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Cisco adds 40/100G Ethernet to switch range

Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.
Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.
Atlantis Computing announces new VDI using only server memory

Atlantis Computing is offering a software product that uses only server memory to run non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructures.
HP announces B6200 StoreOnce Backup System deduplication appliance

HP have announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance - the B6200 StoreOnce Backup System - that is capable of storing up to 768TB in a single chassis.
HP to switch Xeon chips for Itanium in some Integrity servers

HP has updated the road map for its high-end Integrity servers to include systems that can accommodate both Xeon and Itanium-based servers side by side, the company has announced.
Dell PowerEdge servers upgrade to AMD 16-core Opteron chips

Dell has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the recently-launched AMD 16-core Opteron processors.
Intel pushes 50-core chip for exascale HPC programme

Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's HPC plans to scale performance while reducing power consumption moving toward an exascale supercomputer by 2018.
HDS releases converged computing platform for SAP

Hitachi Data Systems plans to release its latest flavour of Converged Platform data centre offerings aimed at analysing massive amounts of data in SAP environments.
SPEC tool to improve server efficiency ratings

SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has developed a toolkit to help more accurately measure the energy efficiency of servers.
Micron unveils its first entry-level SSD for blade servers

Micron has released its first entry-level solid state drive (SSD) aimed at being used as a boot drive in servers or for I/O intensive read applications, such as video streaming in cloud computing environments.

Latest Features

The solution to legacy application woes

Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive and thus difficult to justify; plus, it tends to interrupt operations. Meanwhile, the ageing software lingers in accounting's ledgers, overstays its welcome in sales and causes poor network performance throughout the organisation.
Fabric wars: Cisco vs. Brocade vs. Juniper

The past three years have been very noisy on the data center fabric and architecture front. Every quarter seems to bring about a new convergence blueprint from another vendor - and a variety from one or two.
Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
Red Hat - The virtualisation path less travelled

To update an old IT saying about IBM and job security, few IT managers may get fired for choosing VMware to virtualise their infrastructure. VMware, after all, is the safe bet: the company currently enjoys 80% of the server-side virtualisation market, according to IDC.
Cisco reaches a financial milestone

Cisco achieved a milestone in its most recent fiscal quarter, one with profound implications for the future of the company: Cisco made more money from its new products and services than it did from routers and switches.
How Fibre Channel over Ethernet went from fee to free

With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free.
Top 12 most popular green IT products

IT managers are thinking green from the desktop monitor to the recycling bin to the copy machine. Here are the dozen most popular tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and promote green IT practices.
Cisco hopes to steamroll flat network competitors

When talk turns to flattening the data centre network, Cisco has as much of a story to tell as the other guys, if not more so.
Citrix vs VMware: Cisco joins the fray in new deal

Within the last ten days, Citrix Systems and VMware have each landed surprise blows in a fight that has heated up from an us-vs.-them platform debate to a real sparring match in the cloud and virtual desktop arenas.
Riverbed CEO talks WAN optimisation and cloud

In an interview, Kennelly discusses the future of Riverbed and how WAN optimisation is like building a private cloud.

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Implementing Sun Solaris on IBM BladeCenter Servers

This IBM Redpaper describes how to install Solaris on supported BladeCenter servers, either natively or with the use of a Solaris Installation Server.
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Discover the advantages of the next generation HP BladeSystem, delivering a best-run IT infrastructure right out of the box. HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade brings together the benefits of the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system, Integrity servers and the HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture to provide unprecedented value to customers looking to deploy enterprise-class UNIX in a blade server environment.
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