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Big Iron Mainframes Versus x86 Servers: What You Need to Know

Big Iron Mainframes Versus x86 Servers: What You Need to Know by Jeffrey Burt Five Advantages of Distributed Environments Acquisition Costs Some low-end x86 servers can be had...

NetApp, QLogic Combine for FCOE Storage Configuration

NetApp and QLogic on Aug. 11 announced a partnership that will provide a new end-to-end 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage infrastructure based on the rapidly...

Researchers Boot Million Linux Kernels to Help Botnet Research

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are harnessing more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines as part of an effort to aid researchers...

How to Recycle Virtualization Resources for Better Data Center Optimization

IT organizations struggle with operating at an optimal resource utilization state. When IT resources are underutilized, they cannot artificially create demand to maximize their...

Riverbed Offers Virtualized WAN Optimization Management

Weeks after rolling out a virtualized version of its Steelhead Mobile Controller appliance, Riverbed Technology is offering managed service providers an easier way to...

Numonyx CTO Lays Out Road Map for Phase-Change Memory

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Numonyx CTO Ed Doller laid out the differences in latencies between spinning disk hard drives, solid-state NAND flash drives and phase-change memory...

VMware and SpringSource: It’s All About the Cloud, Baby

Though Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner most of the headlines on Aug. 10, the bigger story for the enterprise was easily VMware's...

Penguin Offers Cloud Computing for HPC

Penguin Computing is creating a cloud environment specifically for the high-performance computing space.Penguin Aug. 11 announced its POD (Penguin on Demand) service that is...

VMware to Get Java Web Developer SpringSource for $362M

VMware will suddenly become a lot more "application aware," according to President and CEO Paul Maritz, when it incorporates Web application developer SpringSource in...

Permabit Unveils New Cloud Storage Package for ISPs

Permabit Technology, which specializes in highly scalable, tiered storage appliances for large enterprises, Aug. 10 introduced a new version of its software/hardware package aimed...