Jon Brodkin

 

 

jbrodkin@nww.com

Network World, Inc. 118 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772

Recent articles by Brodkin

IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing
07/01/09
IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs.

Security should be paramount concern with cloud-based e-mail recovery
06/30/09
Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about data security and resiliency before committing to a vendor, analysts say.

Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities
06/29/09
Carnegie Mellon's Data Center Observatory teaches lessons on virtualization and the cloud.

Survey casts doubt on cloud adoption
06/26/09
Only 15% of corporate customers have adopted or are considering adopting cloud technology over the next year.

IBM embraces private cloud model within its own firewall
06/25/09
Big Blue is building several types of private cloud services within its own firewall to help deliver development and research tools to employees.

IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings
06/23/09
IBM, HP, Cray, Intel dominate Top 500 supercomputer list.

Simply Continuous launches disaster recovery service
06/23/09
Start-up Simply Continuous targets mid-sized enterprises with backup and recovery services.

Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management
06/22/09
Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create a shared pool of physical and virtual resources.

At Pittsburgh hockey games, fans dial up live video, replays from mobile phones
06/18/09
An innovative project from Carnegie Mellon University gives Pittsburgh hockey fans a new way to watch the game.

Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors
06/17/09
Sun cancels a high-profile server chip project as Oracle prepares to acquire the company.

VMware’s vSphere brings storage flexibility, greater speed to SaaS provider
06/16/09
When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry.

Data Domain board rejects EMC's $1.8B offer, recommends NetApp merger
06/15/09
The EMC-NetApp turf battle over de-duplication vendor Data Domain could be coming to a close.

IBM goes beyond just slapping 'cloud' label on old products
06/15/09
IBM has re-tooled its cloud strategy in a way that should appeal to enterprises, analysts say.

68-degree data centers becoming a thing of the past, APC says
06/12/09
Cooling a data center to 68 degrees may be going out of style, APC power and cooling expert Jim Simonelli says.

Private clouds a fit for test and development, IBM cloud chief says
06/11/09
IBM’s cloud chief Kristof Kloecker discusses cloud trends, IBM’s plans.

SMBs more interested in cloud than big businesses? Just a myth, Forrester says
06/11/09
Forrester says conventional wisdom is wrong about adoption of cloud infrastructure services.

IT shops borrow money, lease in droves as recession strains budgets
06/10/09
The recession has IT shops seeking financing and leasing agreements in ever-greater numbers, and demand shows no sign of relenting.

Vendors pitch stripped-down servers to giant Web properties
06/10/09
The explosion of giant Web properties has server vendors building a new kind of machine that is stripped down to the bare essentials and optimized for cost- and energy-efficiency, analysts say.

EMC's Tucci makes his case to Data Domain employees
06/09/09
Joe Tucci's latest move in the EMC/NetApp bidding war for storage vendor Data Domain is an open letter to employees.

Four in 10 CIOs slashed budgets in first quarter, Gartner reports
06/08/09
The economy took a steep toll on IT budgets in the first quarter, CIOs tell Gartner.

Trying to outfox EMC, NetApp raises Data Domain offer to $1.9 billion
06/03/09
The price for Data Domain is going up fast, as NetApp Wednesday morning tried to outspend EMC by offering $1.9 billion to purchase the storage company.

Data center network brawl
06/03/09
Cisco has the much-touted Unified Computing System. How do the other big vendors stack up in the battle for the converged data center?

Five technology bidding wars preceding EMC vs. NetApp
06/03/09
As EMC and NetApp try to one-up each other for Data Domain, we take a look back at five previous technology bidding wars.

Server sales dropping faster than in dot-com crash: Gartner
06/02/09
Intel and AMD are spicing up the server market with ever-faster processors, but server vendors have suffered the largest revenue decline seen this decade, Gartner has found.

VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld
05/29/09
VMware reassures industry that VMworld will remain vendor-neutral, after triggering some concerns with changes to the conference’s sponsor and exhibitor agreement.