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Ethernet: The Drive for Convergence

Convergence of networking technologies is a long held requirement for IT managers. The benefits gained by having a single infrastructure for data networking, storage networking, and inter-processor communications provide improved Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This is due to the use of common hardware for multiple network traffic types as...

Tags: Ethernet, Network, QLogic Corp., Convergence, Roi/Tco, Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2007-10-22

Scaling the IBM System Storage DS4000 Connectivity on VMware

Over the past few years, VMware and Blade Servers have taken the IT world by storm. According to Gartner, blade servers now account for 12.5% of all new servers and are expected to grow over 29% by 2009. IDC indicates that 10% of physical servers deployed in 2007 will run...

Tags: Storage, QLogic Corp., VMware Inc., International Data Corp., IBM Corp., Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-20

Oracle Adopts QLogic Solution for Low Cost SAN Deployment

For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. Oracle IT wanted to reduce the cost of its storage infrastructure. With Oracle Database 10g's, QLogic SANbox 5200 Stackable...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAN, QLogic Corp., Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

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Services Arm Relationship Success Story: QLogic Corporation

QLogic, an enterprise storage solution vendor, was experiencing rapid worldwide growth in product sales. In addition to other distant customer support issues, a large number of service calls they received by telephone or e-mail were in local non-English languages. QLogic was looking for a long-term global services partner who could...

Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., QLogic Corp., Supply Chain, Product Marketing, Business Structures, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Storage Management, It Services, Storage, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Online Communications, Hardware

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Qlogic Corporation simplifies the process of networking storage for OEMs, resellers, and systems integrators

QLogic is the industry leader in iSCSI design wins, with ASIC and HBA products already available and more than a dozen OEM customer storage systems under development. QLogic's SANblade iSCSI host bus adapters HBAs are the newest addition to QLogic's award-winning line of SCSI and Fibre Channel adapter products. Find...

Tags: Network, Adapter, QLogic Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware

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Dishing It Out

There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...

Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name

Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy nameJust what is "Equipt"?This name certainly does not contain any hint as to why someone would want it. Product names should be at least somewhat related to the purpose of the product.I also dont like software subscriptions. It seems that they are simply another way...

Tags: Microsoft Equipt, Microsoft Corp., lousy name, good deal, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Now I know we're in a recession

Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...

Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance

Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take

Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the converstions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-02

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilitiesIt does work!Hi Nate,I couldn't agree more! We changed our approach to application security around 1 year ago and one of the core changes was that security is as much of a defect as a functional issue. It really has made a world...

Tags: Nate, Web 2.0 vulnerability, security, Web 2.0, vulnerability, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?

Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?sure theres competition alwaysMicrosoft is doing well & not in dire straits that it needs its founder to revive it. They have a good team in place. The transition is the most well planned transition ever known.Also recent products of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Leadership, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium

Interesting bit of news coming out of the FIRST Conference in Vancouver today:  Five big-name IT firms have created a non-profit consortium aimed at "proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response." The group -- called ICASI Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet --...

Tags: Security Threat, Information Technology, Consortium, ICASI, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-06-26

MySpace's "data portability" initiative goes live today - prepare to be locked-in

News Corp.-owned MySpace will today officially launch its MySpace Data Availability Project, the company's previously announced so-called "data portability" initiative in which users will be able to optionally share their public profile data with participating sites, along with their MySpace photos, MySpaceTV videos and friend lists. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Data, Site, MySpace, Internet, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Hyper-V: It's here

As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-26

iSuppli: iPhone 3G costs $173 to make

An article at Business Week states that the forthcoming iPhone 3G costs Apple approximately US$173 to manufacture. The estimate is based on its Bill of Materials BOM according to a preliminary "virtual teardown" conducted by iSuppli Corp. "At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of $173,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, iSuppli Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Microhoo talks on again--or not

Microhoo talks on again--or notCould be someone trying to raiseYahoo's stock price before they sell.This just in: [i]Reuters - CNBC says no deal "whatsoever" on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources.Copyright 2008 Reuters[/i]This is getting downright dysfunctionalMaybe something like the alcoholic who just has to...

Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Investment, Sue Decker, Yahoo! Inc., Microhoo, Icahn, Yang

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Microhoo talks on again--or not

Reuters followed a TechCrunch report that Microsoft was resuming talks with Yahoo with a CNBC report that there's no deal on the table. Update: CNBC says no deal "whatsoever" on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources. NEW YORK--Microsoft Corp...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Blogging, Internet, Reuters, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, News Corp., merger

News items 2008-06-24

Facebook overtakes MySpace globally

The latest comScore figures show Mark Zuckerberg's social network has overtaken its News Corp rival for worldwide unique visitors. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new front-runner: Facebook appears to have surpassed long-time rival MySpace...

Tags: Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., Site, MySpace, Hi5, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Caroline McCarthy, ComeScore, ratings, social network

News items 2008-06-23

Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?

Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?Do IT departments want Firefox?Firefox is all well and good and what I am using right now. But.... A lot of corporate software demands the use of IE--probably a version or two old at that. Cognos comes to mind...

Tags: Web browsers, MSI, Mozilla Firefox, installer

Discussion threads 2008-06-20