Archive for August, 2008

Intel in Good Company in Longmont

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Intel announced it is establishing a presence in Longmont, Colorado joining a who’s who of companies in the area. Of course IBM, just a few miles from Longmont, is one of the earliest and well-known technology giants that have shaped Longmont. Here are a few others:
Chips and Semiconductors

Broadcom Corporation
Fujitsu Computer Products of America
Intelliprop
LSI Storage [...]

Scale Matters

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

While I don’t agree with some of Chuck’s predicted trends in Next Generation Data Centers, this post isn’t about those disagreements. I think it’s important to highlight the value of his observation about Information Technology (IT) at significant scale.
We move data centers of all sizes. The difference in these data centers, regardless of physical size, [...]

Thin Clients Still Not Thin Enough On Your Wallet

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

With the advent of virtualization, particularly VMware’s VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface), much has been written about pairing a thin hardware client with VDI to ease administration and control costs.  This hardware, however, still costs in the range of $300 to $800 per unit. Contrasted to a desktop PC, sometimes there is no savings on the [...]