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May 22, 2012

Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud

If, as the saying goes, what is old is new again, what does the future hold for the mainframe? Quite a lot, actually, considering everything we hold dear in virtual environments and the cloud — scala... More >

May 21, 2012

Managing Your Way Out of the Silo

It's probably nice to think of the coming virtual/cloud era as the end of duplication, inefficiency and performance bottlenecks. And maybe someday that will be the reality for many organizations, but... More >

May 18, 2012

Rethinking IT for the Cloud Era

It seems that the private vs. public cloud debate has gone the way of PC vs. Mac or Ginger vs. Mary Ann. Recognition is growing that most organizations will utilize a mix of public, private and hybri... More >

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May 16, 2012

VDI: Stepping Out of the PC's Shadow

It's almost universally accepted that virtual desktops will never provide the same user experience as real ones. Of course, that doesn't stop people from trying. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) ... More >

May 15, 2012

Working Through the Immutable Laws of the Cloud

The cloud may be the latest and greatest computing technology to come along, but that doesn't mean it isn't subject to the same laws of logic and nature that govern the rest of the universe. And one ... More >

May 14, 2012

Virtualization Helps Tackle BYOD Challenges

If you don't have a desktop virtualization program under way already, you've probably missed the boat. But that might not be as bad as it seems considering the technology looks set to morph into an e... More >

May 11, 2012

Hardware in a Virtual World

The farther down the road enterprises travel toward virtualization and the cloud, the more it seems that hardware becomes less relevant. It's an easy trap to fall into, considering most of the produc... More >

May 9, 2012

Building up Cloud-based Backup Infrastructure

Enterprises continue to place larger portions of their backup and recovery infrastructure on the cloud. After all, it's cheaper and is said to be more resilient than in-house resources because it can... More >

May 8, 2012

The First Glimpse of 12 Gbps SAS

Enterprises have become highly adept at data acceleration, optimization and numerous other tricks designed to improve throughput over existing infrastructure. But at some point, the need for wider pi... More >

May 7, 2012

Still Striving for IaaS, PaaS in the Cloud

Deciding to move select storage applications and resources to the cloud is a relatively easy decision. Most cloud services can accommodate leading enterprise environments and architectures, essential... More >

May 4, 2012

VMware and the Virtual Desktop

Having all but cornered the server virtualization market over the past decade, many industry watchers have wondered how long VMware would be content to play second fiddle in the virtual desktop space... More >

May 2, 2012

Cloud Bursting Not Ready for Prime Time

It all sounds great on paper: an integrated physical/virtual/cloud environment in which resources are spun up at the drop of a hat allowing enterprises to consume exactly what they need and not a bit... More >

May 1, 2012

MLC Flash Performance on the Rise

When it comes to deploying solid-state storage in the enterprise, the rule of thumb is that multi-level cell (MLC) technology offers high capacity at lower cost but single-level cell (SLC) is faster ... More >

April 30, 2012

The New Data Center Industry

The birth of a new industry is always a heady time, as events are propelled by both the challenges at hand and the possibilities of the future. True, many of those possibilities will turn out to be u... More >

April 27, 2012

There's More Than One Way to Unify Storage

For a concept that is generally met with a high degree of approval, unified storage still manages to generate a fair share of controversy. On the one hand, it's hard to argue against a single storage... More >

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Service-oriented architecture is the catalyst that allows today's companies to respond to business demands faster and more effectively than ever.