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How do you make a grab for a bigger slice of the virtualization market in the face of VMware’s expansive portfolio? By going in whole hog. The software company is undergoing a product realignment, corralling all of its virtualization technologies under the Oracle Virtualization banner in a product development and branding exercise that, if all [...]

Read more Oracle Virtualization’s “desktop-to-datacenter” play

by Pedro Hernandez on August 23, 2010 · 0 comments

Tips for an effective data deduplication implementation – SearchStorage.comFor example, one significant argument is whether inline deduplication is more efficient than post-processing dedupe. While dedupe requires processing, which takes time and resources, the issue is where to spend the time:…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, July 30

by Pedro Hernandez on July 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Thomson Reuters reduces storage sprawl to save money, increase quality 2009 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards: Christopher Crowhurst – InfoWorld The server virtualization — paid for by the storage optimization savings — did more than consolidate servers. After five months,…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 2

by Pedro Hernandez on June 2, 2009 · 0 comments

Sun is adding oomph to entry-level enterprise storage arrays with solid-state drives. Not to worry, the flash-packing storage devices play a supplementary role in the Sun Storage 7310, acting more like cache to improve performance. That cache can swell up…

Read more Sun Gives Entry Level Storage a Dash of Flash

by Pedro Hernandez on May 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Wondering what will become of Sun’s data center greening initiatives now that it’s getting gobbled up by database giant Oracle. The good news, according to Channel Insider, is that they’ll continue for the time being. Sun’s partners will get a…

Read more Oracle-Sun Deal's Green Lining

by Pedro Hernandez on April 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Sun Fire X4270 Sun today launched a slew of new Sun Fire systems based on the quad-core, virtualization-friendly Intel Xeon 5500 series of processors. Sun provides this helpful breakdown of where in the data center their new gear slots in:…

Read more Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers

by Pedro Hernandez on April 14, 2009 · 0 comments