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An interesting article here on NewsFactor.com for those of you looking to run fiber deeper into your enterprise network. The rise of bend-optimized fiber (BOF) originally came about as carri... More >
The question of how great a role solid-state disks (SSDs) will play in the enterprise is taking on a sense of urgency as reports of the technology's expanding capabilities go hand-in-hand with growin... More >
The desire for a truly personalized virtual desktop is drawing new names into the market, touting a wide variety of management and customization solutions that recreate the look and feel of a traditi... More >
How long will it be before we see some commonality among blade networking architectures? Quite a while, judging by the number of proprietary technologies kicking around. Blade servers have pro... More >
Enterprise networking firm NextIO is pushing its PCI Express-based approach to I/O virtualization to the next level with a new platform that promises to connect virtually all data center elements u... More >
How do you know when it's time to build a formal data archive? According to recent data, most enterprises are already long past due. An interesting series of blogs from archive vendor Permabit... More >
How typical that right after I do a roundup on the state of application virtualization technology, a major new system hits the market. Citrix this week unveiled a substantial update to its ... More >
Hosted cloud services like Amazon's EC2 continue to garner most of the headlines, but the prospect of internal cloud architectures -- those located behind the firewall -- is gaining credence as the n... More >
Cutting energy costs in the data center isn't just good PR anymore, it's becoming a business necessity. And even though late summer typically sees a drop in fuel costs before cold weather sparks rene... More >
Enterprises will soon have access to carrier-class WAN optimization technology in small form-factor designs suitable for data centers and branch offices. Ipanema Technologies has installed the Auton... More >
The use of commodity network devices could both improve data center performance and lower costs, according to a group of computer science professors at UC San Diego. In a paper submitted to t... More >
Application virtualization is widely seen as the next step beyond the virtual desktop. But be careful. The technology is still very new and may not work equally well with all apps or in all environme... More >
With all the attention on Intel's Larrabee and Nehalem processors, few have noticed that the company is rolling out a six-core Xeon said to open up new possibilities for server applications. &nbs... More >
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is finally entering commercial introduction after nearly a two-year ratification process. So why are doubts about the efficacy of the technology being voiced now by... More >
Gennum Corp. is looking to extend the PCI bus to network storage and server applications with a new repeater system capable of operating over 50-foot cable spans. The company showcased the GN... More >
Whoever said it was a crazy, mixed-up world must have had foreknowledge of virtualization technology . Who knew that just a few short years after its invasion of the enterprise server market that vi... More >
Intel has finally decided to throw its hat into the solid state ring, announcing at its developer's conference this week that it plans a series of Flash drives within the next year. The comp... More >
All eyes are turning toward the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, so what better time for AMD to introduce a major upgrade to the HyperTransport interconnect? It is, after all,... More >
Word on the street is that Western Digital is working on a 20k rpm addition to its Raptor line of hard drives , apparently as a way to steal some of the thunder from the fast-growing solid-state dis... More >
The number and variety of deduplication processes continues to grow, and with it a growing movement to bring the technology out of the back-up realm and into primary storage arrays. But is this reall... More >
JBOD technology (Just a Bunch Of Disks) isn't likely to be left behind in the race to high-speed fabric architectures. The newest systems are tapping into advanced Ethernet and Fibre Channel formats ... More >
Some people are wondering what's going on over at IBM with the launch of the new block-based XIV storage system. In fact, if alert bloggers hadn't picked up on the few discretely posted Web pages a... More >
10 GbE is well on the way to becoming a mainstream technology, according to the latest research, and the growing prevalence of new, lower-cost solutions that take advantage of existing copper infrast... More >
Rackable Systems has announced that it is looking to sell off its RapidScale line of clustered storage systems and I/O connectivity products as a means of finding "strategic alternatives" for the u... More >
AMD is facing one of the most crucial decisions of its brief but storied history. The company is pondering a split of its main business units amid a management reshuffling and a chip industry hurtlin... More >
An interesting article on Enterprise Storage Forum describes the upcoming Parallel Network File System (pNFS) 4.1 aimed at boosting the performance of parallel storage systems in the age of multico... More >
Virtual Iron is taking the concept of load balancing a step further, offering an automated management system that consolidates virtual machines onto as few servers as possible and then shuts down the... More >
One of the more overlooked aspects of high-speed network fabrics is that even with throughputs of 8 Gbps, 10 Gbps and beyond, your speed is still limited by the I/O capability of your storage media. ... More >
New enabling technologies are rapidly pushing the multi-protocol device market for a wide range of communications devices, both inside and outside the data center. Vitesse Semiconductor recent... More >
We've been reporting on the resurgence of the mainframe for some time now, driven primarily by IBM's commitment to the platform despite its size and cost in the age of clustered servers and blade tec... More >
Could the traditional application server soon be a thing of the past? A company called Pivot3 has just released the Serverless Computing system, which uses a series of x86-based network storag... More >
Consolidating servers to save energy in the data center is well under way in many enterprises. Now, attention is turning toward greening up the storage array, which poses much more of a challenge. &n... More >
Micron Technology unveiled a new set of solid-state disk drives (SSDs) intended to boost capacity and performance while cutting power consumption for both servers and clients. The enterprise-... More >
Looking back, Oracle has been rather quiet over the past few months as far as the data center is concerned. But that came to an end this week as the company unveiled a series of new initiatives aimed... More >
Juniper Networks may be new to the enterprise market, but it's quickly learning that you can't make inroads based on technology alone. You need partners. That's apparently why the company is l... More >
You can always tell when a technology is about to go mainstream; the cutting edge starts to blur the lines with competing or related technologies. PCs become multimedia devices. Cell phones become ..... More >
Does it even make sense to talk about "high-end" and "mid-range" storage anymore? EMC, at least, seems intent on blurring those lines, adding a host of advanced features to the CLARiiON CX4 ... More >
This is probably difficult to hear for those of you who are just getting your feet wet with 10 GbE, but that technology is already on the verge of losing its cutting-edge status in favor of even wide... More >
Some of you might not think that this week's unveiling of Intel's Larrabee graphics processor architecture has anything to do with last week's post on parallel processing. But it does. In fa... More >
Open-source software firm Vyatta has come out with a new appliance containing its Linux-based router/firewall system with an eye toward taking on Cisco, Juniper and others in the enterprise networkin... More >
Verari Systems has bumped up the throughput of its BladeRack platform by tapping 10 GbE technology from Chelsio Communications. Verari has added the CX4 PCI Express Storage Accelerator to th... More >
Virtualization, cloud computing and other headline-grabbing developments are set to vastly remake the enterprise in the next few years. But there is one technology that trumps them all, although it h... More >
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