Talking about grid and cloud
Is vCloud the answer to “Does IT Matter”
Whilst I was in the USA for VMworld I purchased all of the books I had added to my Amazon wish list. Shipping costs to Australia are not cheap, compared to within the states anyways.
One of the books I had on the list was “Does IT Matter” by Nicholas G. Carr. It is an interesting book which works through the idea of how much actual competitive advantage IT investment brings to a company.
I wonder how long it will be before we see the concept of cloud or grid computing becoming the underlying infrastructure? How long will it take before we switch from the olden days way of provisioning a server and loading the application, to provisioing a virtual machine and loading the application; to loading the application and allocating resource, disk, cpu and memory. As we take this to the next level, could we see a move of the web infrastructure from a per business unit, per application or per web server basis, to a web farm that scales with the demand. To an infrastructure that we can scale up and down? As more of the applications move to grid, web or Citrix type applications, how do we charge for workload, how do we manage the need to provide service with the business’ willingness to pay. Will this mean a shift from everything being 24/7 or 24/5 to being available, but scaled up as demand requires it?
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Yes, outsourcing can bring challenges to us, especially for the owners. Even before there are lots of challenges in outsourcing. 
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I always use `hponcfg -g` from the commandline of the Linux server. 
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If you have problems, email me and I'll send you a few config scripts.