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  • Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition nets unified management software for virtual, cloud environments
    EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors.
  • IT management nirvana: Monitoring physical and virtual environments in one console
    CA introduces Spectrum Service Assurance 1.1, the vendor’s latest management application designed to ease the challenge of monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure to support IT services and guarantee optimal performance.
  • What's driving Application Delivery 2.0?
    In the last WAN newsletter we pointed out our belief that we are entering a new era of application delivery – one that we refer to as Application Delivery 2.0. We also began to discuss some of the challenges that are associated with this new era of application delivery. In this newsletter we will continue to discuss the challenges that are driving Application Delivery 2.0. We will also mention some steps that IT organizations are taking to respond to these challenges.
  • What's driving Application Delivery 2.0?
    In the last WAN newsletter we pointed out our belief that we are entering a new era of application delivery – one that we refer to as Application Delivery 2.0. We also began to discuss some of the challenges that are associated with this new era of application delivery. In this newsletter we will continue to discuss the challenges that are driving Application Delivery 2.0. We will also mention some steps that IT organizations are taking to respond to these challenges.
  • IBM facing double legal trouble
    IBM's lawyers have a busy winter ahead of them as Big Blue attempts to fight off antitrust accusations related to its mainframe business and an IBM employee faces allegations of insider trading.
  • IBM's goal of managing all virtual resources not quite reality
    IBM is promising a single tool to manage all physical and virtual servers, but early versions of the software fall short of that goal.
  • Unused servers squander $25 billion a year
    Millions of servers around the world are doing little more than wasting energy, according to a new study.
  • Sidekick users livid over Microsoft server failure
    Sidekick users have blasted Microsoft in thousands of messages on T-Mobile USA's support forum over the server failure that lost their smartphones' data.
  • Cisco releases pricing for rack servers
    Cisco this week disclosed pricing for the rack-mount servers of its Unified Computing System for data centers.
  • MaxiScale scales out
    A new storage start-up entered the market on Monday with a virtually unlimited software-based cluster for Web-facing applications.
  • 10G causes LAN architecture shift
    An important article related to network architecture may have gotten a little lost in the shuffle when it was published last week on Network World, so I wanted to make sure I drew your attention to it. Jim Duffy wrote about a fundamental shift caused by 10 Gigabit Ethernet, virtualization and blade servers.
  • Oracle, Sun launch high-end OLTP server
    Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies' first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.
  • Future bright for VoIP application server market
    Our colleague Joe McGarvey, principal analyst for IP services infrastructure at Current Analysis, recently wrote an advisory report about the VoIP application server market we'd like to recommend to our readers. Today we'll cover some of the report's highlights.
  • Inside dynamic workload management
    Dynamic workflow management -- the ability to sense changes in demand and automatically invoke requisite application and server resources to meet new workloads -- is quickly becoming a fundamental requirement in the new data center.
  • Juniper invests in data center switch vendor Blade
    Juniper Networks has invested in Blade Network Technologies, maker and supplier of switches for data center blade servers.
  • Red Hat open sources Windows virtualisation drivers
    In another sign interoperability between virtual Linux and Windows operating systems is gathering pace, Red Hat has quietly released a set of drivers to improve the performance of Windows guests hosted on Linux's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
  • Managing application performance in a virtual environment
    Xangati upgrades its AppMonitor suite to help enterprise IT managers better track application performance across a virtual environment down to the end-user desktop.
  • With recent outages, big data service providers take hits
    A variety of Internet-based service providers have seen outages in recent months, raising questions about whether recession-induced cutbacks are killing reliability. Or is the increasing use of external cloud providers, coupled with near-instantaneous Twitter reports of outages, just making what's normal seem worse?
  • BMC buys MQSoftware, bolstering middleware management
    BMC on Monday said it has bought MQSoftware, maker of middleware that helps companies monitor the performance of IBM's WebSphere MQ software, as well as other platforms. Terms were not disclosed.
  • Schooner rakes in $20 million for data access appliances
    Second-round funding for start-up that builds high-powered data access appliances for Internet data centers.
  • HotSchedules gets hot database access
    When Matthew Woodings, CTO for Hot Schedules, a workforce scheduling business in Austin, Texas, faced a growing business that was taxing his data center, he turned to Dell to virtualize his servers and storage.
  • IBM tool allows virtual management from x86 servers to mainframes
    IBM is looking to increase the level of management control in corporate data centers to include virtual systems with a new tool: Systems Director VMControl.
  • Google banks on data center with no chillers
    Google has taken a radical new approach when it comes to cooling data center. The search giant has opened a unique data center in Belgium that has no backup chillers installed, but instead relies totally upon free air cooling to keep its servers cool.
  • Businesses dismiss cloud security concerns
    Business leaders have more confidence in cloud computing than the organisation's technical managers. That is according to business Internet service provider Star, which found that U.K. CIOs have dismissed security concerns about cloud computing.
  • Sun shareholders approve Oracle merger
    Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin.

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