Jump into discussions about the data center of today...and tomorrow. This page is a launching point into several blogs from some of the people working on the front lines at Cassatt. Take a look:

Would you buy an Amazon EC2 appliance?

Before you scream "a what?" I'm only posing this as a thought experiment...

But the concept was recently put forth as an illustration at last week's SDForum ...   Read Blog »

Posted in Fountainhead | 6 October 2008, 1:41 pm

Demand-based policies

This past May Cassatt announced availability of demand-based policies, which monitor the changing demand on servers and automatically turn them off when they become idle. The technical publications team is pleased to follow up with the details: what exactly do these policies do, and how do you con...   Read Blog »

Posted in Info Central What's New Blog | 4 August 2008, 2:57 pm

Learning 21st century computing from 18th century banking

The course of introducing utility computing into the marketplace is almost more of an exercise in social anthropology than in the creation of technology. Consider the data center and its practices, in many organizations the operations are clear descendants of an era in which the computer was a rare ...   Read Blog »

Posted in Rob Gingell's Blog | 11 August 2006, 5:53 pm

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