Cybercriminals create autonomous applications called bots that can infect networks in a variety of ways, via Web or email. A botnet is a network of these applications that are capable of acting on instruction once they are triggered. This happens when a bot, that may be dormant in your network,, “calls home” via any port. This allows perpetrators to control infected computers via their command and control hosts residing outside your network. In a study of 130 large companies done by…

For being a declared dead or zombie technology (here, here or here) tape remains very much alive however its role is changing. There is no disputing that hard disk drives (HDDs)…

Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The Virtualization Practice (TVP)…

What do VARs and Clouds as well as MSPs have in common?

Several things it turns out:

• Some Value Added Resellers (VARS) (links to VAR related content and comments here, here and…

NetApp announced earlier this year that it was planning on doing another acquisition following on their recent purchase of Bycast (policy based storage and management software).…

I recently did a couple of Industry Trends and Perspectives webcast events around the topic and themes of End to End (E2E) awareness and cross domain (or technology) management insight for cloud, virtual and other abstracted as well as physical IT environments. The…

Despite having been repeatedly declared dead at the hands of some new emerging technology over the past several decades, the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) continues to evolve as it moves towards its 60th birthday. More recently HDDs have been…

I recently did an interview with the folks over at Infortrend (a RAID storage company) discussing various industry trends and perspectives including…

Hopefully, with your help, we are going to maintain neutral list of what you, our members consider the most informative blogs in the data center industry!

We have started off with a list of what we think are the 50 most informative blogs on the net based on:

• Quality of information…

Traditional data center managers and IT admins take a conservative approach related to managing/provisioning I/O connectivity to rack mount based servers, typically installing multiple network interfaces cards (NICs) and storage host bus adapters (HBAs), with redundant cables/switches. This causes a burden on IT’s ability to agile/responsive to their business needs, as the setup/teardown of these environment are both time consuming and costly.

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