La branche française de l’équipementier télécoms a été placée en liquidation par le tribunal de Commerce de Versailles. Près de 500 devraient être supprimés si aucun repreneur n’est trouvé.
Qui sera le repreneur ?
Jeudi après-midi, vers 17 heures, plusieurs services de Google dont le fameux moteur de recherche ont été fortement perturbés, voire carrément inaccessibles.
La panne, qui s’est déroulée dans plusieurs pays dont les États-Unis, a duré une heure. Environ 14 % des utilisateurs des services de Google ont ressenti les effets de la panne, a indiqué l’entreprise californienne.
Il semble qu’une erreur dans la gestion du flot de données qui transitent par les serveurs de Google soit à l’origine de la panne. Une bonne partie du flot de données de Google aurait transité dans des serveurs de l’entreprise situés en Asie.
VMware also lost Reza Malekzadeh, its former Sr. Director, Products & Marketing for EMEA.
Among other things, Malekzadeh is the man behind the organization of VMworld Europe 2008 and 2009.
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Citrix also announced the general availability date, June 16, and the recommended price for Essentials: $2,500 per server, regardless of the number of processors.
But the less the most interesting feature has yet to come: a pluggable, open source virtual switch for Xen
This code will be used by 3rd party network vendors to develop virtual switches for XenServer that can compete with the Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere 4.0.
Chris Wolf, Senior Analyst at Burton Group has some juicy details about it on his personal blog:
The virtual switch will be open source and initially compatible with both Xen- and KVM-based hypervisors.
It will provide centralized network management.
It will support advanced network management features such as Netflow, SPAN, RSPAN, and ERSPAN-
It will initially be available as a plug-in to XenCenter.
It will support security features such as ACLs and 802.1x.Un concurrent sérieux pour le Nexus 1000v de Cisco … seul l’avenir nous le dira …
With our Cisco Nexus 1000V beta wrapping up, I had a chance to ping a couple of our customers about their experiences testing the Cisco Nexus 1000V/vSphere combo in their environments. The excerpt is from Julien Mousqueton, who is the Technical Solution Architect for Groupe AGRICA, a European insurance and benefits company—thank you Julien for taking the time to answer questions.
What was your overall impression of the Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch?
My overall impression of the Cisco Nexus 1000V is very positive. It fully integrated with the Cisco architecture that was already in place (CDP). The network team now no longer distinguishes between a virtual machine and a physical server; as such, with the Cisco Nexus 1000V, the network team is given full control of the network. The main impact was the possibility to solve network analysis problems between the various virtual machines. Finally, taking control of the new NXOS operating system was greatly facilitated by our team’s in-depth knowledge of the IOS.
Will the ability to apply network and security policy to specific VMs/applications increase the number and types of applications you move to a VM environment? Why or why not? What other impacts do you see to your server virtualization plans?
The possibility of applying our security policy to virtual machines is real, because we are going to give VLAN network segmentation to the network to partition our development, validation and production environments and make our DMZ secure (dematerialized zones such as our various websites for example) using n-tier architecture. This represents a very meaningful advance in data security.
How easy or difficult was it for your network and server/virtualization admin to implement and access the features of the Cisco Nexus 1000V? Was their any significant training or change in operational procedures required? What do you see as the impact on day-to-day operations when you deploy this in your production environment?
Our network teams liked the Cisco Nexus 1000V immediately, because it integrated with the Cisco architecture that was already in place and required no time to adapt. The transition was even easier when you’re already familiar with the Cisco world; taking control of the Cisco Nexus 1000V was simplified and intuitive.
Based on the functionality delivered by the vSphere + N1KV, will you accelerate your datacenter virtualization plans—do you see a higher percentage of your x86 workloads being virtualized? Why?
The process of virtualization of our datacenter will in fact accelerate. As such we will be able to virtualize our DMZ that previously has relied on physical architectures, and overall we will be able to virtualize everything that has been not possible in the past. We will hence be able to partition environments more easily in order to avoid impacting production environments.
I have a couple more excepts to post in the near future. In the meantime, our engineering elves are putting the finishing touches on the software itself. While you are waiting, head on over to cisco.com/go/nexusnow and sign up for the free 60-day eval license
Posted by Omar Sultan at 09:42AM
Source : Le blog Datacenter de Cisco
Le tableau ci-dessous représente les plus mauvais élèves de l’IT en terme de progression sur le 4ème trimestre 2008.
On voit que la « crise » permet des fusions car les n°1 et 6 de ce « FLOP » 9 ont déjà été rachetés par d’autres compagnies :
Par contre j’ai été surpris des résultats de Verisign, si quelqu’un a une explication je suis preneur.
Cisco vient de publier deux vidéos de l’outil d’administration de son blade : Unified Computing System
Lors de la vidéo de P. Maritz pour le lancement de VMware vSphere, j’avais remarqué un SUNFIRE aux cotés de baies EMC.
J’avais dans un premier temps pensé à un clin d’oeil au rachat de SUN par Oracle mais finalement ce n’en est rien. Chad Sakac sur son blog virtual Geek nous donnes la réponse :
The “old” on the left of the stage is a Sunfire 15K we bought on ebay for $4K (LOL!) – and 500 spindles to represent what it USED to take to run the target Oracle workload. The CLARiiON and 15 Enterprise Flash Drives on the table on the right along with all the other “new” (including Cisco UCS blades) show the modern equivalent that could run the same workload.
Voilà un mystère résolu
Voici le mail d’invitation que j’ai reçu 
