Fertilisation

I was sending an email to someone the other day on my whizzy new blackberry thing. I have to grudgingly admit that they have come on leaps and bounds in recent years. There are still some options missing - especially in Calendar - but at least you can do email, SMS, diary etc whilst on the road and the GPS works too!

The thing that amuses me though is the spellcheck. Yes, there is a spellcheck, so excuses for bad spelling are gone now, I am afraid. People still can't punctuate (and Americans can't spell, as we all know!) but we are getting there. However, its dictionary is a little basic - virtualisation comes out as fertilisation, which I rather like. In fact it made me think of a rather neat analogy.

I talked about the Technology Garden book a while back, where IT is likened to a garden - you need to fertilise some parts, prune others etc. Made me think about most data centres nowadays, which are running hundreds/thousands of underutilised servers - not their fault, the operating systems are just useless at running multiple workloads. Bit like having a garden with hundreds of flower-beds, each one of which has one plant in it. Unfortunately you still have to weed, edge, fertilise etc. each flower-bed, when what you actually wanted in the first place was a herbaceous border.

We have an event next week in London, where we will be looking at how to get to the herbaceous border as quickly, safely and "greenly" as possible. Hope to see you there.

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tags: Virtualisation |  Virtualization