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Fujitsu Siemens Computers is on the hunt for dominance of the European and Asian server market, unveiling a new design this week for the company's premiere Primergy server portfolio aimed at lowering... More >
In normal times, the introduction of a dramatically more powerful processor would send enterprise managers into a tizzy trying to deploy it as rapidly as possible. But these aren't normal times -- an... More >
Western Digital may have plunked down a wad of cash for an SSD firm that specializes in embedded systems, but make no mistake about it: The company has the enterprise in its sights. WD paid $65 milli... More >
Server clustering has traditionally been a solution aimed at boosting processing capabilities as data sets from business and database applications become too large for single machines. Lately, though... More >
Everybody wants higher bandwidth on their enterprise networks, but higher bandwidth usually requires higher port densities, which increases both capital and operational costs. Broadcom says it is loo... More >
Where to begin about Nvidia countersuing Intel over the Nehelem licensing issue? Is it a simple question of who is right and who is wrong? Or is there a larger lesson to be learned, perhaps one abo... More >
This week, Hitachi unveiled a 2.5-inch hard disk drive that spins at 10k, has a capacity of up to 300 GB and has a dual-port 6 Gbps SAS interface. In itself, the Ultrastar C10K300 is not that big o... More >
It seems I made an error in a blog a few weeks ago about Fibre Channel, although it doesn't change my view about the long-term viability of standalone FC storage networking. In this post on March 1... More >
Force10 Networks unveiled the first hardware in a line of what is expected to be a broad networking virtualization strategy aimed at both streamlining enterprise networks and getting them ready for c... More >
All right, Dell, now we seem to be getting somewhere. The new enterprise line of systems and services introduced this week seems to be geared toward actual IT solutions, rather than just single produ... More >
With PCI Express (PCIe) bus technology now being eyed as a general enterprise networking fabric in some quarters, the time is right to increase the format's throughput for server and storage platfor... More >
Sun Microsystems may be caught up in the rumor mill at the moment with talk of an imminent takeover by IBM, but in the meantime it's business as usual as the company looks to extend its hand in the e... More >
Enterprises spend a lot of money delivering Ethernet to workers at their desks, but how many have given thought to extending that functionality to, say, the conference room or to visiting areas? Extr... More >
What is the best approach when it comes to green storage? Do you go with fewer large-capacity drives or many smaller drives with idling and power-sharing technologies to reduce consumption? Or do you... More >
OK, I'm a history buff, and I am also impressed by cutting-edge design and engineering, which is why I'm jazzed about the new data center recently built by The Internet Archive. The organization need... More >
IBM and Cisco are on track to reshape the data center industry as we know it over the next several quarters, so it only makes sense to wonder how some of the other vendors expect to weather the storm... More >
While the rest of the world was busy tracking IBM and Cisco in their battle for world domination, HP was quietly making its own move to shore up its base in low-end enterprise hardware. The company i... More >
Everybody knows the cloud is coming, but if you ask people when, or how, or what form it will take, suddenly the consensus starts to break down. At the moment, there seem to be three trends in enterp... More >
Cisco went through great pains this week to assure customers that its new Unified Computing System (UCS) will work smoothly with legacy infrastructures and that it has an army of systems integrators ... More >
How badly will the recession hurt perceived enterprise luxuries like data warehousing and analytics? For both the vendor community and users alike, the answer to that questions could very much determ... More >
EMC has upped the capacity and I/O capability of the Symmetrix DMX-4 storage system with a new set of Flash drives that the company says overcome many of the concerns over using SSD technology for mi... More >
There's nothing like a down stock market to kick the deal-makers on Wall Street into high gear. The big news this morning is that IBM is considering a takeover of Sun Microsystems , a move that woul... More >
The latest figures for the server market are in, and they're not pretty. While many observers expect new technologies like virtualization to eat into server sales, fourth-quarter results were a shoc... More >
Cisco took probably its boldest move into the inner workings of the data center this week, unveiling a new "Unified Computing System" highlighted by the company's long-expected entrance into the serv... More >
Give them points for chutzpah, at least. A small company called MaxxCat is going toe-to-toe with none other than Google in the enterprise search field. The company has an appliance, the EX-5000, th... More >
The march toward 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SANs continues, bringing in some much needed bandwidth for enterprises struggling to maintain storage connectivity for increasing numbers of virtual machines. Th... More >
More news in the effort to foster application compatibility among cloud platforms: Appistry has released the CloudIQ Manager module , said to provide the means to run apps both in the public cloud... More >
Before you think I'm crazy for writing this particular blog entry, please answer these two questions honestly: How much fun do you currently have managing your storage network? How expensive is it to... More >
More news from the virtual management front: EMC released a new addition to its Smarts system that includes drill-down capabilities designed to quickly root out and correct the problems on virtualize... More >
The perennial guessing game surrounding Apple's intentions for the enterprise has entered a new round. But while it may be fun reading the tea leaves to divine Cupertino's master plan, I have a more ... More >
Any thought that a slowdown in the economy would take the pressure off enterprises to continuously beef up their storage capacities is not in sync with reality. In fact, demand for additional storage... More >
WAN optimization is hitting the big time, fueled by a combination of demand for global network solutions and the means to deliver virtual and other resources over the cloud. Infonetics Research's lat... More >
When it comes to acquiring the latest and greatest in enterprise network gear, it seems that the world runs exclusively on fiber. Nearly all of the latest 10 GbE offerings, for example, are designed ... More >
They call it progress, but have you ever noticed that the other guy's solution often turns out to be your headache? If you are an IT administrator in a newly virtualized shop, you probably know what ... More >
It looks like more challengers are lining up to knock the CPU off the enterprise throne. A little while back, I blogged on NVIDIA's recent success bringing its GPU technology to general data process... More >
Just what, exactly, does Microsoft have to gain from virtual desktop technology? Not a lot, apparently, which is probably why the entire concept is getting the cold shoulder from Redmond. But ... More >
It may have taken a while, but virtualization is heading solidly into the mainstream of the enterprise industry, with penetration rates now heading past the 50 percent mark. The latest numbers from ... More >
Despite the rush of headlines it has generated, the ongoing question about cloud computing remains: Is it ready for the enterprise? As with any yes-or-no question, there are two schools of thought. O... More >
RAID arrays featuring 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel connectivity are starting to hit the market, although it is still very much up in the air whether there will be any real demand for that kind of throughp... More >
It's always been a puzzle to me why Oracle has not been more aggressive in the virtualization space. It seemed like a natural fit for a company that built its reputation on business productivity solu... More >
Fusion-io picked the right time to develop an advanced I/O memory architecture for solid state storage systems. Now that SSDs are all the rage among enterprise system vendors, the company is in the d... More >
Things may be looking bad for the Ethernet switch market, but when you are a company like Juniper looking to break into the enterprise side of the house, sometimes you just have to close your eyes an... More >
Add another company that is looking to simplify the search and discovery of unstructured data -- although this one says it has an innovative new architecture that offers greater scalability while tak... More >
Data Domain came out with the first deduplication system close to 10 years ago, following up with a steady stream of upgrades and improvements nearly every year. But once you get to the point where y... More >
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