In the data center, the cloud-optimized network connects virtual servers and their application workloads to other virtual servers and to virtual LUNs in storage resource pools, while maintaining secure, load-balanced client access connections to the Web, applications, and databases deployed on virtual machines. The cloud-optimized network connects to virtualized resource pools and physical clients, servers, and storage using a single logical network. Ultimately, a cloud-optimized network can…

Not many companies have thought about digital storage costs. Is this true, and why is this so?



Many companies are not approaching storage holistically, so they can’t analyze the true costs of storing their digital and paper-based information. 



In the face of the current data explosion, storage itself is actually cheap. However, with information comes risk. Data can be subject to compliance regulations, such as SEC mandates, legal discovery requests, and security…

A new year tends to bring about reflections on the previous twelve months as well as anticipation for what lies ahead in the coming year. In this three part series on Data Center POST, we are going to take a deeper look at some of the trends we feel will shape the data center industry today and throughout 2011: business efficiencies, regulation, and security risk management.

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Computing as a utility remains the dream of data center managers, where more resources are just available when you need them, like electricity when you turn on the lights.



Dynamic hosting and cloud computing are the core technologies that are going to make that dream of utility computing a reality.



In dynamic hosting and cloud computing environments, new network, server, VM and applications can be provisioned dynamically, by customer and at various time periods. That…

FCoE is a protocol which allows Ethernet to encapsulate fibre channel SAN networking traffic into Ethernet Frames. This is an important capability since it will allow IT managers to deploy an unified network based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet - in place of the separate IP and SAN networks which are common in the enterprise today.



The technology is becoming increasingly popular because the network consolidation provided by FCoE can deliver reduced data center costs for power and rackspace…