Archive for March, 2011
There are a lot of organizations championing various causes that seek to influence their chosen issue through activism. There’s no red ribbon or yellow rubber bracelet here … just a shout-out to not be an “April Fool.” There’s a grass roots movement at the social news site ...
Cisco made a big splash announcement this week, covering most of the continents of the IT world. If you want to quickly assimilate the essence (and pretty much everyone is touched by Cisco one way or another) then read a great blog that my colleague Jon Oltsik wrote ...
With never-ending data growth impacting data protection, IT struggles to put together solutions that will properly meet the objectives set out by management for backup and recovery and disaster recovery. For years, backup and disaster recovery strategies were mutually exclusive and often managed by separate groups entirely. While there can ...
I met with some security professional friends last night for ribs, beers, and lively security chatter. One of our discussion points was about the organizational position and role of the CISO.
Most CISOs in both the public and private sectors report to the IT department, typically to the ...
After World War II, most of Europe needed to be completely rebuilt. Rather than repeat the mistakes of Versailles, the State Department developed what came to be known as the Marshall Plan. While Japan was not included in the original scope of the Marshall Plan, it was ...
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the IBM Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System with a focus on the powerful enterprise-class features and functionality offered by the platform, including heterogeneous storage virtualization, thin provisioning, data mobility, and capacity-efficient point-in-time snapshots. Testing was designed to confirm IBM’s ...
Cisco announced its intention to purchase newScale this week. Most would consider this a good thing. I do. Why? newScale is one of those companies that has been quietly building and defining the service catalog space for the last 10+ years and now at last finds ...
The server virtualization train has left the station—large and small organizations are virtualizing production workloads as quickly as they can. Regrettably, security has remained an afterthought. CISOs understand which security safeguards are needed for physical servers, but they lack the skills, best practices, and tools to apply the same control ...
Lots of technology vendors have been poking at Cisco lately with new technologies, architectures, and even out-and-out badmouthing (didn’t one CEO say that his company would “kick Cisco’s butt?”). Well Cisco fired back today with a soup-to-nuts data center announcement covering virtual servers, physical servers, Ethernet ...
"When you take switches, cabling and adapters into account, FCoE is 33 percent cheaper to deploy than traditional networks and holds the promise of 50 percent savings on power and cooling," said Bob Laliberte, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
via FCoE Struggles to Gain Traction — EnterpriseStorageForum.com.
