PC Blade Daily Links 2007-01-12

[Daily Post from ClearCube] PC Blade Daily: The Cube Diver and the Crash Cart

“Desktop support specialists’ time would be better spent finding new solutions to common user problems … Instead they’re stuck behind their crash carts, unplugging dead computers and plugging in new ones.”

CIOL.com: Indian IT Market on Upward Spiral

“The year will witness Indian enterprises graduate to the second level of Dynamic IT infrastructure – where IT infrastructure can effect changes fast in response to the changing business scenario. The key technology components to attain this state are virtualization, SOA and application integration.” (via TarryBlogging)

CIO Blogs: Virtualization May Redefine the Software Industry

“Applications have historically been deployed on a one-application-per-server basis. … Virtualization enables IT managers to provision their servers much more flexibly, achieving utilization rates of as high as 80%.” (via Virtualization Daily)

Byte and Switch: Storage Gets Scattered

“Dispersed storage describes a method of disassembling data into slices, which are then compressed, encrypted, and stored across multiple computers, disk arrays, or workstations. Only specialized client software can retrieve the data, and it can do so using fragments.”

“So popular are blades becoming that, according to Doug Balog, VP of IBM BladeCenters and chairman of Blade.org, 141 of the world’s top 500 supercomputers now use blades.”