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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Dickens was describing London and Paris during the French Revolution. But in today's world, it is an apt description of the IT industry during... More >
So you have your physical infrastructure, your virtual one and now a burgeoning cloud environment to deal with. Can anyone out there say "management nightmare"? The challenge of server management was... More >
Cisco's Unified Computing Systems (UCS) is barely a month old and already it has caused major shockwaves in the IT tech industry -- without even so much as an actual deployment. Whether the platform ... More >
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is finally here. Who wants to go first? The steady rollout of FCoE equipment is continuing at a steady stream, and to be fair there are already a number of showcase... More >
SSDs are marching into the enterprise, but perhaps even more significantly, they are extending their presence directly onto some of the most popular server platforms, offering local storage in the sa... More >
It's been well-documented that advanced technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, not to mention the dismal economic conditions in general, are depressing demand for servers, storage syst... More >
It should be clear to everyone by now that the days of bigger, better storage are over. It's no longer a simple matter of adding capacity to suit peak data loads because a) storage maintenance and op... More >
Thin client technology is like the Chicago Cubs of the IT world: it's been building for a long time and is just about to break out, just as soon as it works out a few more details. But no matter how ... More >
Virtualization, cloud computing, network consolidation and the relentless expansion of data loads in general are pushing enterprise networks to the limit. And while new technologies like I/O virtuali... More >
Now that energy costs are on the rise again, there are no doubt some enterprises that are lamenting the fact that they didn't take energy conservation seriously enough these last few months. But if n... More >
Enterprises will soon be moving large amounts of data over the cloud, or so says the conventional wisdom, realizing unprecedented flexibility through global load balancing and resource scalability. A... More >
Call it the final (major) piece of the puzzle as Oracle looks to re-invent itself as an all-purpose enterprise solutions provider. The company announced late yesterday that it was buying out Virtual... More >
Conventional wisdom has it that solid-state disks (SSDs) will come to dominate Tier 1 and possibly Tier 2 storage, with conventional disk and tape media taking on a less active role. That view might ... More >
The good news for a company that is out to dominate an industry is that you can tell you've succeeded when all the other players out there start gunning for you. The bad news, though, is that now all... More >
Just about everyone in the IT business realizes that the most annoying aspect of the current recession is that while profits are down, data requirements are up. That makes it difficult to purchase an... More >
It looks like Sun hardware will remain in the Oracle family, for the time being at least, as the company wants to try its hand at integrated hardware/software platforms like the IBMs, HPs and now Cis... More >
Cloud computing may still be in its infancy, but those who are wading in are coming to the realization that, in at least one area, it shares a lot of commonality with preceding technologies: the need... More >
Employees grabbing IT applications like teenagers at the iTunes store? That's the vision Citrix is going for with its new Dazzle platform that allows managers to set up a storefront for users to se... More >
Now that the era of network convergence is upon us, it's almost become unfashionable for a networking vendor to sport just one protocol. One after the other, companies that once specialized in Ethern... More >
The past several years have produced plenty of motivation for enterprises to institute broad disaster recovery programs, so much so that it's hard to imagine even a medium-sized organization without ... More >
True to form, the recession bringing industry consolidation as smaller firms look to join forces to improve their competitive advantages when the recovery comes. The latest example is QLogic's impen... More >
Enterprises are awash with tools and techniques -- from virtualization to SSDs -- that bring tremendous reductions in power consumption to servers, storage and networks. But when it comes to the PC, ... More >
Can deploying applications in the cloud be heading for plug-and-play? It certainly seems possible, considering IBM's latest development: an appliance that lets you extend existing SOA applications on... More >
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