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Silver Peak Boosts WAN Performance with New Products
May 03, 2013 12:45 PM News roundup: Silver Peak speeds up WANs with new hardware and software; Ubuntu Server 13.04 plays nice with VMware; Jeda controller creates storage fabric; Acxoim cloud emphasizes security; Tenable adds reporting features to Nessus.
Integrated Systems Poised for Astonishing Growth
May 02, 2013 04:58 PM IDC says sales of integrated infrastructure—pre-configured bundles of compute, networking and storage—will total $3 billion in 2013 and grow 50% a year over the next half decade.
Data Center Boom Heats Up
April 23, 2013 11:29 AM Cloud providers are racing to offer the best value and availability to customers, spurring over a million square feet of new data center development in the U.S.
Postcards from Tomorrow's Data Centers
April 16, 2013 08:00 AM Today's data centers are essentially the same: long rows of metal racks stocked with machines, miles of cable, and elaborate cooling systems. But just because we build data centers this way in 2013 doesn't mean that's how it will be in ten, twenty or fifty years. Here's a few glimpses of what the future might hold, from printable electronics to nanotube processors to nuclear batteries.
Cloud Prices Drop, But Do Customers Save?
April 11, 2013 03:21 PM Cloud price wars sound like a good thing, but customers of IaaS have to be vigilant to ensure that real savings actually materialize.
Commentary
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Brent SalisburyInside Google's Software-Defined Network
Google shared details on its production use of OpenFlow in its SDN network at this spring's Open Networking Summit.
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Kurt MarkoEMC ViPR Goes All In on Software-Defined Storage
EMC's ViPR, a new software-defined storage platform, is a big bet on virtualized storage services. ViPR borrows from the SDN playbook with a controller and APIs.
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Howard MarksQLogic Launches FabricCache HBA to Accelerate Writes
QLogic's FabricCache, a Fibre Channel HBA that combines flash memory and caching, may be the easiest way to accelerate write-intensive applications.
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Andrew Conry MurrayGoogle's Green Energy Scheme: Laudable or Laughable?
A Google initiative to pay more for renewable energy at its data center in Lenoir, N.C., spurred a variety of reactions from readers. Some saw it as a step forward for green energy; others call it plain dumb.
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David HillIBM Makes Economic Case for All-Flash Arrays
IBM claims all-flash arrays are now more economical than traditional hard disks for Tier-1 storage. Is it time to ditch spinning disks?
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Kurt MarkoMerchant Silicon About to Get Smarter
The march to SDN designs has led many to think we're entering an era of dumb switches. Instead, look for the commodity silicon to get a lot smarter.
Slideshows
Postcards from Tomorrow's Data Centers
April 16, 2013 08:00 AM Today's data centers are essentially the same: long rows of metal racks stocked with machines, miles of cable, and elaborate cooling systems. But just because we build data centers this way in 2013 doesn't mean that's how it will be in ten, twenty or fifty years. Here's a few glimpses of what the future might hold, from printable electronics to nanotube processors to nuclear batteries.
HTML5 Mobile Development: 7 Good Ideas (and 3 Bad Ones)
February 13, 2013 01:28 PM HTML5 can be a boon to enterprise mobile app development, but you have to identify the right use cases to make it work. Here are 7 scenarios that make sense for HTML5, and 3 you might want to avoid.
8 CES Gadgets You Have To See
January 11, 2013 04:45 PM Sure, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a giant circus, but it always features something revolutionary, or at least oddly interesting. Maybe even useful. Here are eight compelling products that emerged from the show; judge for yourself how useful they might (eventually) be.
Editor's Choice
RESEARCH: 2013 Backup Technologies Survey
Think backups are boring? Not so, say more than 500 IT pros. Most, 60%, use two, three or even more different backup applications, and the percentage encrypting all media has jumped 15 points since 2011.Get full survey results now! »
Digital Issue: The Standardization Debate
An IT infrastructure constructed from uniform blocks of hardware and software is easier to manage and secure, and new services can be rolled out fast. But giving business units carte blanche can deliver more flexibility, drive innovation and better meets employee needs. Two IT executives square off in this debate, and almost 400 survey respondents weigh in too.Get the Digital Issue »
WEBCAST: Avoiding Downtime: How Virtualization Can Help In Times of Trouble
Server and storage virtualization can help keep systems alive even in the face of demand spikes, disasters and other troubles. Attend this webcast to learn how virtualization can maximize application availability, create business continuity options for critical apps, and improve disaster recovery.Register Today »
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