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Continuing with our look at year-end reviews and predictions, I'm struck by the way many of these reports focus on individual technologies but not on the data center in general. If your focus is on, ... More >
This is the time when the trade press is awash with reviews of the past year and predictions for the next. This year, it's almost impossible to miss the prognostications for cloud computing , with n... More >
Amid all the predictions about 2010 being a banner year for virtualization and cloud computing, there is little consideration given to the impact these technologies will have on wide area networking.... More >
Fibre Channel is expected to live on in the enterprise, both as a native protocol and layered onto Ethernet, but the future of the big FC drive itself is starting to look doubtful. At the moment, FC ... More >
Talk about the problem of virtual sprawl and attention quickly centers on the plethora of unused VMs quietly humming along, consuming valuable server resources. But the data center being the organic ... More >
Are Intel and HP beating a dead horse through their continued support of the Itanium processor? Or are detractors simply seeing a glass half empty because the device, while competent, has not lived u... More >
To say that virtualization is now a common facet of data center infrastructure may be factual, but it is not an entirely accurate depiction of the current level of acceptance the technology has garne... More >
The trend toward reducing enterprise power consumption has naturally focused largely on the biggest components: the server farm, storage facilities and networking infrastructure. So it would probably... More >
Is there a chance that cloud computing could actually become an open source paradise? That notion has been driving a lot of development lately, leading some folks to speculate that the cloud could fi... More >
Centralized processing, also known as the mainframe, has had a rocky existence of late. First it was in, being the only game in town. Then it was out as distributed architectures using low-cost blade... More >
Nothing makes people more jittery than uncertainty, and for Sun customers, the ongoing merger process with Oracle Corp. undoubtedly brings to mind that old Clash song: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"... More >
Amid all the talk about virtualization laying the groundwork for cloud computing, dynamic resource allocation and other grand schemes, most enterprises are barely scratching the surface when it comes... More >
By now, it should be clear to just about everyone that the simplified management claims of the early virtualization systems were, to be generous, not entirely accurate. Sure, provisioning and deploym... More >
The major cloud platform providers have largely sold enterprises on the potential benefits of the technology. But now, the pressure is on the make it all work. To do that, they'll need more than just... More >
Does Dell Computer really have the chops to go up against Cisco, HP and IBM for bragging rights to the unified data center? That question came into focus this week with the company's expanded partner... More >
Server consolidation is the name of the game these days, which means enterprise architectures will probably start shying away from large numbers of small machines in favor of more powerful devices ca... More >
The original premise of the cloud was that it would offload much of the hardware burden that many enterprises have been struggling with while maintaining data center service levels and functionality ... More >
Seagate finally made its long-awaited entry into the solid-state disk market this week, counting on its stature as a leading storage vendor and a robust distribution and OEM network to gain traction ... More >
After nearly two years of dismal sales in the enterprise server market, it's certainly understandable if industry watchers grasp onto any positive change as a sign that economic turmoil may be over. ... More >
Is there something eerily familiar about the state of data center networking these days? Time was, IT environments were built around the mainframe -- the massive, room-sized hunks of iron that fed da... More >
Is there any end in sight to this multicore madness? Apparently not, as Intel is now making the rounds with a prototype 48-core device that it bills as a veritable "single-chip cloud computer." The... More >
As far as metaphors go, the term "cloud computing" is pretty accurate. As I noticed while flying to visit relatives over Thanksgiving, real clouds look like solid things from far away, but they tend ... More >
Virtualization has proven to be an effective means of consolidating hardware resources, but it is still limited to the non-critical areas of data center operations. That means most organizations are ... More >
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