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Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)

Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Data Protection, Dell EqualLogic, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-20

A PDC peek at a Microsoft server container (photos)

At its developer conference, Microsoft shows off the fourth generation of its data center design as it moves toward Azure and the cloud. by CNET News.com

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-18

FusionStorm Datacenter Summit

Taking part in FusionStorm's Datacenter Summit in Las Vegas today. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Las Vegas, Summit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-12

LiveOffice opens cloud-based e-mail archiving to all mail platforms

LiveOffice announced cloud-based e-mail archiving for all e-mail platforms, even those that still live in a traditional e-mail data center. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Data Center, E-mail Archiving, LiveOffice, E-mail, Data Centers, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-11

New Samsung site offers up data for evaluating SSD energy efficiency

Samsung offers tips for using DDR3 and SSDs to improve data-center energy efficiency. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Fortune Data Centers gets its LEED Gold certification

Fortune Data Centers earns rare Gold LEED certification for multi-tenant data center in San Jose, Calif. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Certification, Data Center, Data Centers, Quality, Storage, Training And Certification, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-09

HP: How about your own personal smart grid for your data center?

HP combines data center energy management portfolio into real-time "smart grid" solution. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

HP helps clients get an edge on data center energy usage and "stranded" capacity

Hewlett-Packard's Environmental Edge tool is helping businesses reclaim stranded energy capacity. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Capacity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-04

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V

Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Virtualization, Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-11-04

Power Solutions Article:  A Smart Path to Virtualization

As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT infrastructure be configured for maximum business benefit? Dell is partnering with other industry leaders to build a flexible, industry-standard approach that...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-04

Technical Report:  Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays

Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid provisioning, high availability, and data protection. All of these reasons lead to lower data center costs and TCO. Virtual servers together with intelligent virtual storage increase the chances for successful deployments of virtual data...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Roi/Tco, Storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-11-04

Solutions Brief:  Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V:  Enabling The Next Generation Virtualized Data Center

Server virtualization is one of the most significant technology trends in IT environments today, and a key enabler of the next generation virtualized data center. Server virtualization relies on hypervisors to provide the abstraction layer between the operating systems and the physical hardware, allowing IT administrators the ability to consolidate...

Tags: Virtual Data Center, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Data Center Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-04

Cisco, EMC, VMware announce joint integrated datacenter venture

Cisco, EMC and VMware announced Tuesday a joint venture to sell a new integrated data center product called V-Block. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Live Webcast: Enhanced Availability in a Virtual Data Center with the Dell PS Series and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ introduces new capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized environments. To capitalize on these capabilities, organizations must design an infrastructure that includes a robust, reliable shared-storage solution with built-in redundancy and tight integration of virtualization management capabilities. Join this live...

Tags: Virtual Data Center, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Data Center Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization

Webcasts 2009-11-03

Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education

Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...

Tags: Education, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-03

Photos: Inside a Microsoft data center

CNET News' Ina Fried tours Microsoft's massive new Chicago-area data center during recent grand opening event. by CNET News.com

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, CNET News, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, CNET News.com, news

Image galleries 2009-11-02

Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center

CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, News, Microsoft, data, center, container, server

Videos 2009-11-02

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02