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Further evidence that there is still quite a bit of value in Nortel, particularly in its enterprise division: The company is supposedly working on a new services router that would put applications on... More >
Solid state disk (SSD) technology headed into the new year with a lot of momentum, with backers saying it provides an ideal solution for many high-speed data applications even while the cost makes it... More >
Who stands to gain the most now that the Solaris 10 operating system is being loaded onto HP ProLiant servers? Clearly this is a win not only for Sun users but the vast number of MySQL and Java devel... More >
Will the burgeoning cloud industry provide an application-friendly environment? It may seem like a basic question, but it's one that is still very much up in the air. A few weeks ago, I brought up th... More >
Financial services firms dealing with lost millions due to a few milliseconds of network latency measured should get a rise out of a new high-speed solution that marries ultra-fast data transmission ... More >
As the market leader, VMware can be excused for mounting its own trade show every now and again, although it may start to rethink that strategy considering it tends to draw out the knives from the re... More >
A company called Vertica is taking dead aim at the hardware-based data warehousing market with a new cloud-based virtual appliance it says can get the job done cheaper and more easily. The Vertica A... More >
In my last post, we took a look at the latest in virtualization management technologies: tools and systems designed to keep tabs on how your virtual environment is being used. But that's only part of... More >
The latest upgrade to the EMC Celerra unified storage system offers a heavy dose of deduplication and file compression for recovery purposes, even as it forges new ties to solid state drive (SSD) tec... More >
IDC released a survey this week backing up what we at ITBE have been saying for quite some time: that once the initial blush of virtualization has faded, there needs to be some serious thought given ... More >
More bad news for the Itanium. Just a few weeks after Intel announced it was delaying the launch of the new quad-core Tukwila , presumably to integrate DDR3 memory into the process, a top customer h... More >
If you thought the cloud was going to relieve you of the drudgery of enterprise data management, think again. Many of the same old problems are due to resurface, just on a much larger scale -- data a... More >
Emulex upped its ante in universal storage technology in a big way this week, coming out with a new line of converged network adapters (CNAs), as well as higher-bandwidth Fibre Channel technology and... More >
It's unfortunate, but it shouldn't come as any surprise that Intel and NVIDIA had to take their dispute over integrated memory controllers to court . That's because the issue is much larger than who... More >
IBM users with iSCSI SANs in place will be among the first to wade into unified storage territory with a new set of converged network adapter (CNA) cards for the BladeCenter and System x platforms.... More >
A lot of time, money and effort is going toward the development of desktop virtualization technology. The question is whether any of it will be enough to push the concept from the fringe into the mai... More >
Just a quick update on yesterday’s post about VirtenSys . It seems that the company has broadened its support for network interfaces to include Fibre Channel – specifically Fibre Channel host bus a... More >
It’s a familiar story: Years of industry consolidation and patchwork networking solutions have led to a mish-mosh of protocols and network topologies throughout the data center. You can’t undo it bec... More >
There’s an interesting article in The Register outlining what we’ve touched on here at ITBE a few times in the past – that PCI Express has the chops to form a robust server fabric. A company call... More >
There’s a lot to like about cloud storage. At first blush, it seems like the ideal way to expand storage capacity without having to make significant investments in new infrastructure. And the more we... More >
With all the talk about clouds these days it would seem that plain Jane virtualization is old hat. In reality, though, the technology is just getting started. Gartner reported this week that it estim... More >
If the enterprise is transitioning over to a cloud architecture, that means there will come a time when individual organizations will one day do away with their own data centers, opting instead to ou... More >
Thin client vendors are quickly figuring out that in the virtual desktop universe, flexibility is everything. And while the thin client itself can be tricked out to meet enterprise requirements, cent... More >
So what’s up with Cisco? The rumor mill is working overdrive this week with speculation that the company is on the verge of an acquisition or series of acquisitions that will shore the company up as ... More >
So, how are those new 45 nm chips working out? Pretty cool, huh? What? You don’t even have them yet? Well, no matter because Intel is already blowing past 45 nm and gearing up for the launch of 32 n... More >
Ask most IT executives about green technology and you’ll usually get a response touting their commitment to the cause or the accomplishments they’ve already made through things like virtualization an... More >
NetApp users should see improved storage performance and better data-management capabilities now that the company has more tightly integrated its systems with flash memory devices. The company recent... More >
What will it take to build a 21st-century IT Infrastructure? IBM says it has a plan and is ready to bring virtually all of its hardware, software and services prowess to deliver one that is heavy on ... More >
Even while Intel concentrates on recharging its high-end Itanium line , AMD is looking to gain some ground on the all-important PC space. The company unveiled five new designs for its Phenom II , i... More >
If anyone is still waiting for Intel to make good on its promises for the Itanium processor, it looks like you’ll have to wait a little longer. Seems that the launch of the newest quad-core version o... More >
A powerful new disaster-recovery solution will be on the shelves soon, the result of a union between two leading WAN optimization and business continuity solutions. Riverbed Technology’s Steelhead WA... More >
Last fall, I touched on the notion that virtualization and cloud computing were two pieces of the same pie . Now it looks like quite a few others have hit on the same notion. A recent survey of larg... More >
More and more software firms are discovering the benefits of releasing their systems on appliances, offering improved performance and easier installation and integration for enterprise customers. The... More >
If you are a storage area network (SAN) manager, it’s almost decision time. The coming year should see the general rollout of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology that will allow you to lay ... More >
NetApp has decided that duplication is as bad for storage systems as it is for the data they contain, reports eChannelLine . The company has decided to phase out the low-end StoreVault S line , tar... More >
Windows Vista just celebrated its second birthday and by the looks of things, the operating system will only be a footnote in the history of computing technology. Sandwiched between the popular Windo... More >
Could real-time compression be the missing component that kicks deduplication systems into high gear? The folks over at Storwize certainly think so. The company recently ran a number of tests... More >
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Dell’s cloud strategy , or lack of one to be more specific, noting that most of the top vendors are coming out with heady mixes of hardware, software and services pl... More >
I don’t often blog about PC peripherals, especially ones related to gaming, but I think I’ll make an exception today because the device I saw over the weekend could very easily serve many useful func... More >
Both AMD and Intel have been toying with memory virtualization as a way to share server workloads among multiple systems. Now, it looks like a startup is taking the concept and applying it across the... More >
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