessing about my "new" boat.
At 25 years old, most folks would not call my boat "new." Welcome to my life, in which Charlie spends inordinate amounts of time hunting the greater Chicago area looking for a fixer-upper that will provide an excuse for endless hours of puttering around in the workshop.
Anyway, I finally got the thing:
1. Legally titled and registered;
2. Tested to the point where I could believe it would both float and take me where I want to go;
3. Moved from the far side of Lake Michigan up the Illinois river to its berth at the (name suppressed on account of paranoia) marina, stopping for a week along the way to haul the thing out to check for damage after hitting a massive object drifting just under the surface in the middle of the channel;
4. Moved again to another (and far more expensive) berth to satisfy my wife's insistence on being in the Ritzy-cratic part of town; and
5. Finally getting in a one-day fun cruise.
Now that I list it all out, it does seem like an awful lot to have accomplished in less than a month!
Now to business: before wandering off to play boats, I'd started covering developments at (mostly) Cisco Systems surrounding virtualization technology. Mainstream media, including business media, haven't said much of anything about this development, despite 2-3 press releases coming over the wire per day. I know 'cause I've watched.
Apparently, virtualization, which is going to end up being built into every operating system for nearly every computer on the planet and will change the way we use computers forever, is too sophisticated for the liberal-arts majors running mass media. So, as usual, they're ignoring it.
In previous posts, I've explained what virtualization is and a little of what it brings to the party. Today, I want to give you a link to a series of seminars sponsored by Schneider Electric's APC unit that can help you learn a little more about it and other landscape-changing developments. To learn more about the seminars, visit the company's APC Learning page, and look for events with NetApp Alliance in the title. The series kicks off on 2 June with a seminar located in Chicago.
Entitled the "Go Green and Stop the Red" event series. The half-day seminars, co-hosted by APC, Microsoft and NetApp, at their technology demonstration centers across the United States, will examine how to leverage advances in data center applications and architecture to yield a more positive impact on the environment and the company's bottom line. One of those advances, as I've subtly intimated, is virtualization.
"Businesses are continually faced with the challenge of how to maximize efficiency and savings, while minimizing space and waste," said Alistair Pim, APC's vice president of global strategic alliances. "This event series features presentations from experts that look at how adopting sustainable IT practices, such as virtualization, can be cost effective solutions for long-term business growth."
"Deploy virtualization projects to save assets, support and energy costs. Such projects can produce a reduction of more than 80% in energy consumption," stated Rakesh Kumar, Gartner's research vice president, in the May 7, 2009 report "How to Cut Your Data Center Costs.
At 25 years old, most folks would not call my boat "new." Welcome to my life, in which Charlie spends inordinate amounts of time hunting the greater Chicago area looking for a fixer-upper that will provide an excuse for endless hours of puttering around in the workshop.
Anyway, I finally got the thing:
1. Legally titled and registered;
2. Tested to the point where I could believe it would both float and take me where I want to go;
3. Moved from the far side of Lake Michigan up the Illinois river to its berth at the (name suppressed on account of paranoia) marina, stopping for a week along the way to haul the thing out to check for damage after hitting a massive object drifting just under the surface in the middle of the channel;
4. Moved again to another (and far more expensive) berth to satisfy my wife's insistence on being in the Ritzy-cratic part of town; and
5. Finally getting in a one-day fun cruise.
Now that I list it all out, it does seem like an awful lot to have accomplished in less than a month!
Now to business: before wandering off to play boats, I'd started covering developments at (mostly) Cisco Systems surrounding virtualization technology. Mainstream media, including business media, haven't said much of anything about this development, despite 2-3 press releases coming over the wire per day. I know 'cause I've watched.
Apparently, virtualization, which is going to end up being built into every operating system for nearly every computer on the planet and will change the way we use computers forever, is too sophisticated for the liberal-arts majors running mass media. So, as usual, they're ignoring it.
In previous posts, I've explained what virtualization is and a little of what it brings to the party. Today, I want to give you a link to a series of seminars sponsored by Schneider Electric's APC unit that can help you learn a little more about it and other landscape-changing developments. To learn more about the seminars, visit the company's APC Learning page, and look for events with NetApp Alliance in the title. The series kicks off on 2 June with a seminar located in Chicago.
Entitled the "Go Green and Stop the Red" event series. The half-day seminars, co-hosted by APC, Microsoft and NetApp, at their technology demonstration centers across the United States, will examine how to leverage advances in data center applications and architecture to yield a more positive impact on the environment and the company's bottom line. One of those advances, as I've subtly intimated, is virtualization.
"Businesses are continually faced with the challenge of how to maximize efficiency and savings, while minimizing space and waste," said Alistair Pim, APC's vice president of global strategic alliances. "This event series features presentations from experts that look at how adopting sustainable IT practices, such as virtualization, can be cost effective solutions for long-term business growth."
"Deploy virtualization projects to save assets, support and energy costs. Such projects can produce a reduction of more than 80% in energy consumption," stated Rakesh Kumar, Gartner's research vice president, in the May 7, 2009 report "How to Cut Your Data Center Costs.
Seminars will feature industry experts who will demonstrate how
to:
* Connect virtual and physical infrastructures to achieve a holistic view of your data center energy consumption.
* Accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve cost efficiencies by
implementing data management solutions.
* Build pay-as-you-grow data center architecture to reduce operating expenses today and plan more effectively for tomorrow.
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