Blade Watch

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So was very pleased with my SilverJet flight, I arrived at Newark airport and as I type this I am waiting in the Continental lounge waiting for my flight to Tuscon.

A few thoughts I had about the conference:

• How do we maintain the momentum, the message about blade servers as a platform – I was having a chat with someone who was asking “what the big deal is?”
• How do the vendors see the blade server evolving – I wonder if there is not still a need for the blade light? Particularly if we think of convergence of SAN and network, not only can I virtualize the LANS, I can put storage through the same connection as well.
• How to encourage the green message in the right way – I was having a chat the other day with a colleage (I’m writing it up this evening), he was saying the green thing is all rubbish, it wasn’t until I re-branded the green message. I’m not saying switch everything off, I’m saying when you’re deploying that infrastructure have you thought of the low voltage version, do your development servers need dual power supplies or RAID? Could we not think of linking the green message to business enablement – by making slight changes you gain return on investment and a possible reduction in your operational costs.
• Maintain the virtualization message – do I seem harsh when I comment that I want everything either virtualized, in grid, Citrix or web based? We need to continue to evolve the platform, make what services we can offer more dynamic, easier to support and add capacity to meet the business need.

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