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The economic ripples of last fall's devastating floods in Thailand are likely to continue to roil the IT waters for a while longer, although the impact probably won't be as dramatic as it first appea... More >
The top vendors will never admit it, but desktop virtualization is stuck in neutral. Yes, it's gained enough seats to generate a reasonable revenue stream, and projected deployments suggest a viable ... More >
When I was a kid, one of the first lessons I learned was when something in the house breaks, leave the scene of the crime as quickly if possible, even if you are innocent. Most adults, I realized, we... More >
We all knew it was going to be bad for PCs and other hardware, but the latest numbers coming in from the field are sobering nonetheless. Sales are down across the board as both enterprises and consum... More >
The DC-powered data center is the notion that simply will not go away. But whether that means it has true merit or is simply benefiting from wishful thinking is still very much up in the air. Clearly... More >
The modern form of virtualization is quickly coming up on its 10-year anniversary, and while the technology has undergone a significant amount of refinement in that time, many enterprises are still w... More >
The modular data center movement recently passed the 5-year mark, and it's fair to say that results so far have been mixed. After all, no one really expected much when Sun released the first fruits o... More >
That SSDs provide faster throughput, lower operational costs and high reliability is a given by now. So it should be a no-brainer that they make up at least a part of the enterprise storage infrastru... More >
To date, much of the discussion surrounding the cloud has centered around "how do we build it?" or "how do we access it?" Very few people have asked "what do we do with it?" The simple answer, of cou... More >
It's not often that we see a new class of server that offers more than just a faster, better version of the old class. But with HP's new Gen 8 ProLiant, the consensus is that it really does represent... More >
In data center circles, one of the most unwelcome phrases is "data migration." Even on good days, migrations are tedious affairs that wreak havoc on platforms and systems across the enterprise, leadi... More >
Technology experts may argue over the relative merits of the private cloud versus the public cloud, but the fact is that even moderately sized enterprises are bent on turning their static data archit... More >
Solid-state storage has already won many converts by virtue of its speed, low operating cost and steadily increasing capacities. Now, it looks like the last chink in the armor is about to get hammere... More >
The stress that virtualization and the cloud place on network infrastructure is well known. Nevertheless, it seems that many enterprises are getting a late start on revamping their network architectu... More >
Believe what you want about solid-state storage's ultimate destiny in the enterprise. For the moment, at least, it provides an extremely efficient and effective server cache, which can now be integra... More >
What began as an oddity is poised to become a major factor in data center infrastructure. If the projections are correct, micro servers will be in great demand going forward as enterprises seek to st... More >
The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate versus private clouds goes something like this: Only the public cloud can provide the scalability to meet burgeoning data environments, so private clou... More >
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