2010 marked a change in the virtualization landscape as the big players saw an untapped market in the small and medium-business (SMB) space. The coming year will mark the turning point for SMBs, as there is an...
Mike Elms, from Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd, looks at how UPS vendors are responding to challenges cited by customers and suggests ways in which users can implement a configuration best suited to current...
True innovation goes beyond the obvious improvements or natural evolution of a product or technology. Due to its large share of total data center energy use, cooling system innovation is a requirement of staying in...
WAN Virtualization, which promises to revolutionize the economics of the enterprise WAN, will cut costs for businesses to deploy virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), VoIP, videoconferencing, private clouds, and...
The current logjam in storage is a result of the separation of primary storage and backup. Rethinking storage has resulted in innovations in architecture and appliances.
Tape-based data protection is less useful and sometimes problematic, as IT environments are becoming increasingly virutalized. Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), which have multiple benefits, are being introduced as a...
Pharmaceutical companies are finding that cloud computing is meeting their needs for massive computing power that is scaleable as well as for quick turnaround in deploying infrastructure.
Using a converged network for storage and non storage traffic can be challenging, but those challenges are worth addressing. If handled properly, convergence can rapidly produce a substantial return on the investment.
While the strategic importance of IT professionals has grown, that doesn't mean it will remain static. Those in the data center industry must expect changing roles and remain flexible.