July 27, 2011
Using its new silicon at the core, Mellanox introduced a new switch designed to help this manufacturer edge its way into the Ethernet switching market and add to its dominant InfiniBand position.
July 27, 2011
Because Fibre Channel is tied to Structured Data, Will it Miss Out on Web/Cloud Storage Growth?
July 27, 2011
Estimates of the ratio of structured versus unstructured data, put unstructured data at about 80% of data found in an organization. Unstructured data is in the form of e-mail, corporate documents, news, blog articles, Web pages while structured data is data captured in structured form in relational databases.
July 27, 2011
Cloud Computing differs from On-Premises (traditional) Computing in that the customer rents or leases the use of the IT equipment on a per usage basis rather than design, purchase, install, and maintain the IT equipment and software as well as pay the operational costs like cooling and power. Further, the customer controls the provisioning, modification and termination of the use of this equipment. However, the key difference is multi-tenancy in that the computing resources are shared by customers.
July 27, 2011
The key to whether users move in droves to Cloud Computing has to do with where the data resides and who controls and safeguards it. The Cloud architecture has been optimized for multi-tenancy. Most applications run in Virtual Machines allowing multiple customers to use the same server, operating system, and applications. They share storage resources across customers.
July 26, 2011
Marvell’s entry into the market greatly legitimizes 10GBASE-T. While one might consider the sales of Teranetics to PLX and of Solarflare’s assets to Marvell as bad news, these can be viewed positively!