Archive for August, 2007

VMWare Virtual Desktop Inteface (VDI)

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I’m uncertain if EMC’s Chuck Hollis was explicitly referring to VDI when he posted about thin clients, so it took me some time to grasp the magnitude of the changes ahead implied in his posting. A picture from VMware will help illustrate how VDI works.

So whats the big deal? The user desktops are not deployed [...]

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Data Center Server Reduction Announced by IBM

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

IBM Boulder will participate in the 3,900 server reduction to 30 Z-series mainframes. The announcement also revealed additional glimpses into IBM’s data center efforts. Since 1977, the company has reduced the number of worldwide data centers from 155 to 7 while still currently managing over 8 million square feet of space.
Part of Project Big [...]

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