RedMonk Analyst James Governor, who has had one ear to the IBM space and another to the burgeoning SOA/Enterprise 2.0 space for some time now, recently reflected on the changing role of CICS, once the standard middleware for mainframes. (Around before middleware was even called middleware.) James wonders whether IBM’s pitch to abstract CICS functions [...]

“This is the era of extreme integration… We’re not too far away from seeing a million-server data center.” This prediction by Kirk Skaugen, vice president and co-general manager at Intel Corporation, was part of an experts’ panel at the recent Windows 2008 launch, hosted by Al Gillen, vice president at IDC. (Archived video available here [...]

Microsoft, when it’s not tweaking operating systems, releasing security patches, or dissing open source, has another project it’s bringing to the fore: it’s first data center in a box. (Uh, sorry, I meant “containerized datacenter facility.”) The idea is that these data centers, literally housed in portable shipping containers, can be trucked and parked at [...]