Data Center Breaking News

Highly anticipated net virtualization startup Nicira exits stealth mode

One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.
Juniper's financial challenges continue

Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.
CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds

CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.
John Deere plows into agile

John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.
4 ways to beat data bloat

It is estimated that unstructured data -- everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media -- accounts for at least 90% of an organization's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT organizations will grow by as much as 800% in the next five years.
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers

Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks.
Gartner lowers 2012 IT spending forecast to 3.7 percent growth

Research firm Gartner announced Thursday that it has lowered its 2012 IT spending forecast, with spending expected to rise only 3.7 percent, rather than the previous forecast of 4.6 percent growth.
Extreme CEO: New products in 2012, growth in 2013

After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches.
Data center, cloud fabrics to heat up in 2012

There was a considerable amount of activity in the data center/cloud switching fabric arena in 2011. That is expected to continue in 2012, along with real world implementations of the next-generation IT technologies.
30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011

2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.
Alcatel-Lucent unveils key piece of data center fabric

Alcatel-Lucent this week rolled out 40G Ethernet modules for its top-of-rack data center switches to help further its data center fabric strategy.
CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs

As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, William McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies, spoke at the recent CA World conference to IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how the concept of 'business service innovation' is driving CA's business. Insider (registration required)
Converging SAN traffic in the data center

Most organizations today use dedicated storage networks in the data center, but the concept of leveraging converged network infrastructure to provide organizational storage services is gaining steam.
Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services.
New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration

Cisco this week unveiled products and packaging options for customers looking to implement public, private and hybrid cloud computing.
'Server huggers' present obstacle to cloud adoption

Chipita America CIO Scott Martin didn't see a competitive advantage in managing internal systems, believing that moving to the cloud would provide time to focus far more on business needs.
Cisco data center forecast very cloudy

Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from now to 2015, according to a newly released survey from Cisco.
CIO Q&A: How Citrix supports more workers with lower IT budget

Citrix CIO Paul Martine is the poster child for everything that Citrix markets to other CIOs.
A high-tech pioneer reflects on the digital revolution

The man who led the design and development of the first microprocessor 40 years ago said at the time he didn't foresee the extent of the digital revolution he was helping to create.
Better Windows support due on IBM mainframes

IBM said its mainframes will soon be able to manage Windows applications, bridging one of the last major divides in data centers.
6 ways to build SDNs without OpenFlow

Although OpenFlow is stirring up all of the excitement around software defined networking (SDN), you can program a network with standard tools that have been around a while. Here are a few examples.
OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution

APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements them the same way. Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana?
Dell announces new Kace appliances for 3,500 seats

Dell is outfitting its new Kace systems management appliances with advanced hardware as it tries to fill software and hardware management needs of midsize businesses with up to 3,500 employees.
One company's move to go virtual leads to I/O constraints

Austin Radiological Association has virtualized a quarter of its server and desktop infrastructure and hopes to hit 100% within a year. But the move has caused storage I/O bandwidth problems.
Chambers: Cisco's Q1 solid, but access routers, Nexus 7000 lagging

Despite a solid quarter as evidence its turnaround plan is working, Cisco still has more work to do to get where it wants to be.