The University of Chicago Lab Schools had to abandon its Apple server infrastructure; here’s how it launched a virtualized environment and cut its server count in half.
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From Apple to VMware: The Lab Schools’ Virtualized Environment
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Is Intel’s Romley for You? Getting the Most Out of the Xeon E5-2600
Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 supports PCIe 3.0. The increase in performance can substantial, but it can also be lost if I/O peripherals aren’t up to the task. Here are the details on the new Romley chips and how to best take advantage of them.
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Coraid Aims to Address Cloud, Video and More with ZX-Series
Coraid builds on its Ethernet-based SAN products with the recently released ZX-Series.
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VMware Buys Nicira: Validates Software-Defined Networking as Strategy
VMware makes a strong move into network virtualization, but at what cost to its relationship with Cisco? We take a look at VMware’s latest move toward a software-defined data center.
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VMware Finally Gets a Network Strategy
After some ill-fated attempts, VMware has left private cloud networking to its partner Cisco. By purchasing Nicira, the company regains control of its virtual network strategy in a big way.
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Four Tips for Monitoring Bandwidth Usage During the Olympic Games
Has the U.S. Olympic team’s success put added pressure on your network? Learn how Web-monitoring tools and packet shaping can help enterprises monitor bandwidth usage.
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Leap Motion Overwhelmed By Developer Response
It seems like we can expect amazing things from the Leap when it launches next year. Leap Motion reports that it has been flooded with requests for developer units, and an impressive assortment of unique and innovative applications for the motion-sensing device.
A few months ago Leap Motion revealed the Leap–a device that lets you interact with a computer using motion and hand gestures. It is similar in function to the Microsoft Kinect, but the precision claimed by Leap Motion makes the Kinect seem like trying to tie your shoes while wearing oven mitts.
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HP Brings Just-in-Time Discovery to Cloud Computing
HP’s Configuration Management System 10 provides enterprises with a better view of logical and physical dependencies in the data center to improve management and scaling of cloud services.
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Proximal Unveils First SSD Cache for VMware’s vSphere
To date, server-side SSD caching products include drivers for Windows or Linux. Proximal now supports the hypervisor directly, allowing features like vMotion and Live Migration to work as intended.
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SSDs and Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
In the first of a three-part series, Howard Marks describes how storage system throughput is a bad indicator of performance and how SSDs can vastly improve performance, even for entry-level storage systems.
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