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 […]
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, July 30
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:…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 2
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,…
Sun Gives Entry Level Storage a Dash of Flash
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…
Oracle-Sun Deal's Green Lining
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…
Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers
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:…
