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The multitude of revolutionary technologies that has hit the enterprise in the past few years is fueling more and more talk about the next-generation data center. Everything from virtualization and multicore processing to cloud computing and Web 2.0 seems to present a unique opportunity to remake what we do for a living from the ground […]

It makes no sense to put non-crucial or little-used data on your most expensive storage tier. But how many of you actually know what percentage this static data occupies on your primary storage systems?
Apparently, not many, or else there would be a massive industry shift to more effective storage systems.
According to a recent survey of […]

Despite the prospect of losing its dominance in the server virtualization market to Microsoft and Citrix, VMware is pulling no punches when it comes to extending the technology further into the data center.
Following the textbook rule that a good defense is a strong offense, the company is moving quickly to bring desktop virtualization from the […]

The Multicore Association offered a lifeline of sorts to software developers struggling to meet the demands of parallel processing in the form of a new API designed to enhance intercore communications.
The MCAPI was quickly adopted by Freescale and VirtuaLogix as a means to bolster their respective multicore and virtualization products in the eyes of the […]

For those of you who never got too jazzed about concepts like Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Virtual Data Federation (VDF), it looks like those ideas are being repackaged into an all-new data center initiative. And with IT vendors always looking to make the most out of a successful trend, get ready to hear a […]