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.
Pete Manca's Blog
The virtualization "waves" are 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 more significant.
Server virtualization was about saving money. Allowing multiple applications
to be consolidated onto a single server saves capital and operational
expenses. Reducing the number of servers running in the data center is a good
thing, as it also saves some carbon emissions as well. But is that it? If so,
that’s more like a ripple than a wave. Don’t get me wrong, reducing
power, cooling, server count and consolidating apps is a good thing, but it's
not the whole story. Not by a long shot.
I don’t believe that this is it. In fact, I think we are still in the
beginni... (more)
Pete Manca's Blog
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, the physical world is masked and abstracted
into a virtual representation, allowing for h... (more)
Pete Manca's Blog
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 term that will
fall by the wayside in due time.
Dan Kusnetzky asks an interesting questi... (more)
Pete Manca's Blog
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 power
and cooling? Physical devices are the culprit here. The more we add, the more
power ... (more)
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.
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