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Despite all the praise and glory that virtualization has received over the past year, the leading vendors of the technology face a rather serious problem as the new year unfolds: application support.... More >
Disaster recovery could see a significant improvement in the coming years as multiple technologies come together to help enterprises get back on their feet more quickly and completely than in the pas... More >
If anything can be said about storage networking technology in 2007, it's that it was the year when the first glimmer of a truce between the iSCSI and Fibre Channel crowds came through. Sure, ... More >
This being the end of the year, it's hard for us in the trade press not to put on our prognosticators' hats and take a crack at what's going to happen in the future, rather than simply what's going o... More >
Since this is the time of year for market data reports, I thought I'd throw another one at you. Infonetics Research is reporting that worldwide sales of WAN optimization appliances increased ... More >
The exponential growth of unstructured data is drawing more converts to file virtualization as a means to not only reduce the load on storage systems but to better manage it for competitive and regul... More >
Energy consumption is likely to be a primary concern for the data center going into the new year, but there is a bright side: Higher costs are leading to a flood of new ideas on how to cut use. ... More >
We've been talking about the impact that virtualization and multicore processing are having on the network infrastructure of the enterprise all week, so it's only right that we take a look at one of ... More >
Ethernet switching is growing more popular, with sales surging 10 percent to $4.6 billion in the third quarter, according to a report from Infonetics. The research firm reports that much of ... More >
Is a common chassis format for blade servers in the works? Word from Europe has it that top vendors, including IBM and HP, are talking about it even though the official line is that no such discussio... More >
If iSCSI was supposed to spell the end of Fibre Channel, someone forget to tell the network storage community. New research from the Dell'Oro Group shows a 30 percent increase in year-on-yea... More >
Multicore technology represents more than just a performance upgrade over single core chips. It's a transformative technology set to alter the underlying structure of enterprise systems, which means ... More >
Web 2.0 applications and high-performance computing clusters are pushing the need for a new generation of networked storage systems that offer not only increased data consolidation capabilities but i... More >
Enterprise search is one of those tools that sounds like a no-brainer at first but actually proves to be quite complicated, on both a technology and admin level. Google gets the lion's share o... More >
Now that virtualization is becoming the rule in data centers rather than the exception, enterprises are turning to an increasingly diverse array of technologies to keep their network traffic flowing ... More >
The virtual tape library (VTL) celebrated its 10th birthday this year and shows no sign of giving up its position as the archival solution of choice for enterprises looking to incorporate faster reco... More >
It seems that every server vendor has their own way of measuring power/performance ratios, usually to the benefit of their own systems. But now, an industry group has established a set of benc... More >
Cisco and Juniper are heading for a battle royale in 2008 as they seek to dominate enterprise data connectivity, both within the datacenter and over the wide area. Both companies are looking t... More >
Sun users could be on the verge of seeing SAN-based storage systems under the Solaris operating system now that a new line of Solaris-friendly host bus adapters is in the pipeline. QLogic anno... More >
Efforts at greening up the data center tend to focus largely on the server farm. And it's true that the vast majority of savings will come from virtualization, consolidation and other measures to red... More >
NetApp continues to make a strong play for the network storage market, with two new solutions aimed at providing near-instant storage for high-end environments. The FAS6000 and V6000 systems... More >
Virtualization system vendors are finally taking the impact their technology is having on the network seriously, responding with novel ways to ensure that multiple virtual servers have equal access t... More >
A North Carolina company is claiming to have developed a new WAN optimization system that delivers "full speed" data transfer for VPNs and application delivery, even over satellite connections. ... More >
With Apple's new Leopard operating system coming out to mostly rave reviews and Vista drawing a lukewarm response at best, many enterprises are seriously considering bringing Macs into their enviro... More >
Installing virtualization software in the enterprise may be one thing, but making sure it does what it's supposed to do and is delivering results as promised is quite another. That's why virtu... More >
Packeteer is laying out its vision of application acceleration, says eWEEK , one that includes a strong dose of network intelligence to smooth the flow of traffic and foster the ability to provide a... More >
SeaChange International has teamed up with FalconStor Software to produce what the companies say is the industry's smallest high-density, high-performance storage solution. The system combine... More >
It used to be that real-time application response was a novelty reserved for motion simulators and specialty data acquisition and processing functions. But with financial services and other business ... More >
New technologies based on the OPC-Unified Architecture format, aimed at linking the enterprise to the factory floor, are making their way to the market. ILS Technology has launched a new vers... More >
Tiered storage is proving to be one of the more effective means to improve network efficiency and reduce costs in the enterprise, particularly when coupled with other advanced technologies like virtu... More >
Data migration tools are a tremendous boon to multi-vendor enterprises, and we can't help but note that they also provide vendors with a way to wedge into what once were proprietary environments. &nb... More >
It looks like earlier fears that the purchase of 3Com by Bain Capital and Chinese firm Huawei might run afoul of U.S. regulators are proving to be correct, but the company is nonetheless putting the ... More >
Broadcom and Cavium Networks are teaming up to develop a new reference design for a line of intelligent switching systems that should enhance network management capabilities for the enterprise. &nbs... More >
You have to hand it to Sun Microsystems for one thing: there's no lack of vision when it comes to the future of the data center. The only question is whether it's a vision that can generate a followi... More >
Attendees at the Gartner conference in Las Vegas this week got new details of Brocade's upcoming Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture, which the company says will kick virtual server and storage f... More >
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