Andy Bailey is Availability Architect at Stratus Technologies. Based in the UK, he works with customers to help them meet their business continuity and application availability requirements. He has over 15 years of proven experience specializing in industry standard architectures and solution design. His current expertise focuses on the business continuity market, virtualization, and other related technologies. Prior to Stratus, Andy held positions at Compaq/Hewlett Packard for more than 12 years. Previous to that he was at Cap Gemini, Lloyds TSB Bank, and the UK's Science and Engineering Research Council.
Having fended off challenges from Linux for several years now, the RISC-Unix
platform is now under siege on another front - x86 servers. Long dismissed as
workgroup and departmental servers, or as platforms for low-level enterprise
applications, x86 servers are making serious inroads into corporate data
centers. Earlier this year, analyst firms Gartner and IDC issued studies
showing that sales of and revenue from RISC-Unix servers were continuing
their slide against x86 boxes. The Gartner study showed a 28.5 percent
decline in the number of units shipped and a 26.9 percent drop in revenue
from them. The IDC study released in May of this year cited a "perfect storm"
of circumstances, including the recession, the purchase of Sun by Oracle, and
potential hardware upgrades by other vendors inducing delays in purchase
decisions, all leading to the lowest level of spendin... (more)
Andy Bailey is Availability Architect at Stratus Technologies. Based in the UK, he works with customers to help them meet their business continuity and application availability requirements. He has over 15 years of proven experience specializing in industry standard architectures and solution design. His current expertise focuses on the business continuity market, virtualization, and other related technologies. Prior to Stratus, Andy held positions at Compaq/Hewlett Packard for more than 12 years. Previous to that he was at Cap Gemini, Lloyds TSB Bank, and the UK's Science and Engineering Research Council.
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