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News and Analysis
Dell Launches New Cloud Products For Citrix Users
Dell's new converged infrastructure and thin client products expand the company's enterprise portfolio -- but can they distract from buyout drama and tanking PC revenues?
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- Amazon, Microsoft Partner Up for Cloud Management
- At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
- Iron Mountain Opens Underground Data Center to All
- Huawei CEO Dismisses Security, Spying Concerns
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Architectures
SDN: From Slideware to Software in 2013?
2013 should be the year SDN transitions from an over-hyped R&D project to an actual product category. At same time, the market will split into several distinct architectural approaches.
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- Big Switch's OpenFlow Controller Guns for SDN Leadership
- HP EVI vs. Cisco OTV: A Technical Look
- Android, iPad Tablets Drive Enterprise App Development
- Desktop Virtualization No Cost Saver?
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Reviews & Workshops
Digital Hoarding: Do We Have a Problem?
Approximately 2.8 zettabytes of data were created and stored in 2012, and that number is expected to increase 50-fold by the end of the decade. When does data storage turn into data hoarding, and what are the consequences?
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Blogs
IT Vendors Need More Pricing Transparency
May 23, 2013 12:37 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
Compiling our SDN product comparison provided a vivid lesson in the difficulty of getting meaningful prices for enterprise IT equipment.
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Google's Wireless Sensors: Big Data or Big Brother?
May 22, 2013 12:32 PM
Posted by Kevin Fogarty
Google demonstrated a network of wireless environmental sensors at its I/O conference last week. These sensors, combined with projects like Google Glass, expose the potential for the use and misuse of relentless data collection.
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EMC Navigates the IT Transformation Waters
May 21, 2013 04:43 PM
Posted by David Hill
Here's what I took away from this year's EMC World, including thoughts on Pivotal and ViPR.
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Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
May 16, 2013 12:46 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White have departed the flash memory company just weeks after acquiring NexGen Storage, a startup. Reports say Fusion-io's board wasn't satisfied with revenue growth.
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Eliminating Noisy Neighbors in the Public Cloud
May 15, 2013 08:05 PM
Posted by David Hill
An IaaS provider is using all-SSD arrays and storage QoS to ensure that some tenants can’t disrupt performance of others by overconsuming resources.
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Juniper Pushes SDN Strategy Ahead With JunosV Contrail
May 07, 2013 04:51 PM
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JunosV line includes open controller; Riverbed debuts ADC-as-a-service; Huawei expands CE12800 switch series; Ixia simulates data centers for validation; BMC agrees to acquisition.
Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
