Latest data center news.
New Data Center Supplement: Managed storage comes of age, 05/22/06
The maxim that timing is everything in business has special application to today’s enterprise storage service providers. SSPs have evolved to the point where most experts and users say their time has come.
New Data Center Supplement: Giving servers the boot: 05/22/06
In response to IT demands for increased efficiency in managing diskless and blade servers, storage-area network vendors have begun crafting next-generation tools that perform advanced server provisioning.
New Data Center Supplement: SANs on the move, 05/22/06
Because of the large-scale growth in data, many of today’s storage-area networks have evolved considerably from their early, well-contained deployments. Corporate IT executives are pushing SANs to their limits – in size, complexity and functionality …
New Data Center Supplement: Utility storage: Right on the money, 05/22/06
MB Financial Bank, one of the largest independent banks in the Chicago area, proclaims it makes banking “betsimpsier”: better, simpler, easier. Among the reasons the bank can make such a claim is its use of utility storage, a New Data Center technology.
New Data Center Supplement: The hacker-resistant database, 05/22/06
How many identities will be stolen or corporate assets commandeered before you build as strong a fortress around your database as you do around the perimeter? Millions? Dare I say, billions?
New Data Center Supplement: Continuous data protection gets gussied up, 05/22/06
Continuous data protection tools have become all the rage. They’re popular with IT executives developing New Data Center storage plans, because they deliver a time-sensitive approach to backing up and recovering data. But CDP vendors aren’t resting on …
New Data Center Supplement: Virtual tape takes on disaster recovery, 05/22/06
When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which mimics a tape backup library but uses disks as the …
Nortel adding IPS feature to Alteon application switch, 05/22/06
Nortel today is set to announce the addition of intrusion-prevention capability to the Nortel Alteon application switch.
Microsoft nabs Softricity in virtualization push, 05/22/06
As part of its ongoing plan to beef up its virtualization portfolio, Microsoft Monday unveiled it would acquire virtualization vendor Softricity, revealed a timeline for offering built-in hypervisor technology for Windows Server and introduced a new …
Start-ups zero in on Microsoft backup, storage, 05/19/06
A new breed of companies is focused on protecting Microsoft servers running at small and midsize businesses. The companies, such as Idera, Meridio and XOsoft, specialize in backing up, archiving or otherwise protecting systems running programs such as …
Dell plans AMD servers; Q1 profit falls, 05/18/06
In a surprise move, Dell on Thursday announced it will use Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in its high-end, multiprocessor servers by the end of the year.
HP to consolidate its data centers, 05/17/06
In a move expected to cut IT spending by $1 billion, HP is consolidating its 85 data centers into six, the company said Wednesday.
Branch Office Best Practices Newsletter: Consolidation trend shifting from data center to branch office, 05/16/06
Data center consolidation has been the hot trend of the past few years. Now the practice of consolidation is turning toward the branch …
New Data Center Newsletter: The four main data center trends, 05/16/06
Nemertes’ latest data center research involved interviews with 82 IT executives – CIOs, IT directors, data center managers, and other professionals …
