Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Friday, November 18, 2011
As the march toward virtualization starts to extend past server and storage infrastructure, a lot of IT organizations are starting to look at the number of databases they have to manage as the next great opportunity to reduce costs. Continue Reading »
Networking | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Thanks to the proliferation of virtual machines, a lot of IT architectures are out of balance. Not only are the servers that run all these virtual machines becoming starved for memory, the bandwidth that these virtual machines are consuming on the network is steadily increasing. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, September 28, 2011
With multiple applications now starting to routinely share access to the same storage, performance issues have started to dog both virtualization and private cloud computing deployments. And, as is often the case across the history of IT, new technologies have suddenly emerged to address the problem. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Tuesday, September 27, 2011
There was an interesting “mind meld” announced at the Intel Developer Forum 2011 conference a few weeks ago. During the event, held in conjunction with the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), Frank Frankovsky, director of technical operations at Facebook, came onto the stage and announced that Facebook’s Open Compute Project would be collaborating with the ODCA to accelerate the development and adoption of cloud computing standards. Continue Reading »
