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Brian Garrett, vice-president covering server, storage, data management and security at the Enterprise Strategy Group’s ESG Lab, said the FCoE integration aims to provide a path forward for IT shops that have already placed a “big bet” on fibre channel storage.
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DNSSEC is nothing new. The initial RFC was written in 1997 and the first specification was published in 1999. In spite of these efforts, secure DNS languished during the early 2000s as it wasn't a requirement for most organizations.
Things have changed, however. DNS security has been called ...
Sending large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. Unfortunately, it's also necessary for a myriad of IT functions including remote office backup, outsourcing, data center moves, and cloud computing models. Increasingly cost sensitive business models are forcing more and more companies to find ways to ...
This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. Coraid’s EtherDrive SAN storage family leverages scale-out design and raw Ethernet to deliver an impressive blend of performance, scalability, and simplicity at a price point that is a ...
Is cloud computing real? Yes. When you sort through the hype and evaluate collective industry R&D efforts, cloud computing options may arrive sooner than most believe. In fact, smart CIOs are already assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each workload should run—locally or in the ...
The latest iPhone commercials feature video calls and multiple couples sharing intimate moments. When describing Google Android, wireless carrier Sprint talks about, “the apps you crave.” Microsoft’s latest pitch is that Windows Mobile phones fold neatly into social networking.
There are a few common themes here. Each vendor ...
As scale-up technologies makes way for scale-out, Fibre Channel makes way for Ethernet, and block structured data makes way for file, edge-to-core network traffic is rapidly becoming edge-to-edge. As such, network architectures are also adopting a scale-out approach, moving network intelligence to the edge.
Overview
Computer hardware used to be an expensive ...
Scale-out storage—also called horizontal scaling—differs from scale-up storage, but vendor messaging can often leave users confused about the differences between the two. Each scaling methodology has its own place in managing today’s complex storage environments and needs to be understood. Sometimes, a combination of the two can yield optimal benefits ...
Some random thoughts on some coming wars.
IBM–has been too quiet during the downturn economically but now seems intent on changing that. They are diligently working to develop messaging that works–to tell the world what they are and what they want to be. They do great at high-end ...
Networked storage is being deployed in conjunction with server virtualization by a growing number of organizations interested in consolidation, reduced costs, and improved flexibility and availability of mission-critical applications including databases and e-mail. ESG research indicates that IT managers looking to reap the benefits of server and storage consolidation are ...
