Intel buys McAfee for $7.68Bn!
By Tarry Singh at 19 August, 2010, 7:26 am
Big consolidation wave is always driven by tech companies. Intel just showed that! My prediction, as it stands for Symantec is that Microsoft is going after it. This prediction is holding strong for the last 2 years. Microsoft has to go for adjacent markets and expecially with Cloud offerings becoming more serious and CIOs/CxOs looking [...]
Read More >>Apple’s casual killer move to rout out Intel with A4 and Intrinsity acquisition!
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2010, 11:57 am
Apple has quietly started a revolution without waking the sleeping giant we know as Intel. Soon all the Apple stuff will be sold and as Apple’s iPad going well into the 2015-2020 window we will see a troubled Intel. Same fate awaits firms like Cisco who would be next when the Telepresence and all other [...]
Read More >>Galleon scandal affects tech industry: How does it affect trust and their relationships to enterprise customers?
By Tarry Singh at 1 November, 2009, 12:03 pm
As IBM, Intel and even bigger and trusted firms like McKinsey start to show loopholes, my recent talks to many enterprise customers and C-level folks is more business as usual. They simply don’t care about it saying that “No one is free from greed and there are always casualties” as one CIO put it. However [...]
Read More >>VM Memory: What’s VMware and Intel up to?
By Tarry Singh at 25 September, 2009, 11:39 am
This is truly interesting, especially because the work that I am doing with couple of folks around memory virtualization is taking not only the SIGnatured aspect of you data center from an ecological perspective but also from the ultimate cost-cutter that you may have never imagined! Anyways good to see that VMware is looking into [...]
Read More >>EU exposes Intel’s intentions by pressuring HW vendors to shun AMD!
By Tarry Singh at 21 September, 2009, 11:36 am
The European Commission sees that differently, alleging that the company’s actions ultimately harmed consumers by limiting competition. It said there were “no grounds” for Intel’s allegations of bias and that it had carefully and comprehensively gathered and weighed the evidence: some 3,900 documents from 141 companies, including all major computer manufacturers, the main European computer [...]
Read More >>ARM goes after Intel with its dual-core Cortex A9 MPCores
By Tarry Singh at 17 September, 2009, 2:41 am
Well clearly Intel will really have to find a way to choose between the dwindling enterprise dollars and the ever-increasing personal space where loads of notebooks/netbooks are set to flood the market within the next couple of years. It’s got a cooler strategy and suddenly is tying up with Cloud gods such as Google to [...]
Read More >>Intel’s Wind River and its cross-architecture hypervisor
By Tarry Singh at 16 June, 2009, 12:55 pm
The whole point of the Workbench suite is to insulate application developers from the underlying differences in the embedded chips they pick for whatever gadget they are coming up with while at the same time taking advantage of whatever unique hardware is available for those architectures. That basically left Wind River with one choice when [...]
Read More >>Schooner launches with Memcached and speedy MySQL appliances in the Cloud!
By Tarry Singh at 13 April, 2009, 2:06 pm
Not such a brilliant idea, they have just packed the SSD and Nehalem, which apparently is a bit faster than the rst of the “legacy” chips. There will be more of such start-ups with packed substrate ready gear. I’ll pass, you want to read their papers? Then go here. Today’s highly demanding Web 2.0 and [...]
Read More >>Nehalem: Should we wait for VMware ESX 4.0?
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2009, 1:17 pm
To keep this in perspective, it’s not likely that IT managers will even begin to buy Xeon 5500-based systems in bulk until well after the general release of ESX 4.0. However, as I pointed out in my technical analysis of server virtualization on Xeon 5500 series CPUs, VMware will present the lowest-common-dominator processor in a [...]
Read More >>Performance Evaluation of Intel EPT Hardware Assist (Xeon 5500 series processors)
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2009, 11:51 am
We recently released a whitepaper that demonstrates huge performance gains provided by VMware ESX on the latest Intel Xeon™ 5500-series processors. These processors introduce Intel’s second-generation hardware support for virtualization that incorporates memory management unit (MMU) virtualization called Extended Page Tables™ (EPT). ESX has been adopting these technologies as they are introduced, and many workloads [...]
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