Data Center

Kaiser, VA Join to Give E-health Efforts a Boost

Incentives in the stimulus bill are also expected to foster a rapid spread of e-health records.

Haiti relief effort draws overwhelming flood of tech-trained volunteers

Aid agency says new volunteers need too much training to help in Haiti now

Oracle-Sun merger foes head East

MySQL separatists address Russia and China as EU assent on the deal grows likely

Apple sets Jan. 27 event to show ‘our next creation’

Company remains mum on details

Arista, Blade win top spot in data center switch test

Grueling performance testing exposes weaknesses in Cisco, HP switches

Storage/data convergence: Cisco stands alone

Most vendors have at least some virtualization features, including support for virtual switches

Management and usability: Extreme goes its own way

Power consumption: Blade is most efficient

Latency and jitter: Cut-through design pays off for Arista, Blade

Link aggregation: Arista, Blade and Cisco fare best

Multicast group capacity: Extreme comes out on top

Multicast join/leave delay: Arista and Dell are swell