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Cisco Swings Open The Doors With New Carrier Router
With the promise of giving "an adrenaline boost to networking," Cisco Systems has announced the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. Designed for the service provider market, the new router is a leap forward for Cisco both in bandwidth and throughput. While the new products will not be on any enterprise's wish list, the CRS-3 will grant the large service providers the ability to bring higher performance to the backbone of the Internet and will also streamline and enhance the cloud and video services enterprises are adopting.
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Architectures
Smart Grid Integration A Daunting Task As Green Energy Comes Online
As alternative green energy sources come online, power plants and energy distribution substations find their networks challenged by smart grid demands that call for rapid changes between traditional and alternative energy sources. System and network integration on a smart grid that manages hybrid energy sources is on technology road maps for virtually every utility company now, but a majority are still not diversified with alternative energy. Consequently, the prospect of integrating traditional and alternative energy systems with networks looms large.
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Reviews & Workshops
Windows 7 Rolling Review: Wrap-Up
Deploying a new operating system across a company is a bit like conducting an orchestra: You need the proper instruments in place, and your timing and execution must be right to evoke harmony. Get it wrong and all you get is noise. So for all those would-be maestros of Windows 7, now is the time to take a close look at OS deployment software, which we've tested in our Rolling Review.
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Blogs
FalconStor And Violin Add SSD To NSS
March 10, 2010 9:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
While I had been waiting for FalconStor to add flash support to their Network Storage Server (NSS) storage virtualization software, I was expecting flash volumes off a Fusion-IO or TMS PCIe flash card with promises of automated tiering to arrive sometime before Snow White's prince. I was pleasantly surprised when the folks at FalconStor called to tell me they were aiming a little higher than that and using Violin's solid state memory array as a cache.
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IBM Reloads Enterprise Branding
March 9, 2010 3:00 PM
Posted by Alexander Wolfe
Global CIO's Bob Evans and I were talking with Rod Adkins, the senior vice president who runs IBM's Systems and Technology Group. That operation is Big Blue's Big Kahuna, accounting for $19 billion in annual revenues and including IBM's chip, server, storage and systems software businesses. Did I mention that Adkins is also responsible for IBM's global manufacturing, procurement and customer fulfillment operations? All of this is by way of saying that, when Adkins speaks, one should listen.
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One Million IOPS: Moving The Data Center Bottleneck
March 9, 2010 10:00 AM
Posted by Frank Berry
The first system administrator to ever upgrade a server undoubtedly experienced a mismatch in performance between the installed server and the new component. Since then, millions of data center managers have experienced first-hand the performance bottleneck constantly moving from one component in their data center to another. Have those years of experience stopped smart people in our industry from challenging whether it makes sense to deploy new generations of faster technology, because the new technology has performance the rest of the system can't use? The answer is no. The latest generation of high-performance converged network adapters is a great case-in-point.
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The Types Of Automated Tiering
March 9, 2010 8:00 AM
Posted by George Crump
Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data between tiers of storage, has several methods of delivery. There is some disagreement as to which is the "real" automated tiering. I'm not sure if from a storage manager's perspective it matters, but understanding the types of automated tiering will help you select the best method for your data center.
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Spend More To Save More - Rethinking iPad For Enterprise Users
March 5, 2010 2:00 PM
Posted by Michael Brandenburg
The launch details of Apple's iPad tablet were just recently revealed, with the WiFi-only version of the device going on sale April 3rd and is open to pre-orders on March 12th. While the gadget geeks will certainly be standing by with credit cards at the ready, I believe that waiting a bit longer for the 3G model, and paying a bit more, is the way to go for most enterprise road warriors.
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Is All Storage Hype Bad?
March 4, 2010 11:39 AM
Posted by George Crump
Cloud Storage, Automated Tiering, FCoE and deduplication are the current over-discussed technologies in storage. At some point, a technology gets discussed so much that it becomes over-hyped. The reality is that most of the potential users of any of these technologies are not even close to adopting them. Especially right now, most IT professionals are just trying to keep their heads above water. Is all storage hype bad, though?
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