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My perspective on IBM is skewed by the fact that my entry into the computer industry was in a bygone era when IBM was in a very different position than it is today. My first job was in 1969, earning $1.65 an hour as a “Programmer/Operator” in the California State Polytchnic College Data Center in Pomona, CA. Our “Data Center” consisted of an IBM 1130 computer, a printer, and a card reader/punch, and the computer industry then was pretty much IBM and “the seven dwarfs”. |
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| Posted by Richard Fichera on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 7:35:00 AM |
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| As I noted in an earlier post, the whole area of power and cooling has suddenly become a very hot topic (pun intended, of course). The “why” is pretty straightforward – processing requirements are continually escalating, driving up density, and both the cost of power and the difficulty of removing the generated heat from the data center continue to rise. What is not really obvious is that the problem is several orders of magnitude more complex than most people in the industry realize. |
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| Posted by Richard Fichera on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at 8:47:00 AM |
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I came out in a previous post against blade standards, and nothing has happened in the last couple of weeks to change my mind, but it’s obvious that we need standards, and that they work, so which ones make sense, and why? The answer is that the real standards that have impact are the logical interfaces, the places where information is transferred from one semantic and epistemological domain to another, where completely different set of rules and transforms will be applied. |
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| Posted by Richard Fichera on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 2:36:00 PM |
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I promised not to try and make this blog into a sales pitch for HP, but a recent high-profile firefight between us and IBM both annoyed me and made me think about what’s important to users in evaluating potential systems solutions. HP is currently involved in a high-profile war of words with IBM on the subject of power and cooling. In a nutshell, IBM is claiming that they have better power and cooling characteristics for some unspecified configuration of their blade servers versus our BladeSystem c-Class systems. We disagree. So far no big surprise. |
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| Posted by Richard Fichera on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 4:21:00 PM |
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| Every now and then somebody gets it right. An idea, a product, or a concept done SO right that it becomes an instant icon. When I saw the Coliseum in Rome, I recognized one of those timeless classics. About 2000 years old, it is eerily familiar to anyone who has been to a modern stadium – the same tiered layout, multiple levels of external pedestrian access, and multiple access tunnels. A classic, no changes needed, please. Italy is full of those surprises – boutique shopping malls in Trajan’s Market that would work today with a little cleaning, bars and restaurants in Pompeii that look uncannily contemporary in their layout. |
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| Posted by Richard Fichera on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 3:14:00 PM |
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