Analysts love Cisco's move into the data centre, and the competition are picking holes in the strategy - while beta testers say it looks promising
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Cisco’s Blades Might Cut Both Ways
Cisco's Unified Computing System could be a chance for IT departments looking to rebuild their data centres in the rubble of the recession - but there will be upfront costs, warns Cameron Sturdevant
Stand By For Cisco’s Server Announcement
We've all known for a long while that Cisco has plans for the data centre. This week we find out what they are.
Will The Cloud Evaporate In The Recession?
We thought the recession was going to push IT into the cloud. Big consultants aren't so sure
Xiotech Emprise 7000: A Well-Designed Storage Solution
Xiotech goes where few other storage vendors go in terms of a commitment to high availability and fault tolerance.
Isilon Claims Storage Scalability Breakthrough
Runing each storage tier as a single multi-petabyte file volume could halve TCO and double your storage utilisation, says clustered NAS specialist.
High-end Storage Hit by Spending Freeze
The worldwide recession is finally beginning to impact the data storage market.
IT must lead the way – eWEEK Europe UK
Video: IT is not just cleaning up its own act. It will be the driving force in allowing every sector to thrive in today's climate - that was the message form our London launch
eWEEK Europe launches in the UK
As the industry changes, a new resource has arrived to help IT professionals excel in their mission
Heretical Seanodes Shares Storage With No External Hardware
Shared storage needs NAS and SAN hardware doesn't it? Not if you listen to Jacques Baldinger, CEO of Seanodes, a radical storage start-up based in Paris.
IBM pushes for 21st century infrastructure
IBM has a set of new management functions and a "cloud czar", in a bid to provide the management and control that virtualised data centres and outsourced IT will require.
IBM’s Cloud Announcements – Not Just Fluff
System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.
NetApp Drops SMB Storage
Storage company NetApp quietly axed its line of midmarket-based storage solutions, StoreVault.
Wozniak Joins Storage Startup
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has signed up as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a Salt Lake City-basedcompany that makes compact NAND flash storage arrays.
Green Grid Measures Data Centre Efficiency
The Green Grid consortium has issued a set of guidelines to solve one of the trickiest issues facing sustainable computing - how to measure the efficiency of a data centre.
EMC and Microsoft Renew Alliance Despite Virtualization Conflict
Microsoft and data storage giant EMC are renewing their product partnership, despite growing competition in the fast-growing area of virtualization.
Toshiba Looks to Cut Costs as NAND Flash Memory Prices Fall
Toshiba is looking to cut costs by £2.3 billion in the next year as the company looks to deal with the falling prices of NAND flash memory. Toshiba, which is also a major player in the worldwide PC market, and Samsung are struggling as ...
Sun To Sign EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres
The computer manufacturer has today announced its firm intention to be the first systems vendor to endorse the EU best practices for energy efficient data centre design.
Sun Cools Down the Data Centre
The IT industry has a poor record of wasting energy in data centres, says server maker Sun Microsystems. But the company wants to make amends: it has attacked the source of the problem, and rewritten the rules for cooling and power.
Seagate Solves Firmware Issue, Offers Fix for HDD Owners
Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including some Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives and related drive families based on this product platform, manufactured through December 2008
HP ProLiant DL185 G5 Storage Server Is Capable, Quick
With the ProLiant DL185 G5, Hewlett-Packard introduces a major update to the management software that improves usability over earlier versions of HP Storage Server Management Console. The ProLiant DL185 G5 can be configured as either a ...
Intel Atom Processor Road Map Springs a Leak
Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analy ...
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business
Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.
Direct-Attached Storage Coming of Age in Web 2.0 World
Despite talk about iSCSI, Fibre Channel and 4/10GB Ethernet connectivity, analystss estimate that DAS still comprises about 70 percent of the entire data storage market
Dell Confirms ‘Adamo’ Luxury Laptop at Las Vegas Expo
Dell confirms that it has developed an ultrathin, luxury laptop code-named Adamo, in an effort to counter what Apple achieved with the MacBook Air.
SanDisk Sees 2009 as the Year of SSD Notebooks
The company believes SSDs are poised to enter mainstream corporate notebooks in 2009. Fast new SanDisk G3 drives will become available in midyear in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB.