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Virtual vs. Physical Appliances: 4 Compelling Reasons for Change

Virtual v’s Physical Appliances – 4 compelling reasons for change

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| Feature | Virtualization | 10/10/08 at 12:26 pm |


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IBM brings 5GHz chip to its top-selling Unix server

IBM spruced up its Unix servers on Tuesday with faster processors and new management software, targeting customers who want to use its hardware for virtualization and server consolidation.

| News | Server and data center | Virtualization | 10/07/08 at 9:12 pm |


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Enterprise Social Networking v Unified Communications

I have to concede that enterprise social networking (eSN) has been around for a very long time. In fact, it has been around so long that it has only recently been identified as social networking. In the not-so-distant past eSN was called unified communications and collaboration.



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Three degrees of storage virtualization

Over the years, virtualization has been employed in almost every facet of storage technology: disk, controller, array, SAN, LAN and even host (think logical volume manager). At the risk of oversimplification, I'd suggest that there are three broad categories: inside the box, outside the box and tape emulation. Each of these offers distinct benefits as well as some commonalities.

| Opinion | Storage | Virtualization | 10/06/08 at 4:34 pm |


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