What Does Intel Want with an Ethernet Switch Maker?

Explore maximumpc.com (Jul 20 2011) Cloud Computing

... and workload balancing capabilities. The deal also puts Intel in a better position to compete with Cisco. "Our customers are looking to purchase compute, networking, and storage as one unit," said Steve S......working, and storage as one unit," said Steve Schultz, director of marketing at Intel, according to InfoWorld. "This is a building block we didn't have in our product portfolio." Financial terms of the deal we... (Read Full Article)

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Roundup: The Open Data Center Alliance

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2010) Cloud Computing

.... It will set best practices and standards that allow enterprises to proceed with cloud operations. InfoWorld – The group’s formation is notable for couple of reasons: First, it signals that cloud computing ha......bility. This vision arguably butts heads with the direction taken by major vendors such as IBM, HP, Cisco, and the like, who would like nothing more than to lock customers in to their own technologies. ZDN... (Read Full Article)

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Leading EU Broadband Providers Commit to Energy Saving

Explore The New York Times (Sep 28 2010) Emissions , Networking

...nt Stories From the IDG News Service * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers British Telecom, Belgacom, France Telecom-Orange, OTE, Telefonica and Turk Telekom am... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Names Former Cisco Exec to Lead Networking

Explore The New York Times (Sep 23 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

Dell has hired Cisco Systems veteran Dario Zamarian to lead its networking business, naming him as its first vice president dedi......ng Stories From the IDG News Service * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Zamarian has joined Dell as vice president and general manager of the networking divisio... (Read Full Article)

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Applications Weakened by Third-Party Code

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...re Stories From the IDG News Service * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Companies often use code libraries that have been developed from either open-source proje... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Gets Cloud Religion

Explore The New York Times (Sep 21 2010) Cloud Computing

...ware Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Fast-forward to Oracle OpenWorld this week and Oracle is now well and truly on the cloud... (Read Full Article)

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Water Cooling Returns to IBM Mainframe

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...e Systems Stories From Computerworld * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers The new mainframe, dubbed the zEnterprise 196 , can operate with up to 96 processors vers... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Hawks Its New Modular Data Center

Explore The New York Times (Aug 31 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...nt Stories From the IDG News Service * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers The first modular data centers, including one shown by Dell two years ago, used standard ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft to Build Giant Data Center in Virginia

Explore The New York Times (Aug 31 2010) Cloud Computing

...tems Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Microsoft will spend US$499 million to build a data center in Mecklenburg County in Sout... (Read Full Article)

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HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment

Explore The New York Times (Aug 30 2010) Cloud Computing

...rnet Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers CloudStart is offered by HP Cloud Consulting Services and will use the company's Cloud S... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft BPOS Cloud Suite Hit by Access Problems

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...ware Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers The problem lasted more than two hours, between 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. U.S. Eastern Ti... (Read Full Article)

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Brocade Readying 100G Ethernet for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Aug 18 2010) Networking

...king Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers The IEEE 802.3ba standard, approved in June, defines specifications for both 40G bps and......thernet, which some organizations with fast-growing performance requirements say they already need. Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks said even before the standard's ratification that ... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Buying 3PAR for $1.15 Billion

Explore The New York Times (Aug 16 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

...es Stories From the IDG News Service * CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA * Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center * Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers 3PAR's Utility Storage platform dramatically cuts administrative, power and space costs o... (Read Full Article)

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Interop: Dog Fooding IT

Explore Network Computing (Apr 28 2010)

...ng in IT and the market. My view doesn't always jibe with what they see in the market. Whether it's Cisco who still hasn't deployed NAC too deeply, HP who is crowing about their all-HP data center, or F5 w......n Data Center (GDC) off at South campus. SU was recently named as one of the 2010 Green 15 by GDC's InfoWorld for the University's ... (Read Full Article)

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