Data Center Consolidation
Published on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 1:37 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Cisco recently unveiled its next-generation Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions, delivering a significant upgrade over its previous versions. The improvements address the demand for a WAN solution capable of scaling to deliver web-based software applications and rich media content across networks with improved performance. In order to realize market ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Perry Laberis |
Last summer, President Obama wrote a memo halting new data center construction and ordering organizations to create plans to consolidate data centers. Earlier this month, the US CIO released a report on the federal government's cloud strategy. Boiling it down to a Microsoft ad slogan, the government''s strategy is "To ...
Governments are very much like large enterprises–they provide services like education, health care and security to citizens with their revenue coming from taxes. Citizens are the customers and also the shareholders of the government.
If the government is inefficient, all citizens pay–both as customers, paying high prices for ...
QLogic is rolling out its third generation CNA alongside its 10GbE adaptor and converged LOM (cLOM) chip. This is the first implementation of QLogic’s Adaptive Convergence strategy, which is aimed at accelerating the adoption of converged networking technology for virtualized environments.
Overview
QLogic recently announced availability of its third generation converged networking ...
I wish we could do an audio blog here. I’d be playing Billy Joel in the background. “Movin’ Out” was one of the first tapes I literally wore out and broke in my cassette deck – see Wiki for definition of “cassette deck” if you are under ...
Data center consolidation continues to be a hot topic for IT in both the private and public sectors. As I noted previously, HP is going to consolidate its acquired EDS data centers after just finishing a major effort to reduce its own data centers from more than 80 down to ...
ESG Research indicates widespread IT spending on data center transformation, IT consolidation, and server virtualization. This will help reduce costs and streamline operations, right? Yes, in theory, but many IT consolidation projects suffer through planning and implementation issues that ultimately impact application performance and user productivity—especially for remote ...
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report: Data Center Consolidation and Construction Trends.
Click here for the PowerPoint slide.
Click here for the ESG Research Report: Data Center Consolidation and Construction Trends.
Research Data Points:
Data Center Construction Plans, by Business Initiatives Impacting IT Spending Decisions 
