News roundup: Dell Active Fabric includes new switches and software; Array debuts four new ADCs; Palo Alto adds Android protection; BoxTone extends platform to manage ActiveSync.
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Dell Accelerates Network Fabric Deployment with New Software, Hardware
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Inside InteropNet’s Hot Stage
The hot stage lets the InteropNet team assemble and configure the hardware and software that powers Interop ahead of the conference itself. Team members test designs and work out bugs. Here’s an inside look.
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Why the Start button is Microsoft’s ‘New Coke’ moment
Companies make bad decisions all the time. Some of those decisions do irreparable harm, but others—like forcing users to boot to the new Modern interface in Windows 8, and taking away the Start button—can be reversed. Microsoft needs to ask whether it makes sense to backpedal.
There is new speculation that Windows 8.1, known as Windows “Blue,” will allow users to bypass the Modern interface and boot straight to desktop mode, complete with the Start button.
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Why PaaS Is The Future
The vast majority of Web applications will eventually run on platform-as-a-service, or PaaS. The shift will be slower than to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) because finding the perfect PaaS fit will take effort, and there’s significant loss of control over hardware and software. Many IT departments will resist. But it will happen, so to help you evaluate options and plan a migration strategy, we sent out a questionaire with more than 70 factors to consider to major PaaS providers. You can download a full set of responses at our InformationWeek PaaS comparison site.
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Merchant Silicon About to Get Smarter
The march to SDN designs has led many to think we’re entering an era of dumb switches. Instead, look for the commodity silicon to get a lot smarter.
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Data Center Security Spending Rises
Organizations that run their own data centers will spend an average of $ 17 million on security products this year, according to a new survey—an increase of more than $ 2 million.
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Microservers: The Legos of the Data Center
Microservers adopt the Lego model to transform the data center: You can build some amazing things when you pack a lot of small components into one place.
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May the Power Be With You
Companies such as Power Assure are helping data center operators uncover hidden capacity by accurately measuring energy consumption and finding ways to run systems more efficiently.
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Red Hat Enters OpenStack Rodeo
Red Hat has launched its own version of OpenStack at a time when surveys show many companies are interested in building out a private cloud. The free Red Hat Distribution OpenStack (RDO) may appeal to firms looking for a standardized approach, as well as lock-in avoidance in their cloud architecture.
That contrasts with building a private cloud from a virtualization vendor’s proprietary software, or copying the de facto standard of Amazon Web Services APIs through an implementation of Eucalyptus Systems code.
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Postcards from Tomorrow’s Data Centers
Today’s data centers are essentially the same: long rows of metal racks stocked with machines, miles of cable, and elaborate cooling systems. But just because we build data centers this way in 2013 doesn’t mean that’s how it will be in ten, twenty or fifty years. Here’s a few glimpses of what the future might hold, from printable electronics to nanotube processors to nuclear batteries.
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