Data Center World: Green and Lean
Gartner may have scratched its Spring IT Expo, but AFCOM's Data Center World 2009 is on. The convention is March 8-12 at the Paris Hotel and Convention Center in Vegas. The major theme this year -- how to be green in lean times...
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Memory virtualization
Credit Suisse was a very early server virtualization devotee, as I mentioned in my earlier post. That means virtualization comes into play at just about every layer of the IT infrastructure. Next up, quite possibly, is memory, said...
Credit Suisse: virtualization in a services model
My continuing series showcasing virtualization insight from virtualization pros today focuses in on Credit Suisse.
This global financial services firm is one of those companies that recognized early on that virtualization would be...
Managed service as must-have for virtualization
I recently interviewed more than a dozen enterprise IT executives about their must-have tools for virtualization (view a slideshow of some of their choices). Beyond the actual tool choices, they had lots of interesting things to say...
'Lean provisioning' as must-have
At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, Wash., “lean provisioning” has turned into a virtualization must-have, said Daryl Anderson, portfolio manager for application and data hosting/housing at the lab, in a recent...
Cisco and the virtual data center
Cisco wants in on the data center -- the virtual kind, that is. If that message has failed to escape your notice till now, then the company hopes its latest raft of announcements will drive home the point. With the Cisco Live!...
Net optimization 2.0
Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor are two of our resident WAN optimization experts, frequently sharing their insight in the Wide Area Networking Alert newsletter. In a recent conversation, the dynamic duo shared some great insight on...
Virtualization management steppingstones
Little by little, management tool vendors are getting better at providing the ability to manage the virtual server infrastructure. HP, for example, has renewed efforts to develop software for managing VMware hypervisor technology. In...
When technology needs to take a back seat
As technologists, the last things you probably want to deal with are people and processes. But if you’re trying to optimize application delivery, then an organizational overhaul most likely will be required. Michael Morris, a...
Cisco’s contrarian view of how to manage the virtual data center
Cisco would like to control the virtual infrastructure via products that automatically provision, manage and optimize virtual environments. Through its VFrame data center appliance, for example, it proposes a way of pulling together...
Storage-as-a-service is hot
In a data center strategies briefing earlier this year, Burton Group analysts shared their thoughts on technology’s biggest up-and-coming trends. On the storage front, one of the trends noted by analyst Gene Ruth was the growing...
No flash in the pan ...
... or at least that's what EMC is hoping for its enterprise-class flash drive technology. CEO Joe Tucci touted its Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) technology at EMC World this week, even saying the advent of flash technology will...
Cloud storage – worth a look-see
The notion of storing data in an Internet cloud should be pretty exciting for any Web business – especially for any Web business that isn’t also a storage expert. That’s because cloud-storage providers can relieve the storage burden...
Data-center energy consumption: Worse than we thought?
By now we’ve all heard about the looming data-center power problem. But do we truly understand just what it we’re facing? Perhaps not really, contends Ken Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute, a widely respected...
