I have to admit that I had never thought much about Twitter before reading this blog entry. But reading it makes me want to check it out. Which I might do in my spare time… (I wonder what year that might happen 
).
Daily Archives: April 29th, 2008
The Business Value of Twitter | CIO.com blog
Posted in Advanced Web and 'Net
Monster Savings from Virtualization on Sesame Street
Posted in IT Infrastructure
Sesame Workshop expects dramatic results:
- cut spending on hardware and support by over 90%
- reclaim 2 racks in a cramped data center, and
- reduce power consumption by 15 percent.
Monster Savings from Virtualization on Sesame Street
Noah Broadwater, VP of information services for Sesame Workshop , likes using open source virtualization tools for several good reasons—starting with green ones that have nothing to do with Oscar the Grouch.
Broadwater recently faced a budget crunch at the same time he needed new Web servers and was physically running out of room in his data center. His solution: new HP blade servers based on Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise server software, which builds in Xen’s virtualization software (Xen is the leading open source alternative to VMware’s offering.)
…Happy with the results from virtualizing the Web servers, Broadwater planned a substantial virtualization project to make over his other servers, starting with his test and development boxes, beginning about one year ago.