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Emerging DCIM Software Market To Grow 500% By 2015
The precise definition of data center infrastructure management appears to be in the eye of the beholder, but whatever DCIM is, it is growing rapidly, states 451 Research. In its inaugural DCIM software market-sizing report, 451 Research finds that 2010 revenues of $245 million will see a 39% compound annual growth rate through 2015 to $1.3 billion, says Andy Lawrence, research director, eco-efficient IT and datacenter technologies.
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Architectures
Datotel Uses CA Tool To Reduce Energy Consumption
When management suites first emerged, companies were concerned with items such as, "Is the server up or down?" or "How much network bandwidth is being used?" With those issues now sitting firmly in the rear-view mirror, businesses are looking for new types of management solutions. Datotel, an IT data center services provider, based its recent purchase on an emerging area: "We needed to get a better understanding of our energy usage," notes David Brown, president of Datotel, which now finds itself at the forefront in the use of such products.
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Reviews & Workshops
XKL Brings New Life To Dark Fiber
New system from Cisco co-founder Len Bosack taps existing cable for low-cost, no-fuss optical networks.
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Blogs
Facebook's Open Compute Summit Pushes Open Hardware For The High End
October 28, 2011 2:28 PM
Posted by Jim Rapoza
At the Open Compute Summit this week in New York, Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware design and supply chain, opened the proceedings by saying, "Open source is not just something that you can use to describe software, but also to describe the hardware space." That is the goal for the Open Compute Project, which aims to spur the development of cheaper servers and more efficient data centers.
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IBM Systems And Tecnology Group Growth Strategies
December 08, 2010 5:48 PM
Posted by David Hill
At its recent industry analyst event in Rye Brook, N.Y., IBM's Systems and Technology Group (STG) unveiled its five-year growth strategies for 2011 through 2015. As the guardian of the hardware and software that exploits that hardware to maximum benefit, STG is one of the recognized foundations of IBM, with a wide range of servers (including x86, Unix and mainframe systems) and storage products, as well as the IBM Research labs that support those efforts. Understanding what IBM STG is doing is important to understanding not only what the company is doing now and plans to do in the near future, but also to understanding what IBM thinks are the dynamics that will be driving the IT industry in years to come.
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Nimbus Goes All-In For SSD
May 07, 2010 9:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
In the venture-driven, "grow-faster-or-go-home" storage world, it's gratifying when a company is run like the small business that it is. Nimbus Data systems has been selling iSCSI disk arrays and unified storage systems for about five years, and they've been making money despite their low profile. Now, like Cortez burning his ships upon his arrival in the New World, Nimbus data CEO Tom Iskovich is betting the company that the market is ready for all SSD storage systems, discontinuing their current models with spinning discs. I've written before how I thought an array of reasonably priced SSDs might be a better idea than a few STEC ZEUSiops at $10,000 or more a pop. Now Nimbus has proven me right.
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Viridity's EnergyCenter Brings Energy Management To The Data Center
March 31, 2010 11:16 AM
Posted by David Hill
Mark Twain famously said, "Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Conversely, in IT everyone talks about data center energy efficiency, and many vendors are trying to do something about it. The introduction of Viridity's new EnergyCenter offers a particularly intriguing example. Viridity, a start-up company, tackles the data center energy-efficiency problem head on with EnergyCenter, a software approach to enabling data center energy optimization. Now corporate initiatives to go "green" are well and good, but there a couple of pragmatic business reasons why energy efficiency is being increasingly scrutinized within IT organizations.
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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 09, 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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