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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
- Amazon, Microsoft Partner Up for Cloud Management
- At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
- Iron Mountain Opens Underground Data Center to All
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Architectures
LV 1871: Taking Virtualization to the Next Level
German insurance Firm LV 1871 boosted its data center, IT and storage capabilities through the use of "next gen" virtualization, which goes beyond servers and works to eliminate costly NAS storage by creating a virtualized storage SAN backbone.
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- A New SAN Improves Application Performance And Saves Paydays
- Two Companies Cope With Storage And Transfer Of Large Files
- School District Optimizes Virtual Machine Archiving
- Expanding Role Of Data Deduplication
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Reviews & Workshops
Rackspace Open Cloud Takes on Amazon AWS
The vendor rolls out three Open Cloud offerings--Cloud Servers, Control Panel and Cloud Databases--based on the OpenStack cloud project. Can Rackspace turn OpenStack into the de facto standard? What does Open Cloud have that AWS doesn't? Find out.
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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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Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
May 16, 2013 12:46 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White have departed the flash memory company just weeks after acquiring NexGen Storage, a startup. Reports say Fusion-io's board wasn't satisfied with revenue growth.
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EMC ViPR Goes All In on Software-Defined Storage
May 06, 2013 02:01 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
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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The Three Transformations of IT
May 03, 2013 11:39 AM
Posted by David Hill
IT is entering its third transformation as we learn to grapple with the explosion of data generated by the Internet of Things.
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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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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.
