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Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic for IT in both the private and public sectors. As I noted previously, HP is going to consolidate its acquired EDS data centers after just finishing a major effort to reduce its own data centers from more than 80 down to 6. Not to mention that [...]
In a great example of practicing what you preach, HP is launching another Data Center consolidation initiative. This time it will involve the 180 odd data centers that were acquired when HP bought EDS. HP had just finished a major initiative that consolidated 85 data centers down to 6 highly efficient and automated data centers, [...]
Organizations have spent millions of dollars and years of effort to ensure the business can either continue operations or at the very least recover from a disaster in a timely manner. The majority of these efforts tend to be focused on implementing technology in multiple data centers across the state, country or globe so critical applications can [...]
For years, resource management has taken the form of enterprise software. Organizations have bought software licenses, purchased infrastructure to host it, and dedicated resources to install and manage it. As they added more functionality and became more sophisticated, they found it more difficult to extract the full value the software has to offer. In speaking with end-users [...]
FCoE has been on a fast track since its inception, going from concept to alpha, beta and now 2nd generation technology in a couple short years. This rapid evolution, while notable, and even impressive, is not enough to justify deploying a new technology. For enterprise data centers, the technology needs to be proven and supported by [...]
QLogic has expanded its OEM HP relationship to include stackable FC switches that are fully integrated with HP Simple SAN Connection Manager (SSCM). Combined with HP Servers and Storage, HP can now offer highly available, rapidly scalable end-to-end 8 Gb FC SAN solutions to support physical or virtualized server environments. This should place HP in [...]
Staples announced the launch of a new business-to-business division focused on supplying services to organizations of all sizes–from small and medium businesses up to the enterprise. For the most part, these services are focused on the small and medium business problems, although in some areas (like printer fleet management) they will play in the enterprise [...]
SolarWinds, an application and network management software company, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Texas based Tek-Tools, a leading independent provider of storage, virtualization, and backup management software for $42 million in cash and stock. This move is the latest in a long series of acquisitions of SRM and other infrastructure management companies over the [...]
Broadcom, after a failed bid to acquire Emulex, is now announcing the availability of a Converged Network Adaptor (CNA) card capable of supporting FCoE, iSCSI and 10 Gb Ethernet. So, now in addition to Brocade, Emulex, Intel and QLogic, we have Broadcom. I suppose it is only fair — Emulex and QLogic are expanding into the NIC [...]
Last week Cisco, EMC and VMware announced their commitment to bring best of breed technology together to accelerate the adoption of private clouds. The result of their work together is the vBlock. A combination of Cisco’s unified computing service, EMC array technology (DMX, CLARiiON & Celerra) and VMware ESX technology to create an internal cloud [...]
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