http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole * Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:25:08 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-06T18:25:08Z 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 1 day, 2 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 days, 1 hour 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 3 days, 4 hours 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 4 days, 1 hour 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 5 days, 3 hours 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 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/more-machines-fewer-servers/?cs=37139 The recession clearly gave a hit to data center technology, but probably the worst hit was the server market. On the one hand, technologies like virtualization came along just in time to help enterprises stretch their capital budgets through the lean servers cisco_systems business_technology intel server_virtualization Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:18:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/more-machines-fewer-servers/?cs=37139 2009-10-30T19:18:25Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/more-machines-fewer-servers http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37139 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/so-long-flash-hello-pcm/?cs=37103 Is the clock already ticking on flash memory? Just as the enterprise is finally ready to take advantage of the faster throughput and lower power usage of flash-based solid state technology, along comes another entrant to the cutting-edge storage market solid-state_drives intel business_technology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:55:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/so-long-flash-hello-pcm/?cs=37103 2009-10-29T19:55:18Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/so-long-flash-hello-pcm http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37103 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-windows-7-jumpstart-vdi/?cs=37059 For quite some time now, the prevailing wisdom has put the relatively low uptake of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on security fears and user resistance, despite the substantial cost savings to be had. But now it seems that a third factor was in desktop_virtualization microsoft vmware citrix_systems apple windows_7 mac_osx business_technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:38:30 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-windows-7-jumpstart-vdi/?cs=37059 2009-10-28T15:38:30Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/will-windows-7-jumpstart-vdi http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37059 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/converging-on-the-converged-network-adapter/?cs=37039 Enterprises are eager to converge their disparate storage networking platforms onto a single infrastructure, and hardware manufacturers are eager to oblige. The only thing still up in the air is who has the most robust converged network adapter (CNA) to ethernet fibre_channel network_adapters san network_performance_management emulex ibm business_technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:10:25 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/converging-on-the-converged-network-adapter/?cs=37039 2009-10-27T21:10:25Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/converging-on-the-converged-network-adapter http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37039 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/empowering-the-cloud-through-multicore-technology/?cs=37000 Cloud computing is poised to shake up the enterprise industry in a big way, but could its impact reach all the way to the microprocessor? A number of hopefuls certainly seem to think so, offering visions of new cloud computing platforms that will multicore cloud_computing processor_vendors business_technology intel microsoft research_and_development parallel_computing Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:07:26 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/empowering-the-cloud-through-multicore-technology/?cs=37000 2009-10-26T19:07:26Z 1 week, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/empowering-the-cloud-through-multicore-technology http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=37000 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-google-kill-the-infrastructure-star/?cs=36956 So Google wants to become the top enterprise applications provider, a move that would displace not only Microsoft and IBM in the office, but do away with the on-premises software industry altogether. It's an interesting idea, and one that only Google hardware saas servers business_technology enterprise_infrastructure strategic_planning google Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:58:46 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-google-kill-the-infrastructure-star/?cs=36956 2009-10-23T15:58:46Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/will-google-kill-the-infrastructure-star http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=36956 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-cloud-as-a-warehouse/?cs=36924 The cloud is already making gains in enterprise circles as an effective means to boost storage capacity, so it shouldn't be any surprise that it is already heading in the next logical direction: as a full-blown data warehousing solution. A few weeks cloud_computing business_technology amazon data_warehousing teradata greenplum_software Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:36:38 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/the-cloud-as-a-warehouse/?cs=36924 2009-10-22T16:36:38Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/the-cloud-as-a-warehouse http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=36924 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-the-cloud-infrastructure/?cs=36898 The cloud is shaping up to be a great way to manage resources in the data center. The question is, how will you manage resources on the cloud? It's more than just an academic question at this point, with the IT industry poised for major expansion onto virtualization network_performance_management nimsoft cloud_computing vmware saas business_technology unisys linesider_technologies Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:06:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/managing-the-cloud-infrastructure/?cs=36898 2009-10-21T21:06:47Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/managing-the-cloud-infrastructure http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=36898 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/a-little-networking-among-friends/?cs=36860 IBM is on a tear this week, furthering its strategy of incorporating third-party technology, particularly networking gear, into its data platforms in the hopes that variety will provide a leg up as enterprises lay out their long-term cloud computing networking_vendors ibm fibre_channel business_technology hp networking ethernet cisco_systems Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:49:13 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/a-little-networking-among-friends/?cs=36860 2009-10-20T21:49:13Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/a-little-networking-among-friends http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=36860 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-help-for-flash-in-the-enterprise/?cs=36811 Is one of the major limiting factors to widespread deployment of Flash storage in the enterprise starting to show some cracks? It seems that way as both new system and software designs are taking a bead on the poor write durability of both storage flash_memory micron solid-state_drives windows_7 business_technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:37:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/new-help-for-flash-in-the-enterprise/?cs=36811 2009-10-19T20:37:14Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/new-help-for-flash-in-the-enterprise http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=36811