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Cisco Nexus 7000 aims for data center dominance
Building a big data center and looking for a switch to match? How do 256 10G Ethernet ports and nearly 1.7 terabits of capacity
sound?
Wireless LANs face huge scaling challenges
Wireless LANs are facing big scaling challenges as the number of clients and the multimedia content they consume surges, according
to network professionals. Universities are seeing evidence of this in a big way.
VMware edges out Microsoft in virtualization performance test
With the recent release of Microsoft's Hyper-V shaking up the hypervisor market, we decided to conduct a two-part evaluation
pitting virtualization vendors against each other on performance as well as on features such as usability, management and
migration.
Securing virtualized data centers
While server virtualization increases operational efficiencies, management flexibility and reduces total cost of ownership,
it can also increase security risks.
Cheaters: Inside the hidden world of IT certification fraud
For the first time ever, companies that develop and administer IT certification exams are working together to combat a problem
that has largely been swept under the rug for years: certification fraud.
Making a Power Play
EBSCO Publishing is exploring all avenues that lead to green, from solar, wind and hydro to blades, virtualization and effective
data center design.
Green IT is just good business
Saving on energy costs is obviously a good thing, but to Larry Quinlan, CIO at the consulting firm Deloitte LLP, green IT
simply makes good business sense. "If you run green IT right, you will end up with a vastly superior IT organization," Quinlan
said during his keynote address at the recent Network World IT Roadmap event in Atlanta, in which he described green IT as
one of five technologies that will change IT. From reducing demand for IT resources to thin laptops, Quinlan has no shortage
of ideas on how to make green IT deliver on multiple fronts.
Banks mining cash from their computer gear
In another sign of a tight economy, even those that have the money are getting creative with their IT resources in order to
find a little financial wiggle room.
Cisco strengthens UC story with PostPath buy
Cisco is putting up $215 million for PostPath so it can include the company's e-mail and calendaring software in Cisco’s upcoming
collaboration service, WebEx Connect. But the software could also become a component in a unified communications bundle that
businesses buy outright, industry observers say.
Microsoft virtualization tools reinforce user's data center plans
Hosting provider RackForce Networks expects that Microsoft's just released Hyper-V virtualization technology will give it
a chance to take a major step in its business strategy.
Storage market thrives in down economy
Worldwide disk storage shipments will double in capacity every two years through 2012, IDC predicts.
Alcatel-Lucent intros Gigabit Ethernet switches
Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its architecture for blending data, voice
and wireless connectivity and are designed for small and medium businesses.
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