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Amid all the hype over desktop virtualization, there is one simple fact that tends to be overlooked: Virtualizing a desktop is a lot more complicated than virtualizing a server. In the server farm, a... More >
Every time a new generation of multicore technology is released, there is a mixture of anticipation and concern among enterprise professionals. The anticipation arises from the heightened capabilitie... More >
Is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric the best way to measure data center efficiency? I'm not the first one to ask that question, and I probably won't be the last. However, it does seem that ... More >
When it comes to high-speed networking and advanced cloud architectures, the important thing to remember is that these technologies are not cutting-edge just for their own sakes. The real goal is to ... More >
Management of one virtual platform is complicated enough. But what happens when you start introducing two or even three types of hypervisor into the mix? That question is becoming increasingly less a... More >
Adding solid-state disks to your storage infrastructure does wonders to alleviate the bottlenecks impairing application performance. But faster throughput alone will not solve all the problems brough... More >
SSDs provide a dramatic increase in I/O compared to traditional magnetic disks. So it only makes sense that any investment in solid-state storage is accompanied by increased throughput on the interco... More >
The bad news is that consolidation and tight capital budgets resulting from the depression have forced many data centers to place higher data loads on aging machines. The good news is that a new gene... More >
Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) may have some mileage in it after all now that new generations of SAS technology make it possible to bring the devices into networked storage architectures. The writing ... More >
This week, Mike Vizard at our CTO Edge site asks some key questions on the role of automation in the cloud. He notes that companies like CA, which have made healthy livings providing automation tools... More >
Every aspect of the data center environment can stand a little improvement. But if your backup capabilities are like most, they are in dire need of an upgrade. These 10 tips can help you get s... More >
Solid-state disks (SSDs) have made major inroads into enterprise storage over the past decade or so, boosting application performance and expanding overall capacity at a time when data requirements a... More >
Nobody has time for much of anything these days, least of all a mundane task like data backup and warehousing. So it's no surprise that more and more warehousing and B&R platforms are starting to... More >
Cloud services have gained a foothold in the enterprise mainly by virtue of their low cost and virtually unlimited scalability to meet ever-increasing data requirements. To date, most cloud deploymen... More >
Most enterprises have embraced virtualization primarily as a means to consolidate hardware. Cloud computing, converged networking, flexible data environments -- all of these goals are worthy, but the... More >
In the age of commodity servers, announcements of new devices hitting the channel have become somewhat tedious. New, more powerful chips are developed, servers gain improved processing and more memor... More >
InfiniBand has long been the eccentric uncle of the IT family -- brilliant, yes, but rather odd. He keeps to himself mostly, working on things the larger Ethernet world doesn't fully comprehend. But ... More >
Cloud computing is essentially the means to extend the benefits of virtualization outside the data center walls. So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that a key component of that strat... More >
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