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De-dupe’s Fork in the Road: Grid vs. Fixed Controller
January 12th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
MARC CRESPI
ExaGrid

Marc Crespi of ExaGrid explains the key differences to keep in mind when comparing disk backup architectures. Read More
Notes from Gartner: The Value of Monitoring
January 10th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
JAMES SIVIS
Circonus

Gartner conference attendees’ pressing interest this year was beyond the "shiny new" topics, but were more day-to-day challenges: avoiding IT outages and increasing speed of service recovery, along with monitoring, as related by James Sivis of Circonus. Read More
Bandwidth Management, Cloud & the 405 Freeway
January 6th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives

Bob Duestche of Intel continues his discussion of cloud computing principles with consideration of networks and bandwidth, asserting bandwidth and data transmission may not always be as inexpensive and unencumbered as they are today. Read More
CIO Roles Shifting in Emerging Cloud Landscape
January 4th, 2012 : Industry Perspectives
BRYAN DOERR
Savvis/CenturyLink

Bryan Doerr, of Savvis/CenturyLink, writes that the current swirl of activity in IT means for the role of the CIO as orchestrator of the overall corporate application portfolio is changing. Read More
Bringing Global HFT Data Centers Up to Speed
December 21st, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
BRANDON LEE, NTT

From New York to London to Tokyo, the hot buzz words “High Frequency Trading (HFT)” and “algorithmic trading” have been making their rounds on the world’s largest stock exchanges. They have revolutionized the way deals are made and this fast-growing HFT trend is expected to gain ground in Asia in the next few years. Brandon Lee of NTT writes about a new financially focused data centre facility which is being built in Hong Kong. Read More
Keeping Cloud Workloads on the Right Flight Path
December 20th, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
BILLY COX
Intel

Billy Cox, of Intel, describes the way workloads are managed through large cloud environments, including some areas where Intel is collaborating with the Open Stack community. Read More
Is Your Network WAN Optimization Really Helping?
December 16th, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
DAVID SWENSON
Infineta Systems

David Swenson, of Infineta, describes the compound effect, a measure of the combined effects of both reduction and acceleration, when optimizing Wide Area Networks (WANs). Read More
Tips for Simplifying Your Cloud Network
December 14th, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
BRIAN YOSHINAKA
Intel

Any data center, cloud or otherwise, depends on its Ethernet network to allow servers, storage systems and other devices to talk to each other. No network means no data center, writes Brian Yoshinaka of Intel. Read More
Cloud Policy: Where Ideals Meet Reality, Part 2
December 8th, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
BOB DEUTSCHE
Intel

Technology-driven business practices often circumvent government regulations, but legal and government policy standards will dictate the cloud’s success - this is a fundamental truth of cloud computing, according to Bob Deutsche of Intel. He elaborates on major global government cloud policy initiatives that you or your cloud provider should consider. Read More