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February 3, 2012

Micro Servers, Maximum Benefits

What began as an oddity is poised to become a major factor in data center infrastructure. If the projections are correct, micro servers will be in great demand going forward as enterprises seek to st... More >

February 1, 2012

PaaS and the Private Cloud

The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate versus private clouds goes something like this: Only the public cloud can provide the scalability to meet burgeoning data environments, so private clou... More >

January 31, 2012

Greater Efficiency Through DCIM

The first wave of data center virtualization and consolidation is largely complete, and as expected it was one of the chief factors allowing the enterprise to keep the lid on infrastructure costs in ... More >

Scale Up with Elastic Caching: How Web Application Performance Directly Impacts Your Bottom Line

Check out this webcast to learn how elastic caching can help your organization achieve significant results, such as reduced memory requirements, better scalability, greater fault tolerance, and improved system response time.

Cloud Computing Payback

This white paper outlines the financial benefits of implementing cloud computing and provides quantitative analysis of the payback.

January 30, 2012

High-Capacity SSDs Pushing to Tier 1 and Beyond

Flash storage has taken a kind of top-down approach when it comes to the enterprise. From the beginning, its chief benefits were transfer speed and lower operating costs, which made it an ideal solut... More >

January 27, 2012

BYOD: Time to Roll with the Changes

Change is difficult. Change is scary. This is why it is usually met with resistance at first. In time, however, what initially seems threatening often emerges as bold and exciting as anticipation of ... More >

January 25, 2012

Cloud Computing: Bridging the Old and the New

Even though most enterprises have attained a significant level of comfort with cloud technologies over the past few years, there are still a lot of unknowns, or at least uncomfortable truths, about t... More >

January 24, 2012

Keeping Disaster Recovery Plans in Tip-Top Shape

Disaster recovery is one of those IT functions that can never be fully completed. No matter how good you think your program is, it can always be made better. And the fact that its worth cannot be pro... More >

January 23, 2012

Intel and InfiniBand: Pure HPC Play, or Is There a Fabric in the Works?

InfiniBand has long suffered from the problem of having to serve two masters at once. On the one hand, it excels at high-end switching environments. On the other, its cost and limited industry suppor... More >

January 20, 2012

Solid-State Storage and PCIe: Fast and Furious for the Enterprise

Of the three pillars that make up data center infrastructure (servers, storage and networking), none face greater change than storage. Aside from the fact that more and more business units are turnin... More >

January 18, 2012

Cloud-based VDI: The End of the Desktop?

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has been trying to get off the ground for some time, and, to be fair, it has met with a certain amount of success. But it's also fair to say that it has failed to... More >

January 17, 2012

Management in Multi-Hypervisor Environments

When it comes to hardware infrastructure, the single-vendor environment is practically unheard of. So it stands to reason that enterprises would be just as willing to adopt the same multi-vendor atti... More >

January 16, 2012

Unified Storage: A Must-Have for the Cloud

Now that the cloud is poised to make major gains in enterprise infrastructure this year, it seems one of the chief beneficiaries will be unified storage. According to analyst Greg Schulz, unified st... More >

January 13, 2012

Cloud Management, Front and Center

For all the talk about the cloud altering information technology in ways never seen before, there is a striking commonality between the enterprise's approach to the cloud and to infrastructure develo... More >

January 12, 2012

Consolidation Still Rules Virtual Strategies

With all the talk about cloud architectures, network convergence and dynamic data infrastructures, it is easy to forget that the basic element fueling all of these developments is virtualization. But... More >

January 11, 2012

Apple vs. Microsoft Redux: A Rematch for the Ages

Isn't it funny how some of the wisest, oldest folk sayings endure even as the world around them changes? I'm reminded of "what is old is new again" and "history always repeats itself" a lot these day... More >