SysAdmin Talk

There’s a mystery about early Exchange 2010 deployments:  despite the much-publicized removal of single instance storage, sizes of Exchange 2010 databases have not increased. The same message has trickling back from all quarters, as businesses go live:  after moving mailboxes, database sizes in Exchange 2010 are roughly the same as they were in Exchange 2007.

I admit that I’ve been a bit hypersensitive to trends that tend to disperse central IT departments (Exhibit A and Exhibit B on this blog). As a result I was a little surprised to see this press release from Riverbed Technologies. The title “Riverbed Survey Shows Businesses Are Rapidly Moving Toward IT Consolidation”, knocked me back for a moment.