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The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
The players are lining up for the biggest acquisition game enterprise IT has witnessed in a while Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer...
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Four Fundamental Best Practices for Enterprise IT
Every technician develops a set of tools and practices that serve them well. In this post, I present my best practices for enterprise IT. Although many people are cynical about the whole idea of best...
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IBM’s Storwize V7000: 100% SVC; 0% Storwize
Today, IBM alerted the world that they had not fallen asleep at the wheel by kicking out an awfully-impressive midrange storage array, the Storwize V7000. This seems like an excellent device, filled...
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Caringo Bulks Up CAStor For Cloud Services
You may not know Caringo, but you have probably heard of cloud storage, EMC Centera, and Dell DX. Read on to learn the link! Now that the hype of “cloud everything” is subsiding, organizations are...
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What is Application Performance Monitoring?
IT needs application monitoring: Gauges alone won’t get you to your destination! Remember what it was like to drive without a GPS? Sure, it’s possible, but a good GPS takes it to a whole new level....
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Every Company Is Gunning For Someone Else
Everyone has a target on their backs, but they all aim in different directions One of the amusing aspects of being self-employed is watching all the giants battle it out. Every company is gunning for...
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Thin Provisioning: Playing the Telephone Game
One of the topics I’ve often written and spoken about is thin provisioning. This series of 11 articles is an edited version of my thin provisioning presentation from Interop New York 2010. I hope you...
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Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8
Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is...
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Eight Unresolved Questions About FCoE
It's not going to be this easy to bridge Fibre Channel and Ethernet! Before the holidays, I posed a question on Google+ that generated quite a bit of interest and feedback. Now that it has settled...
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What Is a Blade Server?
I’ve been watching enterprise IT for over 20 years now, and I’ve seen some radical changes. In the server space, one of the biggest shifts was the form factor of the servers: From tower to rack-mount...
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