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July 3, 2009

Storage Firms Turning to ZFS

What started out as a new type of virtual storage system for Solaris users has morphed into a powerful tool that is helping small storage firms wedge themselves into markets dominated by the major pl... More >

July 2, 2009

Next-Gen IOV Getting Ready for the Cloud

Right from the start, it was obvious to everyone involved in virtualization that multiple machines on a single server were going to wreak havoc on the I/O infrastructure. It's the equivalent of strip... More >

July 1, 2009

Less Power to the PC

The EPA issued its new Energy Star ratings for PCs and peripherals this week, but the question remains whether enterprises will respond to the new system or look elsewhere to lower their energy bills... More >

5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support

This white paper outlines best practices for providing support to smartphones including centralizing your helpdesk services for all devices and making support as simple as possible for both IT and end-users.

How IT Can Enforce the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Mandate

This white paper provides an overview of the FDCC mandate, the challenges associated with implementation and maintaining compliance, and recommended solutions.

June 30, 2009

Optical Fiber Preps for High-Bandwidth Data Center

When it comes to enhancing the network capabilities of the data center, most of the attention goes to hardware like HBAs and NICs, or advanced protocols like 10 GbE and Fibre Channel. But there is a ... More >

June 29, 2009

Putting Storage on the Private Cloud

Storage has emerged as one of the primary applications for public cloud services, so it should come as no surprise that it has become the target of an increasing number of private cloud platforms as ... More >

June 26, 2009

New Approaches to Virtual Management

Despite initial hype that virtualization relieves the management burden of physical systems, it wasn't long before everyone realized that it introduced a whole new set of management challenges -- exc... More >

June 25, 2009

Ethernet, Fibre Channel, It's All Good

For many years, the prevailing wisdom behind storage networking was that you had a choice between Ethernet and Fibre Channel . Then, along came the converged networking adapter (CNA) and Fibre Cha... More >

June 24, 2009

Storage Consolidation for the Masses

Unified storage, storage consolidation, whatever you want to call it, is certainly on the radar these days as enterprises look to cut costs any way they can. And while at one time the prospect of joi... More >

June 23, 2009

Boosting the Fortunes for HPC

It's a fairly well-known secret in server circles that while most of the market is seeing hard times, the high-end side is proving to be rather resistant to economic turmoil. That's not to say that t... More >

June 22, 2009

Meet the New Cloud, Same as the Old IT

With each new round of cloud computing platform releases, there is a sense that the IT industry is heading further into uncharted territory -- one which may spell the end for any number of long-time ... More >

June 19, 2009

The Never-Ending Rise of VDI

Another round of virtual desktop technology, another round of predictions calling for the end of traditional desktop infrastructure in the enterprise. The thing is, one of these days the VDI backers ... More >

June 18, 2009

PCIe Rides the SSD into the Enterprise

SSDs hold as their claim to fame faster throughput in high-traffic environments, such as Web servers and database platforms. So it's no surprise, then, that many of the newest enterprise designs are ... More >

June 17, 2009

Virtualization and the New Data Center

Two new developments on the virtualization front came out this week, indicating that the technology is entering a more established phase as it becomes a common element in the data center but is still... More >

June 16, 2009

HP, Cisco Ready to Rumble

Is Cisco Systems' dominance of the enterprise networking market about to see its first true test in more than a decade? It seems likely now that Hewlett Packard, IBM and others are turning to rival s... More >

June 15, 2009

SSDs and the Need for Better Data Management

So much attention has been given to the speed and performance improvements of SSDs over hard disks that it's easy to forget one central fact: Individual disks are merely components in an organic, hol... More >