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Give Microsoft credit for one thing: When it does something, it rarely goes halfway. Having already prepped the IT industry for its version of virtualization with the Hyper-V system, the company has ... More >
Is the future of enterprise computing to be found in the cloud? That's the conclusion many vendors and service providers have reached, judging by the rapid pace of cloud-based developments so far thi... More >
What's to become of Intel's Itanium processor now that even supercomputer heavyweights like Cray are turning to the Xeon? Cray apparently has its heart set on the upcoming 45 nm Nehelem proce... More >
Nortel is talking up its end-to-end network virtualization system , which the company says delivers on the promise of an end to silos in favor of a dynamic pool of resources that can be tailored to ... More >
Sounds like the easiest thing in the world: Deploy lots of green technology like virtualization and low-power processing and then sit back and bask in fiscal and environmental glory. Too bad n... More >
InformationWeek has an interesting article this week by Charles Babcock highlighting the virtual I/O capabilities of the Hyper-V system . It seems that Microsoft wasn't happy with the standa... More >
Is AMD about to hit a brick wall in dual-core processors? That's the conclusion from this piece in TG Daily regarding the upcoming Puma platform. The site claims to have inside information... More >
In a deal that proves that everyone can benefit from virtualization, Lenovo has adopted the VMware VI3 suite across its server platforms, the vast majority of which are destined for the Chinese mar... More >
What good is a spiffy new server if it doesn't have the network support to help push it to its limits? That was clearly the thinking behind the lightening-fast response of the networking commu... More >
Small form-factor edge routers are getting more powerful and more flexible with a wide variety of capabilities and configurations up for grabs. Foundry Networks recently launched a new line of... More >
The era of general-purpose servers may finally be giving way to more specialized devices, as more and more enterprises find themselves in need of powerful business applications and number-crunching. ... More >
Networking industry forces are starting to coalesce around 10 GbE technology as the basic platform for storage and data connectivity, furthering the likelihood that it will soon become nearly ubiquit... More >
It seems that Teradata has had enough of all the newcomers to the data warehousing market. The company has released a new suite of products catering to both large and small enterprises, all ... More >
Exinda Networks says it is ready to take on the larger WAN optimization players on their own turf with a line of appliances and new firmware that it claims provides equal performance at a lower price... More >
Virtualization technology is already driving a wedge between the operating system and underlying hardware. Now the technology looks to do the same for the OS and the application. Application v... More >
What does the future hold for host bus adapters (HBAs), network interface cards (NICs) and the rest of the hardware devices that make up what we know as the enterprise network infrastructure? In fact... More >
Major software and hardware vendors are starting to work together, hoping to overcome some of the disconnects that arise between the two worlds during times of rapid technological change. SAP ... More >
Even while Intel continues to push the envelope with its CPU designs, the company has been quietly selling off much of its optical technologies . The company is in the process of selling the ... More >
After examining user communities' wish list for the future of IT , I thought it might prove insightful to take a look at what some of the leaders are in the field are saying about their own enterpri... More >
Cloud computing appears to be in that nebulous stage that all new technologies go through as they move from the lab into the public domain: Everybody's talking about it but no one is really sure what... More >
Most of us are used to our servers humming away in the cool, clean data center. But what if you need computing power in an environment that's not so clean? Augmentix has introduced the latest ... More >
Solarflare Communications has launched a pair of silicon solutions aimed at improving switch densities and dual-port server adapters even while they reduce the power these devices draw. The n... More >
Far too often in the trade press, the focus is on the latest technologies or the wheelings and dealings of vendor communities. So this week I thought I'd take a look at the user community -- specific... More >
Server clusters are becoming even more scalable with a spate of new gateway solutions aimed at simplifying the I/O connection process as new hardware is added. Sanbolic Inc. this week released... More >
Is green technology set to become a permanent fixture of the IT industry, or is it just a fad -- and one that's getting ready to " jump the shark ?" Probably a little of both. At the mo... More >
Fibre Channel over Ethernet may still be on the drawing board at the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). But make no mistake about it, along with the HBA manufacturers I mentioned yesterday ,... More >
High-end enterprise technology continues to trickle down to the mid-level market, with appliances emerging as one of the key means of delivery. Fujitsu Computer Systems has released the Etern... More >
Fibre Channel over Ethernet had its coming out party this week at Storage Networking World, with leading networking firms QLogic and Emulex showing the technology in their new lines of largely simila... More >
Even though solid state technology had a low-key presence at Storage Networking World in Orlando this week, expect it to begin playing a larger role in the enterprise in the coming years, provided ve... More >
A few weeks ago, I ran a little blurb about 3Leaf Systems' recent deal with Intel to license the Intel QuickPath interconnect system for its line of appliance-based (soon-to-be silicon-based) virtu... More >
IBM unveiled two new Power System servers featuring the 5 GHz Power6 processor in a bid to raise the bar against Unix rivals HP and Sun. The new Power 575 Hydro-Cluster is an extremely dense... More >
6 Gbps SAS technology is starting to show up at the chip level, ushering in the era of more powerful storage/server combinations using the serial transfer protocol. PMC-Sierra released a new ... More >
A few weeks ago I wrote about the growing urgency for new parallel programming models that will allow applications to truly take advantage of multicore processing, and the slow pace of progress bei... More >
Processor has an interesting analysis here on the comparative costs between iSCSI and Fibre Channel, based largely on a report by Forrester's Andrew Reichman. The upside is that iSCSI is most cert... More >
Virtualization is only just beginning to make its presence known in the enterprise despite its already heavy impact on the server farm. As the technology rolls into the next decade, it will literally... More >
WAN optimization has emerged as one of the more vital, albeit confusing, technologies in the drive to centralize and consolidate everything from servers and storage to entire data centers. Eve... More >
Smaller disk drives usually found in laptops are becoming an increasingly nifty method for enterprises to expand low-cost/low-power storage environments as storage capacities increase and new multi-r... More >
A new generation of intelligent switching systems is making it easier to unite virtual server environments with heterogeneous storage networks, all in the name of uniting once-separated network silos... More >
More and more enterprises are deploying virtual desktop platforms as hardware refresh cycles come due, leading some industry watchers to declare the technology is on the verge of going mainstream. Ho... More >
The bandwidth war continues to escalate in anticipation of a coming spike in the need for high-speed networking to accommodate growing legions of multicore-based virtual server and storage environmen... More >
Like Rocky (or Hillary Clinton), direct-attached storage (DAS) keeps getting up off the mat. Just as SAN and NAS solutions were making their way into even the smallest of networks, a new form of high... More >
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