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Best Of Interop 2014 Winners Unveiled
April 01, 2014 09:30 PM The Best of Interop award recognizes innovation in nine categories, including networking, storage, cloud, and security.
Behind The Scenes Building The InteropNet
February 12, 2014 10:05 PM Network engineers are busy preparing the network infrastructure for the multi-vendor InteropNet that will support the upcoming Interop conference. Preview the action in our video.
Your Storage Questions Answered Live On Thursday
January 29, 2014 02:57 PM Join us for a special Interop Preview edition of E2 Radio at 2:00 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. PST) on Thursday, January 30, when we'll talk with Howard Marks, storage expert and longtime Network Computing contributor.
Box Reportedly Agrees To Run Data Centers On Renewable Energy
November 11, 2013 11:44 AM Cloud file sharing service appears to follow Google and Apple in committing to renewable energy sources for its data centers.
Software-Defined Storage Startups Win Funding
November 08, 2013 03:10 PM Primary Data and Coho Data garner substantial financing, but software-defined storage remains more hype than reality.
Commentary
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All-Flash Arrays: The VDI Solution?
The huge performance provided by all-flash arrays is a boon for virtual desktop infrastructure, but don't be fooled by unrealistic calculations.
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Converged Infrastructure: 3 Considerations
If you're looking at a converged platform as a way to increase data center efficiency, here are three factors to keep in mind.
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Is RAID Fading Into The Sunset?
With the arrival of faster networks and SSDs, RAID can no longer keep up. Data protection alternatives such as replication and erasure codes are gaining traction.
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NVMe Poised To Revolutionize Solid-State Storage
Move over SAS and SATA. A new standard ramps up SSD performance with a radical new approach to storage I/O handling.
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The Software-Defined Data Center: Potential Game Changer
The SDDC is poised to bring revolutionary changes by providing flexibility to data center storage, switching, security and other infrastructure components.
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Why The Next-Generation Data Center Needs To Be Agnostic
In order to handle the growing traffic deluge, data centers need to leverage open infrastructure, software-defined technologies, and automation.
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Research: 2014 State of Server Technology
Buying power and influence are rapidly shifting to service providers. Where does that leave enterprise IT? Not at the cutting edge, that’s for sure: Only 19% are increasing both the number and capability of servers, budgets are level or down for 60% and just 12% are using new micro technology.Get full survey results now! »
Vendor Turf Wars
The enterprise tech market used to be an orderly place, where vendors had clearly defined markets. No more. Driven both by increasing complexity and Wall Street demands for growth, big vendors are duking it out for primacy -- and refusing to work together for IT's benefit. Must we now pick a side, or is neutrality an option?Get the Digital Issue »
WEBCAST: Software Defined Networking (SDN) First Steps
Software defined networking encompasses several emerging technologies that bring programmable interfaces to data center networks and promise to make networks more observable and automated, as well as better suited to the specific needs of large virtualized data centers. Attend this webcast to learn the overall concept of SDN and its benefits, describe the different conceptual approaches to SDN, and examine the various technologies, both proprietary and open source, that are emerging.
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