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  • Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric

    Posted February 15, 2012 - 7:36 pm

    R.K. Anand, executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks' Data Center Business Unit, was employee No. 12 of the network startup back in 1996, leaving a job as a microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems. Years later he left Juniper for a brief stint at another startup, but came back to help finalize the company's QFabric product and get it out the door. QFabric began shipping in September 2011. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Anand at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a deep dive on the company's answer to high-end data center demands.

  • Unable to keep up with its own success, AT&T blames customers for poor service

    Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:53 pm

    There is some justification to carriers' excuses about the data hoggery of smartphones: smartphones are data hogs, at least compared to dumb phones. AT&T goes further, bragging it signed up record numbers of users, then complaining they actually use the network.

  • White Paper

    ESG ~ HP StoreOnce: the Next Wave of Data Deduplication

    Posted February 15, 2012 - 8:53 am

    Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. For some organizations, it allows disk-based backup-and, importantly, recovery-to be extended to additional workloads in the environment. For others, deduplication makes it possible to introduce disk-based backup where it may not have been feasible before.

  • White Paper

    HP Converged Storage Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing

    Posted February 15, 2012 - 8:50 am

    Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.

  • HP, Intel rethink processor upgrades in servers

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 9:00 pm

    Hewlett-Packard and Intel are rethinking processor upgrades in servers, coming up with a new chip-slotting technique that could reduce the chance of errors, and ultimately prevent system failure.

  • HP to make ARM servers available for testing in Q2

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 6:13 pm

    Hewlett-Packard will open a lab in the second quarter where select customers will be able to play around with its first low-power server based on an ARM processor, a company executive said this week.

  • Question

    What can be done to control noise levels in data centers?

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 9:53 am

    The sound level in our data center is so high that it interferes with conversation, not to mention concentration. The decibel level has been periodically checked using sound meters, and the highest we have recorded was 81 decibels, less than the 85 decibel level that would trigger OSHA restrictions.

  • White Paper

    Business Value of Blade

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

    The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.

  • White Paper

    HP CloudSystem Matrix: Managing at a Higher Level

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

    This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint. In addition, it introduces the concept of a service-oriented and automated approach to IT management.

  • White Paper

    Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center - IDC-HP White Paper

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

    One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

  • White Paper

    Five Myths of Cloud Computing

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

    Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity among the IT industry. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing the best cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing is and the benefits it can bring to their organization.

  • White Paper

    The Best Way to Build a Cloud

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

  • White Paper

    HP CloudSystem Matrix: Building a Private Cloud

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

    Cloud computing continues to grow in popularity among the IT industry. And more businesses are advertising that they are the front runner for providing the best cloud services. However, in this race to remain top dog, IT pros remain unsure of what cloud computing is and the benefits it can bring to their organization.

  • Sony shows power outlets that can control electricity by user, device, or source

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 6:55 am

    Sony is developing electric wall sockets and plugs that can control power consumption by appliance, user or original power source.

  • HP to release server management apps for iOS, Android

    Posted February 14, 2012 - 1:04 am

    Hewlett-Packard will be showing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple's iOS and Google's Android that will allow system administrators to remotely control and configure servers, the company said on Monday.

  • Intel’s 10G 'Romley' server to spur Ethernet switch growth

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 5:28 pm

    When Intel ships its long-awaited 10G-enabled server platform later this quarter, it's expected to have a significant impact on the Ethernet switching market.

  • Video

    1984 video on microprocessors shows early mobile phones in action

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

    The AT&T Tech Archives are the gift that keeps on giving. After last week's video showcasing the Infoquest center, the team over there are adding new videos based on those shown at the exhibit.

  • HP's new x86 servers attack management, power costs

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:15 pm

    Hewlett-Packard's new x86 server line generation, announced Monday, aims to wring out as much management overhead as possible through automation and improved energy management.

  • HP hopes to cut data center costs with new Gen8 servers

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:04 pm

    Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced Gen8, its next generation of servers, which integrate new technologies designed to cut overall maintenance and power costs in data centers while maintaining high server uptimes.

  • New modular solar towers promise easy green power

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:34 am

    Each year, green fuels and energy grow more popular as the technology becomes more efficient and less expensive. Just earlier this week, AORA unveiled a new CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) system in southern Spain.

  • Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:26 am

    Hadoop is coming out of the shadows and into production in enterprise IT shops. But the relative newness of the open-source platform and a shortage of experienced Hadoop talent pose hurdles that enterprise IT teams need to address as they advance deeper into the world of Hadoop.

  • Startup launches array tuned for unstructured, structured data

    Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:15 am

    Startup Starboard Storage Systems came out of quiet mode with its first product: a storage array that discerns between structured and unstructured data in order to tailor I/O performance. It's also targeted at virtualized server environments.

  • Review

    Hands on: HP's Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance

    Posted February 10, 2012 - 12:47 pm

    If you're like most enterprises, you have data everywhere. It's in line-of-business applications. It's in directories. It's in various departmental servers. It's in your e-commerce platform. To manage all this, most shops use databases of all sizes running on a variety of operating systems and database applications, often from different vendors and editions. Chances are, they're not consistent.

  • White Paper

    AppAssure vs Backup Exec

    Posted February 10, 2012 - 10:23 am

    In this new Lab Report, openBench Labs examines AppAssure backup and replication software v4.7 with Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2. AppAssure implements changed-block tracking technology to provide data protection for both virtual and physical servers in specific OS environments. In contrast, Backup Exec 2010 R2 uses traditional file-based backup to promote compatibility with the largest number of operating systems.

  • White Paper

    AppAssure vs Acronis

    Posted February 10, 2012 - 10:23 am

    In this study of data protection for environments with virtual and physical servers running Windows, openBench Labs tested AppAssure Backup and Replication software v 4.7 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11. Both solutions utilize block-based technology to unify data protection operations.
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ESG ~ HP StoreOnce: the Next Wave of Data Deduplication

Leveraging deduplication in backup environments yields significant advantages. The cost savings in reducing disk capacity requirements change the economics of disk-based backup. For some organizations, it allows disk-based backup-and, importantly, recovery-to be extended to additional workloads in the environment. For others, deduplication makes it possible to introduce disk-based backup where it may not have been feasible before.

White Paper

HP Converged Storage Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing

Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years - with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.

White Paper

Business Value of Blade

The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.

White Paper

Measuring the Business Value of CI in the Data Center - IDC-HP White Paper

One of the key strategies that IT teams are pursuing to reduce capital costs while boosting asset utilization and employee productivity is the transition to highly virtualized data centers. However, IDC finds that expectations for further boosts in IT asset use and operational efficiency often surpass the actual results for a variety of reasons. These problems can quickly overwhelm any hoped-for benefits as the scope of virtual server deployment expands.

White Paper

HP CloudSystem Matrix: Managing at a Higher Level

This white paper examines IT management challenges from a fundamental and system standpoint. In addition, it introduces the concept of a service-oriented and automated approach to IT management.

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