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New breeds of clustered storage solutions are in the final design stages, with possible launch dates before the end of the year. Systems from EMC, IBM and others are part of an evolving cat-and-mouse... More >
One of the biggest questions leading up to the launch of Windows Server 2008 was whether it would get enough networking support from third-party vendors. After all, even if it turns out to be the gre... More >
"Less is more may" be an apt description of the new z10 mainframe introduced by IBM earlier this week. The system has a smaller footprint than an equivalent number of server racks and uses l... More >
D-Link is extending its Green Ethernet line of products with a pair of multi-port Gigabit switches said to reduce power consumption without hampering operational performance. The DGS-1016D 1... More >
Top server and networking vendors are falling over themselves to get in on the new thin version of VMware's ESX server, a trend that should rapidly drive down the cost of virtualization to make it av... More >
Virtual storage is making its way to the mid-market as an ever-expanding roster of systems push down not only the acquisition costs, but those for management and operation as well. HP pushed t... More >
Microsoft is making a concerted effort to ensure that enterprises can extend its server platforms out to the branch office, a strategy that pulls together the latest server and virtualization offerin... More >
In a further sign of the continuing strength of the mainframe, vendors are once again rolling out technologies specifically geared to big iron. The latest example comes from EMC, which this we... More >
It's no secret that the promise of virtualization is limited by the amount of traffic that can be handled by the physical server's host bus adapter (HBA) at any given time. Loading up on virtual part... More >
Some interesting comments here from 3Par's marketing VP Craig Nunes, who claims that SATA arrays are now fully capable of supporting both online data and near-line archiving. In touting the ... More >
EMC Corp. may have been first out of the gate with an enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD), but it looks like the rest of the pack is ready to join the field. The past week has seen a ne... More >
The battle of the blades continues, with four-socket models as the new weapons of choice. Less than two weeks after HP introduced a new Integrity server with an eye toward peeling customers ... More >
Out with the old, in with the new. That seems to be the guiding philosophy at Apple these days as the company makes changes to its enterprise storage offerings. Users of Apple's SAN file syste... More >
Woven Systems is claiming that its 10 GbE fabric technology can deliver speeds equivalent to Double Data Rate (DDR) Infiniband , making it a low-cost option for high-performance computing (HPC) appl... More >
When you're king of the hill, don't be surprised when you start to take shots from the wannabes out there, even the ones that truly are bigger and stronger. That's the situation facing Teradat... More >
Unisys is making a play for a bigger slice of the data center pie, rolling out a set of new servers and services aimed at establishing what it calls "real-time infrastructure" that can be configure... More >
The push is on to bring both storage networking and virtualization to the enterprise masses in what can only be described as the peanut-butter-and-chocolate approach to platform development -- two gr... More >
It's no secret that the cost of energy is one of the biggest drivers of server and storage virtualization. Now it seems that thin client technology is seeing increased demand for the very same reason... More >
An interesting write-up at Informationweek details plans by Cicso, Juniper and others to transform data center intelligence from servers and endpoints to their respective network platforms. ... More >
Sun Microsystems is in the hunt for an Infiniband-based unified fabric platform that would provide an alternative to Ethernet strategies currently under way at Emulex, Cisco and elsewhere, accordin... More >
AMD may have fixed the problems with the Barcelona processor, but there are still questions surrounding its ability to compete in an increasingly tight hardware market and whether it has the chops to... More >
Data migration is a wonderful thing, except when it locks you into a vendors' preferred storage system and jams up your applications or network operations. SGI says it's taken care of both pro... More >
The growing interest in server clustering is leading to renewed demand for Infiniband, particularly for the high data demands that arise from increasingly virtualized environments. And since effectiv... More >
A good write-up here in EE Times on the steps chip manufacturers are taking to improve their 10 GbE products, hopefully with an eye toward enhancing servers' ability to function in converged data... More >
Data backup and archiving systems are growing more diverse by the month, with everything from virtual tape libraries (VTLs) to grid technology being thrown into the mix. The result is that enterprise... More >
Hewlett-Packard released a new Integrity server that delivers such a significant performance boost that you might as well call it big iron in a blade. The Integrity BL870c uses the same form... More >
Fibre Channel over Ethernet may finally be ready to move from the drawing board to the production line now that the industry has agreed to the basic framework for interoperable product development. &... More >
Good news for enterprises looking to unify their SAN connectivity: DataCore Software has come out with a new version of its storage virtualization software that works with both iSCSI and Fibre Channe... More >
As I mentioned last week, Citrix came out with its revamped virtualization platform, a move that the company heralds as the next step toward the "dynamic data center" but others interpret as a bid to... More >
A company out of Santa Clara, Calif., is claiming that its new analog signal integrity IC can deliver up to 1.28 Tbps over copper cabling from a single 1.75-inch rack unit. Quellan Inc. says t... More >
Momentum is gaining behind solid state drive (SSD) technology, with the newest systems making strides in both transfer speed and capacity to the point that they are making a serious run for the enter... More >
Word is trickling out that Citrix is planning a major overhaul of the XenServer line in what would be its first major update since the $500 million acquisition of the system late last year. ... More >
What do you do when there are two competing networking technologies, each of which appeals to a certain market segment that you hope to win? Adopt both of them. That seems to be the prevailin... More >
Emulex kicked the LightPulse line of host bus adapters (HBAs) to 8 Gbps Fibre Channel this week with the introduction of the LPe 12000 series . The system combines the broader throughput of t... More >
Enterprises that are already pushing virtualization past the server farm and into the storage network are quickly realizing the broad impact the technology has on the file data level. The latest swee... More >
New Leopard users have had mostly positive reviews of the OS's Time Machine backup feature, even though it has forced many to undergo significant storage upgrades to keep up with all that archived da... More >
Even though headlines are screaming about 10 GbE as the interconnect of the future, many enterprises are wondering whether a narrower, and less expensive, switch might be a better tool for here and n... More >
All-in-one enterprise fabrics are only part of the story when it comes to IT networking these days. Parallel development efforts are striving to produce similar architectures designed to link the ent... More >
New multicore designs continue to roll off the drawing board even as the call for more parallel-friendly applications grows louder. Technology prognosticators are almost unanimous in the opini... More >
Sun users take note: The QLogic SANbox 9200 Fibre Channel director switch is now available for Sun platforms. The system will be available with Fault Tolerant (FT) and 256-port HyperStack li... More >
Are things starting to look up for AMD? The company had a pretty rough 2007, what with the bug-plagued Barcelona and the ongoing success of Intel's Xeon processors and all. But now it looks like the ... More >
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