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Infrastructure ArchiveApril 8, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:03 AM/EST
Evolving Data Center ConvergenceMore than a few IT people have been wondering how companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun and IBM would eventually respond the concept of a unified fabric that Cisco has been promoting as a vehicle for unifying computational and network... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureMarch 30, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009 12:14 PM/EST
The Trouble with VirtualizationGiven the fact that one of the major benefits of virtualization is that it increases utilization rates of existing servers, you can't help but wonder why all the server vendors spend so much time and money promoting virtualization. After... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureMarch 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:29 AM/EST
A Matter of Philosophical Data Center DifferencesIn recent weeks we have seen Cisco start advocating more aggressively a unified approach to enterprise computing in the data center that sees to combine servers, storage and networking under a common management system. Now we have a startup... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureMarch 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:47 AM/EST
The Next Great War for the Data CenterFirst we heard the sounds of the drum as the major vendors selling equipment into the data center prepared for war. Now we can see the various factions starting to enter the field of battle following Cisco's launch of... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureMarch 9, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009 12:13 PM/EST
Trying to Cause a Ruckus in Wireless NetworksOne of the more time consuming activities in IT is the pulling of cables to expand the network backbone of the company. No matter what the state of the economy, pulling is cable is an expensive, time-consuming proposition that... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureMarch 2, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009 11:33 AM/EST
The Missing Data Center Consolidation LinkFor want of a nail, the battle is frequently lost. A lot of IT organizations are having that exact feeling about 10 Gigabit Ethernet when it comes to data center consolidation. With the rise of blade servers and virtualization,... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureFebruary 24, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:12 PM/EST
Drums along the Data CenterIn the days of yore before a major battle commenced, the first sound the combatants would hear is the distant rumbling of the drums. As the time of battle drew closer, the sounds of the drum would grow louder... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureFebruary 11, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:04 AM/EST
Virtual Desktop Fragmentation LoomsWhile virtual desktop infrastructure offers a lot of potential in terms of lowering IT costs, one of the more troubling aspects about it is the simple fact that it introduces more fragmentation on the desktop. Instead of having a... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of InfrastructureFebruary 5, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:28 AM/EST
Command and Application ControlBack in the heady days of the economy nobody tended to look too hard at what end users were doing with their PCs. But in an economy where every nickel counts, the time has come for IT organizations to... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of Enterprise Applications
Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:03 AM/EST
Rich and Thin Clients Come of AgeIn the history of enterprise computing it was always assumed that you could never be rich and thin. If you went with a thin client approach, you inevitably sacrificed any type of rich user experience for users because network... Read more... | Comment | del.icio.us | digg.com | View all of Infrastructure |
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