Architectures

Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds Will All Need an IT Service Culture

As more companies move to the cloud, one thing is becoming clear: IT must develop a service culture to keep end users happy.

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Reviews & Workshops

Napa County Bottles Up BYOD Phenomenon

A BlackBerry mobility user, Napa County, moved to Good for Enterprise to bottle up the BYOD phenomenon, and the introduction of different and uncontrolled smartphones.

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Blogs

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Consolidation Hits All-Solid-State Market

May 16, 2012 02:58 PM
Posted by Howard Marks

EMC's purchase of XtremIO wasn't a surprise to our blogger; find out what other moves he's expecting in the all-solid-state market.

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Tags: EMC, XtremIO, solid-state storage, NetApp, flash storage

Channel: Storage & Mgmt, Data Center

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Time To Say Goodbye To Static IPs

May 16, 2012 09:30 AM
Posted by Mike Fratto

Configuring static IP addresses on switches, routers, log servers, databases, management systems and other parts of the infrastructure is a common practice. It's also a bad one. Extending that error to virtual machines and applications is worse.

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Tags: DNS, DHCP, loadbalancer, IPv6, security

Channel: Next Gen Network, Cloud Computing, Public Cloud, Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud

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Laserfiche Mobile Brings Enterprise Content Management to iDevices

May 15, 2012 04:56 PM
Posted by Lee H. Badman

Laserfiche's new application puts enterprise content management into the hands of mobile users.

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Tags: enterprise content management, Laserfiche, iPad, iPhone, applications

Channel: Storage & Mgmt, Content Management, Wireless

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Hybrid Memory Cube Takes RAM to the Third Dimension

May 14, 2012 01:30 PM
Posted by Howard Marks

The new Hybrid Memory Cube promises memory bandwidth up to 1 Tbps, using one-eighth the power per gigabyte. Find out how.

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Tags: Hybrid Memory Cube, chips, RAM, Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium

Channel: Servers & Storage, Networking & Mgmt

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Cisco Acquires Data Analytics Company Truviso: Can It Execute?

May 14, 2012 12:09 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro

Cisco says it intends to acquire Truviso. Our blogger asks: Can the networking company execute on this dive into the data analytics trend?

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Tags: data analytics, Cisco, Truviso, Flip, NetFlow, OpenFlow, software-defined networking, SDN

Channel: Networking & Mgmt

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Interop Las Vegas 2012: A Big Thanks to the Speakers

May 11, 2012 02:00 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto

Our blogger takes a moment to thank the speakers and audience members who took part in Interop Las Vegas--and is already preparing for Interop New York.

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Tags: Interop, data, storage, cloud storage

Channel: Networking & Mgmt, Storage & Mgmt, Cloud Storage, Interop

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