Virtualization | Blog Post | Arthur Cole Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Aside from the obvious benefits of increased flexibility, simplified management and reduced hardware requirements, what are some of the other ways to differentiate between the growing legion of unified platforms hitting the channel? Continue Reading »
Data Center Networking | Guest Opinion | Steve Mackey Monday, August 23, 2010
IT managers in most midrange data centers typically have limited staff and few backup specialists, and it can be hard to figure out how deduplication might fit into their situation. Continue Reading »
Data Center Networking | Interview | Arthur Cole Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Disaster recovery was never the easiest proposition for IT managers. But lately it seems the complexity has increased by orders of magnitude as systems attempt to fend off every conceivable threat to the enterprise. Continue Reading »
Hardware | Blog Post | Arthur Cole Monday, July 26, 2010
Tape storage will be around for quite a while longer even as disk and solid-state drives make greater inroads into the various storage tiers. Continue Reading »
Virtualization | Blog Post | Arthur Cole Friday, July 9, 2010
The benefits of storage virtualization are becoming clearer by the day as more and more enterprises find that virtualization in general is only truly effective if applied to the data center as a whole. Continue Reading »
Bringing together the facts on hardware -- and increasingly, virtualized environments -- power supplies, security, networking, and the cooling and environmental controls that have become the star of company-wide energy-saving initiatives