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A unified storage architecture offers a dramatic improvement over existing file-and-block storage networking, particularly in newly virtualized environments. But aside from the obvious benefits of in... More >
A strange dichotomy is forming around the emerging market for private clouds. Despite, or perhaps because of, the case for femtocells vendors continue to introduce ever-more-simplified cloud startu... More >
Virtualization has been good for enterprise networking. Or has it? In truth, the answer lies in your perspective. On the one hand, virtualization's impact on the network has been very positive if you... More >
Probably the single biggest limiting factor on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments is its impact on storage. Specifically, the ability of most SANs to accommodate legions of knowledge wo... More >
If virtualization is one of the underpinnings of the cloud, then how do you explain the relatively broad adoption of the former and the relatively slow adoption of the latter? According to a new repo... More >
It seems that the more diversity we see in virtual environments, the more diversity we see in virtual management stacks. That's not necessarily a bad thing, considering the wide variety of management... More >
It's been nearly two years since the term "cloud computing" leaked into the IT lexicon and still many leading experts in the field are struggling to come up with a definition. That has to be a testam... More >
An interesting dynamic is playing out in high-end server circles as enterprises confront the twin paradigms of ever-larger many-core devices vs. tighter clusters of relatively smaller machines. Take ... More >
The prevailing theory is that IT spending will remain healthy as the economy slogs through the recession, particularly if that spending is aimed at streamlining data center infrastructure and lowerin... More >
Is Dell on the road to becoming a true technology partner for enterprises looking to expand virtual and cloud environments? Or is it simply amassing an amalgam of random systems hoping that, eventual... More >
For public cloud providers, backup and recovery is what's called a wedge. It's the service that gets your foot in the door, after which you hope to convince clients of the myriad other ways in which ... More >
First virtualization, then the cloud. That pretty much sums up the game plan for most enterprises these days. The reality is quite a bit different. Aside from networking issues like 10 GbE and unifie... More >
When SSDs were first introduced to the enterprise, they were seen as lower-cost, high-I/O alternatives to short-stroked SATA and SAS drives. By adopting the same interfaces, it was easier to swap out... More >
If virtualization has proven anything over the past decade, it's that enterprise systems don't exist in isolation. Even in the pre-virtual days, during the silo period of fixed hardware/software rela... More >
How much green, as in money, is at stake in going green? Quite a lot, apparently, if the latest projections hold up. A pair of reports on the market for environmentally friendly IT technology hit the... More >
Private clouds are still drawing keen interest among enterprise managers, primarily as a means to gain all the benefits of public cloud computing while retaining full control of data, applications an... More >
The quest for the ever-greener data center has long focused on more energy-efficient hardware and software platforms, both to lower consumption for actual data processing and lessen the resulting hea... More >
For a long time, it seemed iSCSI was going to have Fibre Channel for lunch as the storage networking protocol of choice for the vast majority of small and medium-sized enterprises out there. The thin... More >
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