Data center and networking architecture to keep your data safe and moving
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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 >
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 >
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 >
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Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and AvailabilityThis 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.
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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