Bladewatch.com

So the blog was officially started by me in October 27th 2006.

At the time I was thinking about VMWare on blades, wanting to use DataSynapse and explore the possibiltiies with this grid technology. This was my first post all those 731 days ago.

So what’s on my mind today? The same things but I’ve kind of moved on. I remain interested in VMWare, in DataSynapse (and I’ll always be interested in servers), but I’m now thinking today about:

• Data center power and cooling
• The convergence of application and infrastructure (network/storage and server virtualization – what this means for IT, and the end user
• Data center replication or clustering if you will – by this I mean the data center is the IT, at what point will I fail workloads and applications between data centers – can I automate an application workload failover from New York to London when the power is cheaper, or when the New York data center needs a hardware refresh/scheduled maintenance. The next generation IT where my application is abstracted from the infrastructure, and where it runs, on what platform (to an extent) it runs is an IT thing, where IT service just works. My IT follows the sun, follows my business and does so to my needs budget wise, environmentally or operationally.
• Virtualization – the next step
• Grid computing and where we go with it

I would at this point wish bladewatch.com happy birthday but I best not get emotional.

If you have any comments/recommendations, do email me: martinmacleod@mac.com.

I’m working on the following at the moment:

• Server briefs – more later – I’m thinking of how to do this and publish it
• Virtualization hints guide – PDF downloadable
• Updating the firmware page
• Returning the links to documentation I’ve written
• Introducing Arnold – my recycled Proliant DL380G2 which I ordered from ebay today.

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