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Are virtual environments about to become even more flexible? It certainly seems that way with the new generation of live migration capabilities hitting the channel. The great promise of virtualizati... More >
If the greening of the data center has indeed "jumped the shark" as some industry watchers claim, that could prove to be a serious detriment to enterprise operations going forward. In times of... More >
Most public corporations adopt one of two strategies when releasing quarterly earnings statements. If the news is good, you focus on the past – on why earnings were strong and how you managed to get ... More >
It’s happened so often over the years that no one is predicting the end of tape storage anymore. In fact, you could argue that the exact opposite is happening now – a renaissance of sorts in tape lib... More >
WAN acceleration and optimization appears to be on the verge of a shift in architecture as new host-based and virtual technologies move in on the hardware appliance model that has dominated so far. T... More >
SSDs are making their way into the enterprise in a big way. At the same time, more and more PCIe solutions are being optimized for flash technology. With that combination, how long will it be ... More >
Resource consolidation, whether it is server, storage or networking, is usually viewed in terms of hardware acquisition costs and operational expenses like power and cooling. But the ability to do mo... More >
Isn't it interesting how the ever-shifting sands of technological development can turn long-held assumptions on their heads? Take the case of Fibre Channel. For years it was the gold standard of stor... More >
How dense can they get? I'm talking about blade servers, the latest of which have significantly upped the ante in terms of packing as much processing power in as little space as possible. Super Micro... More >
HP has networking in-house. Cisco started out with networking and now has its own server line. So if you're IBM at a time when fully integrated data center platforms are all the rage and you've stack... More >
The implications of cloud computing on the data center are certainly huge, but to be realistic, many of the more esoteric applications are still a few years out. Most enterprises will tread very care... More >
Now that all the ramifications of the recent HP-3Com deal have been thoroughly hashed out, it's time to take a look at the other major event of the past week. I'm talking about Intel's decision to... More >
It's hard to look at a deal the like Hewlett-Packard's $2.7 billion buyout of 3Com outside the lens of the major corporate-industrial machinations that are driving the data center sector right now. A... More >
Desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI) is poised to make a big push into the data center in the coming year, and by all accounts the top vendors have bent over backward to ensure their platforms... More >
Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technolo... More >
Amid all the earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting developments surrounding virtualization, the cloud and network convergence, it's easy to forget that there are many more practical matters in the data... More >
Does the cloud lend itself to a major all-in-one platform, or should enterprises pursue a piecemeal approach, at least for the moment? It should be no surprise that the major platform vendors like C... More >
It was obvious from the beginning that even though solid-state drives (SSDs) were gearing up for a major push into the enterprise, it hardly meant hard disks (HDDs) were going the way of the dinosa... More >
Your enterprise may be virtual, consolidated, even cloud-ready, but is it dynamic? If you take a close look at the major technology announcements lately, the overriding goal is to provide a flexible ... More >
Commodity servers, commodity storage, even commodity networking gear -- is the next step going to be commodity data centers? That looks like the direction we're heading based on the latest technology... More >
If a private cloud is nevertheless hosted on a public service, is it still a private cloud? It may seem like a dumb question considering the very definition of a private cloud is that it is hosted on... More >
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