http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole * Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:12 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T19:14:12Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-hot-swappable-data-center/?cs=37662 Resource consolidation, whether it is server, storage or networking, is usually viewed in terms of hardware acquisition costs and operational expenses like power and cooling. But the ability to do more with less is also leading to significant changes in microsoft ethernet strategic_planning commodity_servers cooling_systems business_technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:12 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-hot-swappable-data-center/?cs=37662 2009-11-20T19:14:12Z 4 hours, 55 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/the-hot-swappable-data-center http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37662 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/fibre-channel-for-the-masses/?cs=37616 Isn't it interesting how the ever-shifting sands of technological development can turn long-held assumptions on their heads? Take the case of Fibre Channel. For years it was the gold standard of storage networking, embraced by top-tier enterprises as fibre_channel network_adapters san switches sun_microsystems ethernet storage_management ibm business_technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:49:34 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/fibre-channel-for-the-masses/?cs=37616 2009-11-19T16:49:34Z 1 day, 7 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/fibre-channel-for-the-masses http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37616 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blade-densities-on-the-rise-again/?cs=37599 How dense can they get? I'm talking about blade servers, the latest of which have significantly upped the ante in terms of packing as much processing power in as little space as possible. Super Micro got the ball rolling this week with its announcement hp processors business_technology storageworks blade_servers sun_microsystems super_micro proliant Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:34:00 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blade-densities-on-the-rise-again/?cs=37599 2009-11-18T21:34:00Z 2 days, 2 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/blade-densities-on-the-rise-again http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37599 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/ibm-draws-networking-strength/?cs=37561 HP has networking in-house. Cisco started out with networking and now has its own server line. So if you're IBM at a time when fully integrated data center platforms are all the rage and you've stacked your deck with server and storage technology, how network_performance_management networking_vendors network_adapters business_technology ibm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:19:52 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/ibm-draws-networking-strength/?cs=37561 2009-11-17T19:19:52Z 3 days, 4 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/ibm-draws-networking-strength http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37561 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/first-stop-on-the-cloud-backup-and-recovery/?cs=37524 The implications of cloud computing on the data center are certainly huge, but to be realistic, many of the more esoteric applications are still a few years out. Most enterprises will tread very carefully into the cloud at first, making sure it can cloud_computing backup disaster_recovery business_technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:39:27 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/first-stop-on-the-cloud-backup-and-recovery/?cs=37524 2009-11-16T17:39:27Z 4 days, 6 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/first-stop-on-the-cloud-backup-and-recovery http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37524 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/125-billion-later-its-back-to-business-for-amd-and-intel/?cs=37491 Now that all the ramifications of the recent HP-3Com deal have been thoroughly hashed out, it's time to take a look at the other major event of the past week. I'm talking about Intel's decision to put its legal dispute with AMD to rest to the tune intel business_technology processors amd bulldozer virtualization Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:17:06 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/125-billion-later-its-back-to-business-for-amd-and-intel/?cs=37491 2009-11-13T18:17:06Z 1 week, 5 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/125-billion-later-its-back-to-business-for-amd-and-intel http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37491 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/hp-and-3com-its-all-about-the-core/?cs=37446 It's hard to look at a deal the like Hewlett-Packard's $2.7 billion buyout of 3Com outside the lens of the major corporate-industrial machinations that are driving the data center sector right now. And clearly, this one will have a significant impact on cisco_systems network_performance_management mergers_and_acquisitions hp networking_vendors business_technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:16:54 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/hp-and-3com-its-all-about-the-core/?cs=37446 2009-11-12T17:16:54Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/hp-and-3com-its-all-about-the-core http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37446 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-vdi-network-traffic/?cs=37420 Desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI) is poised to make a big push into the data center in the coming year, and by all accounts the top vendors have bent over backward to ensure their platforms can take root easily and seamlessly in legacy desktop_virtualization business_technology network_performance_management microsoft vmware citrix_systems Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-vdi-network-traffic/?cs=37420 2009-11-11T19:29:18Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/managing-vdi-network-traffic http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37420 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-power-management-systems-at-the-ready/?cs=37388 Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technology that swept the IT industry. So when we see surveys energy_consumption server_virtualization green_technology business_technology network_performance_management green_data_center Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:22:19 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-power-management-systems-at-the-ready/?cs=37388 2009-11-10T19:22:19Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/new-power-management-systems-at-the-ready http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37388 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/serving-up-advanced-architectures/?cs=37340 Amid all the earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting developments surrounding virtualization, the cloud and network convergence, it's easy to forget that there are many more practical matters in the data center that need attention right now. One of these is business_technology server_operating_systems microsoft windows_server_platforms Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:44:30 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/serving-up-advanced-architectures/?cs=37340 2009-11-09T16:44:30Z 1 week, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/serving-up-advanced-architectures http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37340 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/big-or-small-contrasting-approaches-to-the-cloud/?cs=37311 Does the cloud lend itself to a major all-in-one platform, or should enterprises pursue a piecemeal approach, at least for the moment? It should be no surprise that the major platform vendors like Cisco and HP did what they do best for the burgeoning cloud_computing intel cisco_systems hp network_performance_management switches scalemp liquid_computing business_technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:25:08 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/big-or-small-contrasting-approaches-to-the-cloud/?cs=37311 2009-11-06T18:25:08Z 2 weeks, 5 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/big-or-small-contrasting-approaches-to-the-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37311 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-life-in-hard-disk-drives/?cs=37280 It was obvious from the beginning that even though solid-state drives (SSDs) were gearing up for a major push into the enterprise, it hardly meant hard disks (HDDs) were going the way of the dinosaurs. Surprisingly, though, HDDs not only are poised to toshiba stec solid-state_drives hitachi hard_drives business_technology western_digital emc Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:59:05 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-life-in-hard-disk-drives/?cs=37280 2009-11-05T18:59:05Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/new-life-in-hard-disk-drives http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37280 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/on-the-road-to-the-dynamic-data-center/?cs=37234 Your enterprise may be virtual, consolidated, even cloud-ready, but is it dynamic? If you take a close look at the major technology announcements lately, the overriding goal is to provide a flexible architecture that allows you to repurpose and cloud_computing network_performance_management business_technology virtualization Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:33:30 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/on-the-road-to-the-dynamic-data-center/?cs=37234 2009-11-04T16:33:30Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/on-the-road-to-the-dynamic-data-center http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37234 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-rise-of-commodity-data-centers/?cs=37207 Commodity servers, commodity storage, even commodity networking gear -- is the next step going to be commodity data centers? That looks like the direction we're heading based on the latest technology mashups. The big news this week is Cisco's Acadia cisco_systems virtualization sun_microsystems brocade switches emc cloud_computing hp ibm vmware dell business_technology ethernet oracle Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:32:06 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-rise-of-commodity-data-centers/?cs=37207 2009-11-03T19:32:06Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/the-rise-of-commodity-data-centers http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37207 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167 If a private cloud is nevertheless hosted on a public service, is it still a private cloud? It may seem like a dumb question considering the very definition of a private cloud is that it is hosted on the enterprise's own internal architecture, so business_technology unisys cloud_computing network_security Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:41:41 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds/?cs=37167 2009-11-02T16:41:41Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago 4 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/blurring-the-line-between-public-and-private-clouds http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37167