Servers & Storage Channel
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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- Veeam Courts Enterprises With WAN Acceleration
- At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
- Software Hot, Hardware Not, At EMC World, Interop
- Best of Interop 2013 Winners
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Architectures
Big Switch's OpenFlow Controller Guns for SDN Leadership
Big Switch Networks, an ambitious start up in software-defined networking (SDN), has launched a new controller and a pair of networking applications that have the potential to drive OpenFlow-based networks into the mainstream.
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- Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption
- Is Intel's Romley for You? Getting the Most Out of the Xeon E5-2600
- Data Center Pricing Schedules: Driving Positive Vendor Behavior
- Bringing Customer Experience And Business Channel Development Together With IT
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Reviews & Workshops
How to Set Up Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender
Cisco Nexus Fabric Extenders (FEXs) provide ToR connectivity for Nexus 5000 and 7000 series switches. This 9-step plan shows you how to bring a FEX online, and includes configuration tips and code examples.
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Blogs
Solving VDI Problems with SSDs and Data Deduplication
May 22, 2013 04:29 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
When it comes to VDI, users don’t want to sacrifice a rich desktop experience, and IT doesn’t want to get crushed by the storage costs and management efforts required to provide that experience. Data dedupe and SSDs solve this dilemma.
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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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Lessons Learned from SNW 2013
April 30, 2013 12:10 PM
Posted by David Hill
I picked up on two important trends at SNW 2013, including the role that IT can play as an internal broker for public cloud services, and the reasons enterprises are moving cautiously on emerging technology.
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QLogic Launches FabricCache HBA to Accelerate Writes
April 30, 2013 11:32 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
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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Fusion-io Buys Hybrid Startup NexGen
April 25, 2013 02:17 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Fusion-io, a maker of PCIe flash cards, announced it was acquiring hybrid storage array startup NexGen, which sells a flash-optimized system. Fusion-io will sell NexGen’s software directly to integrators.
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IBM Makes Economic Case for All-Flash Arrays
April 22, 2013 11:53 AM
Posted by David Hill
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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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.
