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HP Moonshot: A Big Bet On Innovative Engineering
April 10, 2013 10:34 AM
Posted by Kurt Marko
HP's Moonshot servers are a tour de force of engineering that aim to restore the company's innovation groove. Here are the details.
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DIY Storage Part 2: Picking the Right SAN Software
April 04, 2013 04:02 PM
Posted by Jasmine McTigue
I’m building my own SAN as a pilot project at work. I looked at seven storage software packages, including commercial and open source products. Here’s how I decided which was right for me.
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Kill the Traditional PCIe Slot: A Modest Proposal
April 02, 2013 09:26 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Let's get rid of traditional PCIe slots and move all the cable connections to the front of the server. We'll get compelling maintenance and operational advantages. Here's how and why.
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CommVault Simpana 10 Drills Into Information Management
March 21, 2013 10:55 AM
Posted by David Hill
CommVault Simpana 10 extends customers' ability to use stored data for applications such as search, e-discovery and healthcare data management.
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Storage Vendors, Flash Manufacturers, Buy Into Startups
March 15, 2013 02:18 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Storage startups are getting interest—and money—from storage vendors and flash manufacturers. But investment doesn’t always mean the promise of viability.
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EMC Amps Up Flash Product Line
March 06, 2013 11:47 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
EMC announced new high-performance PCIe SSDs to extend its range of flash drives, and said its all-flash array, XtremIO, is now available for customers. The company also rebranded its server-side caching software.
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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.
