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November 20, 2009

The Hot-Swappable Data Center?

Resource consolidation, whether it is server, storage or networking, is usually viewed in terms of hardware acquisition costs and operational expenses like power and cooling. But the ability to do mo... More >

November 19, 2009

Fibre Channel for the Masses?

Isn't it interesting how the ever-shifting sands of technological development can turn long-held assumptions on their heads? Take the case of Fibre Channel. For years it was the gold standard of stor... More >

November 18, 2009

Blade Densities on the Rise Again

How dense can they get? I'm talking about blade servers, the latest of which have significantly upped the ante in terms of packing as much processing power in as little space as possible. Super Micro... More >

Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience

This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

November 17, 2009

IBM Draws Networking Strength

HP has networking in-house. Cisco started out with networking and now has its own server line. So if you're IBM at a time when fully integrated data center platforms are all the rage and you've stack... More >

November 16, 2009

First Stop on the Cloud: Backup and Recovery

The implications of cloud computing on the data center are certainly huge, but to be realistic, many of the more esoteric applications are still a few years out. Most enterprises will tread very care... More >

November 13, 2009

$1.25 Billion Later, It's Back to Business for AMD and Intel

Now that all the ramifications of the recent HP-3Com deal have been thoroughly hashed out, it's time to take a look at the other major event of the past week. I'm talking about Intel's decision to... More >

November 12, 2009

HP and 3Com: It's All About the Core

It's hard to look at a deal the like Hewlett-Packard's $2.7 billion buyout of 3Com outside the lens of the major corporate-industrial machinations that are driving the data center sector right now. A... More >

November 11, 2009

Managing VDI Network Traffic

Desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI) is poised to make a big push into the data center in the coming year, and by all accounts the top vendors have bent over backward to ensure their platforms... More >

November 10, 2009

New Power Management Systems at the Ready

Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technolo... More >

November 9, 2009

Serving up Advanced Architectures

Amid all the earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting developments surrounding virtualization, the cloud and network convergence, it's easy to forget that there are many more practical matters in the data... More >

November 6, 2009

Big or Small? Contrasting Approaches to the Cloud

Does the cloud lend itself to a major all-in-one platform, or should enterprises pursue a piecemeal approach, at least for the moment? It should be no surprise that the major platform vendors like C... More >

November 5, 2009

New Life in Hard-Disk Drives

It was obvious from the beginning that even though solid-state drives (SSDs) were gearing up for a major push into the enterprise, it hardly meant hard disks (HDDs) were going the way of the dinosa... More >

November 4, 2009

On the Road to the Dynamic Data Center

Your enterprise may be virtual, consolidated, even cloud-ready, but is it dynamic? If you take a close look at the major technology announcements lately, the overriding goal is to provide a flexible ... More >

November 3, 2009

The Rise of Commodity Data Centers?

Commodity servers, commodity storage, even commodity networking gear -- is the next step going to be commodity data centers? That looks like the direction we're heading based on the latest technology... More >

November 2, 2009

Blurring the Line Between Public and Private Clouds

If a private cloud is nevertheless hosted on a public service, is it still a private cloud? It may seem like a dumb question considering the very definition of a private cloud is that it is hosted on... More >

Responding to Change

The technology tips and tools to enhance your ability to respond to business change with ease and success.

Tape Storage

Disaster recovery and business continuation that includes encryption, all at a manageable TCO.

Application Grid

Learn more about this middleware layer that pools and dynamically provisions infrastruction application delivery resources to lower costs and improve efficiency.

Decision Management

Applications, management tools and industry advice on how to optimize your data for better business decisions.