By Joe Hernick and Lorna Garey
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Aug 16, 2008
Companies creating virtual machines without governance and change management equivalent to physical servers are headed for trouble.
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Andrew Conry-Murray
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Jun 7, 2008
IT groups rethinking the "save everything forever" approach find deletion and retention policies and tools must be razor sharp to cut through a morass of regulations.
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Charles Babcock -
May 16, 2008
The virtual desktop and data center are here, but for this technology to continue taking over the enterprise, I/O and security issues need to be addressed.
By
Randy George
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Apr 26, 2008
We set out to determine whether PowerShell is usable, and learnable, for the masses of Windows admins who prefer to point and click their way through daily tasks.
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Mike Fratto -
Mar 19, 2008
Want cutting-edge capabilities? Then you'd better shop your infrastructure upgrade around. In this Rolling Review, we do just that.
By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
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Mar 10, 2008
Running Vista in a virtual machine gives users access to all of the operating system's features while avoiding hardware and application-compatibility obstacles. Here's a primer to get you started, with a link to a free, downloadable e-book.
By
J. Nicholas Hoover
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Mar 1, 2008
Leading-edge operators and consultants share their tips on building ultraefficient, ultrasecure, and ultrareliable facilities.
By
Howard Marks
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Feb 25, 2008
The answer to a barrage of laws and regulations requiring IT to store data for increasing periods of time? CAS and locked NAS.
By
Andy Dornan
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Feb 16, 2008
Switch vendors want to sideline servers by making their devices smarter. Now IT must decide if this is a brave new world ... or a nightmare of lock-in and higher costs
About Network Computing's Storage and Servers Channel
On Network Computing's Storage and Servers channel, our real-world technology editors cover products that sit at the heart of the data center, including storage solutions and server-side hardware and operating system software such as Windows, Unix and Linux. As in all areas of IT, it's all about doing more with less. With that in mind, we cover server virtualization a technology that continue to emerge as a key data center capability, enabling IT to split one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as partitions, guests, instances, containers or emulations. On the server hardware side, we cover dual-core x86 sytems that are taking the server world by storm, led by new systems from Intel and AMD. We also cover blade servers, which offer key capabilities in the areas of power, cooling and management, enabling data center streamlining and consolidation. On the software side, we've tracked Microsoft's attempt to strike back at the Linux juggernaut with the release of its Longhorn server and Vista Desktop. As for storage, we've covered a variety of approaches including storage area networks, or SANs, and network-attached storage, or NAS, as they continue to evolve and come down in price. We also cover the efforts by upstart iSSCI technology to take on Fibre Channel in the big-enterprise SAN market. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of storage and server technologies and products, and don't miss the latest storage and server news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of storage and servers.
