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OpenFlow Nascent But Making Solid Progress
March 12, 2012 09:00 AM
The OpenFlow protocol for enabling software-defined networking has made progress, but to analyst Rohit Mehra, it’s still more of a concept than a reality. At last week's IDC Directions 2012 conference in San Jose, Calif., he tried to put the buzz about OpenFlow in perspective.IBM's SmartCloud Tames Life Cycle Management
March 09, 2012 12:01 PM
IBM has been active in the cloud market for years, including launching its Blue Cloud offering back in 2007, but now the company says it is addressing the next shift in enterprise cloud adoption. According to its new study, nearly 90% of businesses are moving beyond virtualization, so the company's new SmartCloud software, introduced at Pulse 2012, offers improved visibility, control and automation for organizations to securely manage and deploy cloud services.Add Smarts To IT With Predictive Analytics
March 09, 2012 09:00 AM
While adoption of predictive analytics systems is still relatively modest, the promise they hold--giving companies a quick and logical way to make use of unstructured or big data in order to provide preemptive warning of failure, among other things--is prompting vendors to embed the functionality in their larger management consoles and application performance management systems.Infrastructure Upgrade Eases Data Center Challenges for Interactive Data
March 07, 2012 11:00 AM
Interactive Data, a financial information supplier, relies on its computer infrastructure to serve its clients. So when temperature and power fluctuations were sporadically impacting its data center, the company began searching for the root cause of the problem. After a few unsuccessful attempts, an upgrade to its network management solution served as a much needed elixir.HP Seeks To Join IBM, Dell In Value-Add X86 Data Center Server Space
March 07, 2012 09:00 AM
Originally "pre-launched" three weeks ago, the initial seven models of the ProLiant Generation 8, HP's latest version of its x86-based servers, were officially unveiled this week and are expected to ship later this month. The first set of products from the company's Project Voyager initiative--a $300 million investment, with two years of R&D and more than 900 patents--these servers incorporate a number of new features and capabilities that are intended to "redefine the expectations and economics of the data center," including tripling administrator productivity and delivering a return on investment in as little as five months.Modular Data Centers Best Suited For SMBs
March 05, 2012 09:00 AM
The typical data center was designed for finicky mainframes, but in the age of robust virtualized servers--not to mention economic considerations--many organizations are opting to tweak the data centers they have, according to the InformationWeek Analytics State of the Data Center Survey. Many are considering new data center designs rather than dealing with the cost and difficulty of retrofitting an outdated facility, but while modular data centers are growing in popularity, and available from enterprise heavyweights like Cisco, HP, IBM and Oracle, they appear to be better suited for SMBs.HireRight Data Center Refresh Ups Performance 50%, Cuts Power 45%, Footage 60%
March 02, 2012 09:30 AM
HireRight--a provider of cloud-based, on-demand employment screening programs--in collaboration with Cisco and EMC has implemented green technology while launching a refresh to its data center infrastructure. The company says the new deployment increases performance by 50%, decreases power consumption by 45% and reduces data center square footage by 60%.Solid State Drives New Wave of Storage System Startups
February 28, 2012 09:00 AM
It was just last year that many of us in the storage chattering class were talking about how the market for mainline storage systems had consolidated after 3Par and Compellent were swallowed up by HP and Dell, respectively, leaving the market with just one or two smaller vendors to keep the big boys honest. That discussion failed to recognize that solid state storage had made the transition to the mainstream, and that there was a new wave of startups building storage systems optimized for flash.Dell Data Center Rollout Features Next-Gen Servers, Network Virtualization Architecture
February 28, 2012 09:00 AM
Dell is introducing a new line of servers, storage hardware and a network virtualization architecture framework to meet the expanding demands on data centers to crunch petabytes of data. The company introduced the 12th generation of PowerEdge servers--seven models--some targeted at hyperscale environments, others optimized for server virtualization, and one intended for use in small or remote offices.OpTier Tackles APM Silos, Latency Issues
February 23, 2012 09:00 AM
Application performance management (APM) is becoming a critical capability in today's world of cloud-based solutions and the applications-delivered-as-a-service technology model. The market is crowded with dozens of vendors looking to bring APM to the cloud, and OpTier is the latest seeking to stand out from the likes of Compuware, HP and IBM.« Previous Page | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next Page »
