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VMworld will no doubt be filled with technologies that promise to do more with virtual environments. The fact is, though, that any environment, virtual or otherwise, isn't worth a hill of beans if it... More >
Looking ahead to VMworld next week, the early chatter seems to indicate that this has become the must-see show for the IT industry, which is a remarkable accomplishment considering VMware wasn't even... More >
So is the greening of IT a genuine environmental movement? Or is it just a reaction to high oil prices and the global recession? My guess is that it's a little bit of both. However, one thing ... More >
Even though cloud computing is taking dead aim at low- and mid-tier storage by offering a low-cost alternative with little or no local infrastructure, traditional storage systems are still the name o... More >
To paraphrase the old Edwin Starr song: “The cloud, huh, what is it good for?” While some may be tempted to reply “Absolutely Nothin,’” I tend to think the concept can bring a lot of value to IT, alt... More >
Right from the beginning, it was obvious that virtualization was not an end to itself. It was a stepping stone to an even grander data center. Now, that vision is becoming both clear and, well, cloud... More >
The big news in enterprise storage continues to revolve around the use of solid-state disks (SSDs) in architectures that were once the exclusive domain of hard disks. And yet, despite all the ... More >
Now that both the server and storage infrastructure are well on their way to virtualization at most data centers, the wagons are poised to enter the next frontier: the desktop. But while the vendor c... More >
Will Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) enhance or eat away at existing Fibre Channel infrastructure in the data center? Despite protestations to the contrary, the possibility of a rapidly eroding Fi... More >
It's an interesting development, even if it probably won't have any practical applications for a dozen years or more, if that. I'm talking about IBM's recent breakthrough in what some are calling "D... More >
It seems almost a contradiction in terms. How could something as complex as data warehousing lend itself to the plug-and-play architecture of an appliance? As I and many others have commented before,... More >
Call it the sign of the times, but the introduction of new specialized mainframe bundles marks the end of the platform's role as the general-purpose workhorse of the data center. IBM this week launch... More >
For what looked like a relatively straightforward problem for multicore processor technology, the issue of multithreading applications has proven to be much tougher than many people realized. The han... More >
NetApp may have lost the battle for Data Domain, but that hasn't deterred the company from seeking a larger role in enterprise storage networking. The company is putting in place a strategy that shou... More >
Simplified IT operations has been the stated goal of the vast majority of data center development for the past three decades or more. So why is it that the more development we get, the more complicat... More >
The concept of "going green" in the data center may have jumped the shark, as the saying goes, but only in the sense that adopting energy-efficient technologies and practices is no longer about catch... More >
The momentum for desktop virtualization seems to be building, with many analysts expecting a major push by the vendor community in 2010. The timing is certainly right for those who have vested a lot ... More >
InfiniBand has taken its lumps in this latest recession just as the rest of the IT industry has. But as the most robust networking technology around, it at least has a solid base of high-performance ... More >
If 2009 is the demo year for enterprise-class SSDs, then 2010 should be the year the technology makes major gains, judging by some of the latest developments. SSDs have always had the edge on hard di... More >
Now that storage has provided the wedge service for the cloud, the race is on to see who can tap into some of the higher-level enterprise functions, like database management. A number of services are... More >
If it's true that the cloud is basically virtualization over the wide area, than it's no surprise to see many of the top platform providers jumping on the WAN optimization bandwagon, particularly whe... More >
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