3Leaf Systems, the four-year-old start-up that has raised $32.5 million in funding - some of it from Intel - is promising - once it gets all its ducks in a row - to virtualize the whole x86 data center infrastructure - memory, CPU and I/O. Such a feat, it says, has never been done before and is 'truly disruptive.' It's supposed to wring mainframe-class availability, scalability and resiliency from commodity servers, saving the world from wasting something like $140 billion on unused server resources, a factor of currently normal over-provisioning. (You know how those x86 rascals only run at 10%-15% utilization.)
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
