Peter's Technology Trumpet

Trends of consolidation can be seen in the migration of servers to fewer, larger more automated datacenter locations, and also in consolidation of the units within those datacenters. With the availability of advanced management tools and virtualisation Read More...

The consolidation of Virtualisation vendors continues with Microsoft's annoucement of the acquisition of Kidaro . This follows Microsoft's acquisition of Calista Technologies, Citrix acquisition of XenSource and VMWare's acquisition of Thinstall . Kidaro's Read More...

Internet Villages International announced that they will constructing datacentres on their 140 acre site in Lockerbie. The announcement of the creation of more datacentre space is hardly newsworthy, but there are a few unusual aspects to this project: Read More...

At the age of 24 I rode my bike across the 6.5km Columbia River bridge between Oregon and Washington state. Big river, big bridge. I remember thinking it would make a damn :-) good power plant. Upriver, past Portland and in the shadow of Mount Hood, I Read More...

Virtualised hardware technologies represent a fundamental shift in the way customers plan and deliver Windows server infrastructure. In the past 6 months, the majority of infrastructure projects I am aware of have included Microsoft Virtual Server or Read More...

Living and working in Scotland we are privileged to have such wonderful countryside on our doorstep. As Mrs. Ferry usually annexes our car for short trips to "ladies who lunch" dates, I often find myself on public transport. This is no great hardship, Read More...