Now that Cisco seems to be making headway with its UCS offering, many best-in-breed suppliers are changing their strategies to combine networking, computing, storage and even software elements. Here's an overview of data center equipment suppliers...
Network news: Xsigo launches virtualized server fabric, Level 3 (LVLT) connects with Amazon AWS, Cisco (CSCO) selected by Charter Communications.
As America's largest companies begin to get a handle on their data center energy usage, they're widening their gaze to scrutinize the efficiency of their engineering labs.
Excerpts from our conversation with Jieming Zhu, distinguished technologist at HP StorageWorks, about HP's view of FCoE and the adoption of converged network technologies.
Cisco (CSCO) continues its push into the data center with the Nexus 5000 switch, a toolk for data center consolidation and virtualization via a unified network fabric.