The vendor’s latest offerings are aimed at helping enterprises increase performance and capacity as needed to scale up or scale out storage, while efficiently making use of flash and disk in a clustered environment.
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Nimble’s ‘Scale to Fit’ Storage Architecture Can Scale Up or Scale Out
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The State of Server Technology: 2010 to 2012
As more companies turn to virtualization and private clouds, they’re also taking a look at the server technology in their data centers. This is leading to a boost for the server market. Find out why in this look at the state of server technology, from 2010 to 2012.
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Windows 8 ‘Metro’ Is Dead, But UI Still Needs a Name
Whatever the reason, “Metro” is out, and Microsoft is temporarily referring to the colorful, tiled interface of the impending flagship operating system as “Windows 8 Style UI”. That lacks flare, though, and isn’t exactly a name that captures the imagination. Microsoft needs something catchy to brand the unique interface and differentiate it from the desktop mode.
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Will Cloud UC Breathe New Life Into Unified Communications?
Unified communications (UC) didn’t really take off the way everyone figured it would. Will cloud UC succeed were its predecessors failed?
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VMware’s SDN Strategy Is No Threat to Cisco, Juniper or Anyone Else
VMware has purchased Nicira–but Cisco, HP and Juniper shouldn’t worry about the company’s SDN strategy. Find out why.
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Vendors Roll Out Mobile Security, Vulnerability and Forensics Tools
Mobile device management (MDM) is top of mind for many nowadays, so it’s not surprise that mobile security was a focus at Black Hat. Learn more about MDM products announced during the show, as well as new vulnerability management and forensics tools.
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EMC and VMware’s Leadership Shuffle: Beginning of the End?
VMware’s independence contributed greatly to its dominance. A tighter tie to EMC may spell bad news for IT pros.
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Inertech, Skanska Partner on Energy-Efficient Cooling Platform
A new coil technology helps the companies extend free cooling zone for data centers and reduces water and power consumption. Learn more about the cooling platform.
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HP, Cloudera Extend Hadoop Ties, Plan Appliance
Notch yet another partnership for Hadoop software and services provider Cloudera, as it announced Thursday a deal through which HP will resell the Cloudera Enterprise platform along with its hardware and an HP Hadoop appliance set for release in the fourth quarter.
Cloudera and HP were already partnered, but the agreement and coming appliance will make it easier for joint HP and Cloudera customers to get Hadoop clusters up and running quickly, according to executives at the two companies.
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The State of Data Storage Management: 2011 vs. 2012
In 2011, data storage management was all about centralization and consolidation. Now, the tide has turned to data reliability, security and performance. Learn why.
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