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Sun’s commitment to open designs on the company’s new unified storage platform is already paying dividends. STEC announced this week that it will support the Sun Storage 7000 family with its ZeusIOP... More >
It’s long been known that rampant server virtualization places an enormous burden on physical I/O infrastructures. Until recently, though, there was no way to determine exactly how data center networ... More >
Call it The Battle of the Ethernet Studies. Barely a week after one study predicts the coming end of the Ethernet era in data center communications, we have another one saying Ethernet will take ov... More >
A lot of people are predicting 2009 will be the year for solid-state disks in the enterprise. One thing is certain, there will certainly be many different types available. Development of enter... More >
I don’t delve into peripherals too much in this blog, but this piece on CIO.com caught my eye. The premise is that advanced forms of user interfaces on everything from mobile devices to la... More >
Say what you will about the relative merits of blade architectures, but the platform certainly has been a boon to Infiniband now that more and more HPC outfits are looking at clustered server solutio... More >
It's starting to look like the good old days again for the CPU industry. AMD's recent launch of the Shanghai device and Intel's counter with the Nehalem processor are certainly reminiscent of the ear... More >
To a company like Alcatel-Lucent, data networking is just one simple layer in the new unified communications universe. But it’s important enough to play a major role in the company’s plan to woo the ... More >
Ethernet may dominate current data-networking environments, but that dominance will start to slip as the world moves into multi-gigabit regimes, according to a new study. The report, " 40 and... More >
What’s old is now new and what’s new is… -- well, I don’t remember how the rest goes, but the first part of the saying is very appropriate to direct-attached storage these days. It seems that ... More >
Once a new technology takes hold in the IT industry, it's never long before the call for standards arises. Such is the case with solid-state disks. While not a new technology, there is a conce... More >
If you're like most enterprises, you're either investing or seriously considering investing in virtualization to consolidate your resources. At the same time, you're also looking to spread your work ... More >
If you've invested the big bucks in a high-performance computing environment, the last thing you need is unexpected problems in your interconnect fabric. Endace Ltd. is looking to capitalize o... More >
Data migration in virtual environments has always been a thorn in the side of those pushing the virtual model as the future of the data center. Once the virtual layer has broken the link between hard... More >
Lenovo has apparently come up with a new kind of PC architecture one that's not quite a full workstation, not quite a thin client, but something in between. Called the Secure Management Clien... More >
Sometimes this blog is about issues and trends sweeping the data center industry, and sometimes it's about stuff. This is one about stuff, particularly 10 Gigabit Ethernet stuff, which is just about ... More >
Last week I touched on the subject of integrating virtual and cloud environments. It turns out I wasn't the only one thinking along those lines. CA Inc. announced this week an integrated manag... More >
I've written before about long-haul Infiniband networks. Now it seems the movement is about to kick into high gear, literally. Obsidian Strategics and ADVA Optical Networking have developed a ... More >
Mixed SAS/SATA environments will soon have access to the latest, fastest networking technology for high-data environments. ATTO Technology took a step in this direction this week, releasing th... More >
So just how bad will things get for hardware manufacturers? Pretty bad, according to the latest research, but not quite as bad as the tech bust in 2001. And by 2012, things should be approaching norm... More >
High-performance computing requires high-performance storage, so a company called iQstor Networks is looking to fill the bill. The company has announced it will unveil its iQ5200 array at Su... More >
Amid all the talk of clouds and virtualization, it's easy to forget that tried-and-true technologies can still be the source of significant breakthroughs. Such is the case with Cisco's new Aggregati... More >
What if you could have all the operational benefits of an external cloud service without worrying about security, compliance and loss of control. That's pretty much what Cassatt Corp. is offering wit... More >
Virtualization and cloud computing are the two major trends sweeping the IT industry today. So it's surprising that few people are exploring how these two technologies will work together. To b... More >
All right folks. This is it -- the day cloud computing evolved from an architectural strategy based on an amalgam of different technologies to a full-fledged, deployable product that's ready to go at... More >
You gotta hand it to Sun -- it doesn't sit still for very long. The company has made another stab at the storage market this week, unveiling a new open storage appliance nicknamed Amber Road b... More >
The combination of high energy costs and the threat of burgeoning desktop virtualization/thin-client architectures is apparently enough to kick-start low-power development efforts among leading deskt... More >
Small, fast and extremely scalable. That's an apt description for the new Flash Module on Violin Memory's 1010 Memory Appliance . The company has basically done away with the hard drive form ... More >
Will 2009 be the year that Apple finally gets serious about the enterprise? And will enterprise users embrace the company along with, or instead of, their Windows platforms? And can anyone believe an... More >
Parallel processing offers a clear advantage over serial processing when it comes to network throughput. But what happens when you get to storage? This article in Byte & Switch lays out... More >
Reviewers are impressed with the first tests of the Core i7 CPUs from Intel (formerly the Nehelem processors), with early reports saying the chips lay waste to previous benchmarks. In fact, ... More >
For some, the troubled economy is a time to hunker down and do their best to stay afloat until the good times return. Others see it as an opportunity. Put the WAN optimization crowd in the lat... More >
Can a single storage platform maintain 1 million IOPS for any length of time? Apparently so. Third I/O is claiming a sustained data rate of 1.1 million IOPS using its Iris Storage Platform. ... More >
It seems that the IT industry is finally catching on to the challenges of managing virtual environments, so much so that issues like visibility and managing virtual sprawl are starting to show up in ... More >
HP-UX and AIX users have a new clustered storage option at their disposal. Sybase Inc. has announced availability of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition for both platforms, a move ... More >
If iSCSI has gained a reputation as the poor enterprise's storage networking protocol, then it should also get points for emerging as an extremely flexible and versatile solution as well. The ... More >
With all the attention in enterprise storage going to solid state disks at the moment, little notice is being taken of another major shift in technology: the rise of the 2.5-inch hard disk format as ... More >
Fibre Channel and Ethernet may be battling it out over 8 and 10 Gbps solutions, but Infiniband is ready to deliver more than four times that throughput for data centers that can afford it. Vol... More >
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