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16 G Fibre Channel is finally here, so we should expect to see the first wave of commercial products hit the channel by the beginning of the year. And while no one can argue against a doubling of thr... More >
Has IBM finally caught the enterprise networking bug? And if so, is there enough time to establish itself as a full server/storage/networking partner before the next phase of enterprise architecture... More >
It's no big surprise that people are still asking, "What is the cloud?" A concept this broad and with so many ramifications for all manner of enterprise architecture cannot possibly confine itself to... More >
Ask anyone in the IT industry which processor owns the server market and you'll get the same answer: x86. Sure, some RISC machines are still out there, but they're usually in the high-end specialty s... More >
It used to be that selecting an enterprise networking protocol was relatively easy. If you had the money, you went with Fibre Channel for storage, InfiniBand for the server interconnect and Ethernet ... More >
IBM, HP and Dell own the enterprise. Oracle owns the carrier networks. And now that Oracle is on the map with a new-found hardware platform courtesy of Sun Microsystems, will it be very long before t... More >
When does technology cease to be about innovation and more about economics? When it emerges as the only bright spot in an otherwise lackluster economy. That's the only conclusion I can reach given th... More >
The rapid advance of solid-state technology is set to remake more than just the storage architecture of the modern data center. At the pace things are going, it is entirely possible we could see a dr... More >
While data warehousing was considered a luxury only a few years ago, it's a necessity now as data continues to increase. But shift the conversation to the best way to implement a warehousing architec... More >
The drive for greater data center throughput usually focuses on the network. Ethernet, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and the overall network fabric are the main drivers to greater performance. On the com... More >
An open cloud platform is a lot like world peace. Everyone says they want it, but no one is sure how to get it. And in the end, would it really be the ideal state of affairs that we all dream about, ... More >
It's an article of faith among virtual desktop proponents that once users get up and running on the technology, all those fears about loss of control and security will fall away. To that end, there n... More >
In SSD circles, the debate between single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell (MLC) technology is ongoing. SLC provides higher throughput, which is the primary driver for solid-state disks in the e... More >
Clearly, solid-state technology will not send the hard-disk drive into oblivion. Both will have their uses in enterprise settings, so the question is not whether HDDs will disappear, but how will the... More >
It looks as if the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) benchmark has become the de facto standard for gauging data center efficiency, which is surprising, considering so many experts say it provides an i... More >
The dust has settled, HP will be the new owner of 3PAR in a few months, and now there's nothing left but the Monday-morning quarterbacking. Is Dell washed up in the cloud market? Did HP overpay? And ... More >
It may seem like an odd thing to say after all these years, but it seems that enterprises will finally have the means to deploy virtualization in a big way. While the adoption rate for virtualization... More >
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