GLG News by Mainframe Evaluators

1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...

Intel's turned its PR apparatus on high today, trumpeting the launch of its first 45nm processors, code-named Penryn. The company can certainly claim credit as the first CPU vendor to ship 45nm products, but the products it launched now are merely warmed over versions of the mature 65nm designs it introduced...

VmWare must grow via the channel. VmWare must support their current customers. VmWare must continue to innovate to stay ahead of the competition.

SOA can be very useful if done correctly. SOA will be subjective. Vendor by Vendor SOA must be tied to policy.

Sun Solaris 10 containers and LDOMS offer similar capabilities in the UNIX space. No other UNIX provider owns the chip the way Sun does SPARC. Virtualization may be a crowded space soon.

Sun has a viable alternative to IBM, Oracle, BEA, and JBoss. Sun's position in the market is unclear. SOA may slow sales of product for everyone.

Virtualization is beginning to move beyond consolidation. Virtualization introduces security and data management issues. Virtualization has no real standards at this time.

Standard architecures will avoid common pitfalls when introducing virtualization technology Broad use of virtualization in production environments is not here yet. Virtualization as a whole is in it's infancy, thus future security and management needs are not yet understood.

ILM has been so misunderstood it may actually have done more harm than good.Is virtualization a long term strategy for containment or just a pause.Who will be the largest consumers of storage going forward.

Security solutions to enhance OS's must keep up with and acknowledge both enhancements to OS's and the elimination of them at the desktop.Security intelligence must be flexible and open.Where does the "Veritas" side of the house play?