HP introduced a new modular data center at HP Discover this week that resembles a double wide mobile home with a cooling system that the company says has 95% better efficiency than the monolithic data centers built over the past 20 years.
The cooling system for the HP EcoPOD is designed to adapt to IT loads and outside conditions. For the most…
webOS is the heart of how HP will compete against far more established competitors in the mobile marketplace, especially in the enterprise, where it may have its best chance of success against Apple iOS and Google Android.
At the opening keynote yesterday for HP Discover, CEO Leo Apotheker said the TouchPad is designed with the enterprise in mind…
What are key considerations when looking at server infrastructure in cloud deployments?
That’s the question this month for our MacBook Air contest. Best comment on this post wins. You’ll need a Disqus account to participate. The question raises all kinds of potential conversations, ranging from the type of server to integrate to the network…
Virtualization is an on ramp to the cloud. But the road to the on ramp is one that organizations are still learning to traverse.
The modern IT organization will get there. The investments in virtualization are being made and they are not expected to slow down.
This white paper from Trend MIcro explores the role of information security that…
What do you need to do to build a case for virtualization? It can be a cultural shift for a company to adopt virtualization. It requires different skill sets and an approach that turns a data center into a network that optimizes an infrastructure according to the principles of a shared infrastructure.
SOAP is dead. No it’s not. SOAP is undead. And the undead still inhabit the enterprise… in a big way. […]
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and deployment efficiency. NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an…
The small business owner is in that phase right now in which they are asking the young store clerk about all this cloud stuff.
It may be surprising but they are also asking about virtualization. Businesses are starting to understand that they can leapfrog into a new competitive world by using virtualization to use multiple operating systems and…
A content delivery network (CDN) is fine for distributing the data from a Web page but the advent of a new programming interface will help create a new method for pushing data to the edge of the network.
The first signs of this new network is coming from companies that are creating a new wave of API services for better distributing the billions…
I’ve learned one thing when writing about virtualization in the past few years. Most everyone I know has no clue what it means.
It’s more confusing than “the cloud,” that other topic we cover quite a bit at ReadWriteWeb.
Rackspace is offering a hosted desktop virtualization service with Citrix that provides a way to virtualize all those tablets and smartphones that people are bringing to work.
It also takes the burden off the enterprise, which is having considerable difficulty figuring out how to bring together the multiple parties that are needed to offer a…
The war that the record labels is waging to protect its copyrighted music is mistakenly believed to only concern services that explicitly allow you to share music.
That’s not so true anymore. The RIAA is broadening its scope. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Its new targets are services such as Box.net, the subject of a subpoena this week…
The software companies that have risen to power in the past 40 years are talking more about the cloud. That has to be a factor of the business market and the interest on behalf of top IT executives, the ones who have in large part commanded the budgets for large-scale solutions projects.
According to a study by IBM, 60% of Global CIOs are now…
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and deployment efficiency. NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse joined forces to create an…
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the key features of virtualization — specifically VMware virtualization solutions — that help defend your datacenter against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence — a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition to this core capability, virtualization provides several…
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Brian Madden points out it’s an ever-more-complicated concern as the concept of the desktop changes and we grapple with ways virtualization is treated in a security context.
The history of the network is a story about communications. In the late 19th century, the railroads began connecting cities and towns throughout the world. Today, the global digital network gives news definitions to space and time.
In this new space, we are entering the realm of the virtual. The virtual network is becoming the standard that…
We’re a few days away from closing the comments for our latest MacBookAir giveaway.
The question: What is IT-as-a-Service and How Do You Determine its Value?
We have 18 comments and once again, the insights are sharp and intelligent.
I am sitting among the SAP influencers at SAP SapphireNow, all excited about what we have been waiting for this week and that’s the keynote featuring executive board member Vishal Sikka and SAP Founder Dr. Hasso Plattner.
It’s a time to reflect on the network. Millions of people are online with data growing exponentially. But the latency issue is…
The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP’s CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great – suave and smooth. He pointed to Max and his band. “Mighty Max!,” he said. He told Max that what he loves about him is his passion, that he was in the moment – a thinly veiled reference to the real-time…