Storage
The demand for storage never ebbs and companies like EMC and NetApp are poised to benefit. EMC is the largest storage player in the enterprise and has key consumer assets such as Iomega and Mozy. Storage touches everything from the data center to that iPod in your pocket. A key trend: Solid state drive adoption. Other key players: Seagate, Sandisk and Western Digital.
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Amazon leads the pack. Netflix is in a tailspin and Best Buy has a lot of catching up to do.
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Here a look at Smart Planet's 10 most popular videos, as clicked on and watched by our viewers.
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Other major threat predictions include new hacktivist groups, spam exploiting virtual currency and digital wallets, the circulation of fake rogue certificates, and the potential for a growing...
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The former GM of Windows Phone wonders why the mobile OS hasn't been a hit. He missed a few reasons like timing, peer pressure and issues like Android forks the user doesn't care about.
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Salesforce.com's head of platform research discusses the value of big data, the consumerization of IT, and how mobile devices should address collaboration concerns in 2012.
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How mobile affected the datacenter in 2011
Mobile might be one of the unheralded game changers for the datacenter in 2011. What do you think?
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Comments on NY Times Big Data article
The concept of Big Data is breaking through into the New York Times. The article only scratches the surface, however.
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How much availability is enough?
Virtualization technology offers many ways to increase application availability. Before installing anything, however, it is wise to consider how much availability is enough for each application.
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Virtualization and Business Uptime
I'm presenting at a workshop. You're welcome to register.
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StillSecure - jumping the gun on cloud security?
StillSecure's security products and services targeting mid-market cloud computing. The products seem useful and well-conceived, but have entered the market a bit too early.
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Do you really want a datacenter in your town?
The value of bringing a datacenter to your community may be easily offset by the trade-offs it takes to get a major vendor to commit to the idea.
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OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own
OwnCloud, a Linux-based program that enables you to set up your own personal cloud, is on its way to becoming a commercial program under former SUSE executive Markus Rex.
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Are there really 509,147 datacenters worldwide?
With over a half-million datacenters in operation worldwide, perhaps the emphasis on saving just a small amount of energy in each facility will eventually show significant economic results.
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How warm can you run your datacenter?
Intel wants you to start to consider running your datacenters almost 30 degrees warmer than you are running them now, citing the huge potential energy savings of such a move.
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Storage gifts for Christmas 2011
Shopping for the geek who has everything? More storage is always welcome. While disk drives are pricey this year due to the Thai floods, other storage products are in plentiful supply with lower...
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Efficient data center transformation requires tracking improvements incrementally
One way to keep the interest high -- and those operating and investment budgets in place -- is to show fast results, and then use that to prime the pump for even more improvement -- and even more...
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Introducing iWave and its new iWave Storage Director
iWave is coming out of the shadows of its OEM partners to present its technology directly to the market. iWave's Orchestrator and iWave Storage Director target heterogeneous data center and cloud...
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Google takes on Asia
Google announces that they've started building their first datacenter in Asia
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Red Hat moves into Big Data with Storage Software Appliance
Red Hat thinks that big data management and Linux can go together like peanut-butter and jelly with its release of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance.
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Buying into the cloud while supporting the past
Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies. The SAP SuccessFactors purchase may signal a new...
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IBM STG Analyst Forum Virtualization and Cloud "Deep Dive"
IBM's Systems and Technology Group (STG) is presenting an analyst forum up in lovely Ryebrook, NY. Yesterday afternoon's agenda offered several "deep dive" sessions with IBM's Distinguished...
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Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for December 2011
A must-read for those who build or repair PCs.
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Hello, I must be going
I'm off to an IBM analyst briefing.
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Photobucket moves to a new datacenter; a high-profile win for modular
Modular datacenters come to the fore with Photobucket's move.
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PCI Express 4.0 promises twice the bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0 -- in 2014 or 2015
PCI Express 3.0 is barely out the door, but that hasn't stopped the PCI-SIG consortium from unveiling the initial specs for PCI Express 4.0, which promises tons of bandwidth for graphics cards...
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