Pete Manca is CTO and EVP of Engineering, Egenera. He brings over 20 years' experience in enterprise computing to Egenera. His expertise spans a wide range of critical enterprise data center technologies including virtualization, operating systems, large-scale architectures and open standards. In particular, his leadership and experience in virtualization technologies has led to the continued progression of Egenera's advanced PAN (Processing Area Network) architecture. Manca leads product planning by working directly with customers to understand their most difficult challenges and guide Egenera's architecture, hardware and software engineering teams to translate those requirements into solutions. Prior to Egenera, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Hitachi Computer Products America with responsibility for operating systems and enterprise middleware products.
2007 was a breakout year for virtualization, as it finally hit the mainstream. But where do we go from here? The virtualization 'wave' is just forming. And while server virtualization is at full crest, there are many more waves behind this that are taking shape and quite frankly, are m...
That wise prophet Kermit once said, 'It's not easy being green.' Actually, it is, but you wouldn't get that impression based on some of the 'green solutions' we're seeing in the market. Isn't the easiest way to reduce power and cooling to remove those things that create demand for powe...
Is 'Virtualization 2.0' just a catchphrase? Is it a new term that analysts can cling to? Is it a re-hash of technology from 20 years ago? Is it new? Is this really new technology that will have a material impact on how data centers are managed? If not, then it's just another marketing ...
Recently I talked about what I see as the next 'waves of virtualization' taking the industry, I talked about I/O Virtualization as a key (maybe THE key) cornerstone, so I thought it might make sense to describe just what it is and why it's important. Like all forms of virtualization, t...
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Pete Manca is CTO and EVP of Engineering, Egenera. He brings over 20 years' experience in enterprise computing to Egenera. His expertise spans a wide range of critical enterprise data center technologies including virtualization, operating systems, large-scale architectures and open standards. In particular, his leadership and experience in virtualization technologies has led to the continued progression of Egenera's advanced PAN (Processing Area Network) architecture. Manca leads product planning by working directly with customers to understand their most difficult challenges and guide Egenera's architecture, hardware and software engineering teams to translate those requirements into solutions. Prior to Egenera, he served as Vice President of Engineering at Hitachi Computer Products America with responsibility for operating systems and enterprise middleware products. 
2007 was a breakout year for virtualization, as it finally hit the mainstream. But where do we go from here? The virtualization 'wave' is just forming. And while server virtualization is at full crest, there are many more waves behind this that are taking shape and quite frankly, are m...
That wise prophet Kermit once said, 'It's not easy being green.' Actually, it is, but you wouldn't get that impression based on some of the 'green solutions' we're seeing in the market. Isn't the easiest way to reduce power and cooling to remove those things that create demand for powe...
Recently I talked about what I see as the next 'waves of virtualization' taking the industry, I talked about I/O Virtualization as a key (maybe THE key) cornerstone, so I thought it might make sense to describe just what it is and why it's important. Like all forms of virtualization, t...
