ANDOVER, Mass. -- If you're an enterprise data center manager, saving money on power and cooling plays a role in your company's bottom line. But if you're a data center hosting company, reducing data center costs is your bottom line. That's the ...
SOUTHBURY, Conn. -- If you had a blank check, access to IBM's latest products and its best talent, and your task was to renovate a 2,000-square-foot legacy data center, the result would be IBM's sparkling showcase in Southbury, Conn. Enterprise data ...
USGA signs on with Big Blue for disaster recovery services Business resiliency was the main driver for the United States Golf Association when it recently chose the IBM cloud for e-mail and data protection services. Jessica Carroll, managing director ...
The human resources people at Microsoft were somewhat taken aback when the city of Carlsbad, Calif., started grilling them on what types of background checks Microsoft performs on its own employees. But Gordon Peterson, director of IT for the seaside ...
In 2001, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches were introduced, the average per-port cost was $39,000, according to IDC. Today, a 10G Ethernet port costs less than $4,000, which makes 10G Ethernet switches affordable for the enterprise wiring closet or ...
Unified communications is one of those technologies that's seemingly forever been on the verge of exploding but has never really become hot. Maybe the reason is that the term "unified communications" means different things to different people. To the ...
In today's world of mobile workers, teleworkers, thumb drives, BlackBerries and social-networking sites, IT executives can't worry about devices - they need to focus on protecting data wherever it is. Software vendors and such open source projects as ...
VMware, which created x86 server virtualization and is the dominant player in the market, is absolutely on fire. When EMC bought the company in 2003, VMware revenues were around $100 million a year. VMware’s final numbers for 2007 aren't out yet, but ...
There is no topic hotter than global warming. After all, Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in raising awareness, his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar, and terms like "carbon footprint" are now part of the common lexicon. So ...
ISCSI runs over plain, old Ethernet, which means you don’t need a separate Fibre Channel network. You don’t need host bus adapters. You don’t need Fibre Channel switches. You don’t need specialized IT staffers. Bottom line: An iSCSI SAN is less ...
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