Kyle Ohme — In the life of a dot com

Press is rolling on the new site … (http://www.bladeuser.org)Here is an excerpt from the arctle talking about http://www.bladeuser.org

“Blade.org provides an invaluable interchange between users of blade servers and the vendor community,” said Kyle Ohme, Chairman of the Blade.org Customer Advisory Council. “Now that so many companies have deployed blade servers, many blade users have expressed the desire to join in a forum — like those in many other product categories that enjoy strong adoption — in which they can interact with their peers as well as the vendor community. Blade.org is becoming a diverse community where vendors can transform end-users’ needs for workarounds and custom development into off-the-shelf blade server products and specialized data center solutions.”

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I wanted to take a moment and update everyone on a new site I have been working on … http://www.Bladeuser.org

We have been working hard as a Customer Advisory Council to provide a foundation and vision to the road ahead.  We are very excited as end users to be involved with such a powerful and innovative organization.  Its our vision to create an atmosphere that comes full circle merging the vendor and end user relationships.   We feel by providing feedback as a end user we can provide feedback to the vendors working to solve our issues and ultimately make our experiences easier and more productive with the solutions we use daily.  Our goal is to look forward not reinventing the wheel but rather improve and innovate new solutions that better fit the focus of the customer.
When the Customer Advisory Committee was formed over a year ago it was one of our missions to create an atmosphere that welcomes feedback and community involvement.  I am very happy at this time to announce http://www.bladeuser.org as the starting point to this process.

I invite you to check out the site and provide feedback and use the site as it is yours.

http://datacenterjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1502&Itemid=40

Blade.org press release. 

Blade.org continues to grow and prove to be a leader in the space!

“Blade.org provides an invaluable interchange between users of blade servers and the vendor community,” said Kyle Ohme, Chairman of the Blade.org Customer Advisory Council and Director of Information Technology at W3i, a global, interactive media company. “Now that so many companies have deployed blade servers, many blade users have expressed the desire to join in a forum – like those in many other product categories that enjoy strong adoption – in which they can interact with their peers as well as the vendor community. Blade.org is becoming a diverse community where vendors can transform end-users’ needs for workarounds and custom development into off-the-shelf blade server products and specialized data center solutions.”

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Blade.org Customer Advisory Council Announced durring IBM Partner World.

Blade.org last week announces the addition of the Customer Advisory Council.

The PR release is located:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=246453

Blade.org Global Customer Advisory Council members include:
– Asian Art Museum of San Francisco - James Horio, Director of
Information Technology
– Batteries Plus - Josh Moore, Director of IT Operations
– CHA, LLC - William B. Cox, Chief Information Officer
– Countrywide Financial - Karl Kay, IT Office of Architecture,
Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture
– Georgia Institute of Technology - Bartosz Ilkowski, Ph.D., Senior
Research Technologist and Head of Cluster Computing at the Center for the
Study of Systems Biology
– Online Game Services Inc. - James Hursthouse, CEO
– Technicolor - Tom Burns, Director of Post Production Infrastructure
– University of Kentucky - John Tibe, Director, Enterprise Computing &
Communications Systems
– W3i.com - Kyle Ohme, Director of Information Technology
– Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Phil Butcher, Head of Information
Technology
– Zumiez - Kevin Sonney, Technology Systems Manager
– 60East Technologies - Jeffrey Birnbaum, Founder (Former Managing
Director and Chief Technical Architect of Morgan Stanley)

I am looking very forward to this process and what will come of this great group of people.

Stay tuned as we release one of the most complete groups to lead the industry into this exciting new time of blade severs.

Ok, We got it - we have a cooling and power problem with blades trying to utilize older datacenters - can we please move on?

Although I was very happy to be a part of the first annual BladeSystems Insight conference in Ga, I was pummeled with the talk of power and cooling issues all week. I get it, I understand that cooling and power is a big issue with blades and high density computing. What I dont understand is what will talking about it for three days accomplish? I dont build the actual cooling systems and I dont design the actual hardware for my data rooms. Its my job to understand my options and understand what I can do to combat issues now and in the future. Its also my job to do my research, choose a vendor and work with a solution provider to solve my problem. If we heard it once we heardit ten times a day - for the power coming into the rack you create heat and the more compute power the more power it requires thus more cooling is needed. Got it -

My job is to utilize cutting edge technology with industry best practices to solve business issues anddrive value for the company. I do my research to understand what my options are, solve the problem the best we can and move on.

I was really disappointed last week with the fact very few conversations throughout the conference didnt move past cooling and power as was the same in 2006 with Server Blade Summit. In my opinion cooling and power is an enabler allowing us to take advantage of a better computing platforms. Quite frankly I am not the one designing the inner workings of my cooling system hardware. It is my responsibility to understand my growth and computing requirements and to communicate that to my contractor installing along with my vender selling thesolution to assure a proper fit.

Please dont get me wrong, I understand this is a big topic and its an important one. I also understand that itsthe consumer market driving the research and design of the practical application. Many facilities are not designed for high density applications- mine is and I want to move on!

I personally feel better insight into the future would be more valuable.

Conversations like;

What do we do next when we have 10,000 virtual images sitting around because we just made it too easy to deploy?
What are identified best practices with the deployment of servers and security?
How do we make this platform interact with our business models?
How do we create a policy based computing platform that grows and expands based on business needs?
What issues / advantages do blades and virtualization bring to backups and DR?

I want to hear what others are doing with the newly found compute power, process and limitations.

If anyone would like to strike up a conversation on the practical application of blades and virtualization to help make real headway as an industry track me down. If you want to discuss power I will talk to you later Im moving on.

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