We continue with the large acquisitions. This is the turn of EMC on Isilon, a large entity known to most as a storage system vendor, acquires Isilon, which we talked about in 2008, a strong reality in cluster storage systems. The growth in the demand for scalability in storage, not only in the amount of […]
When we attended a conference in Rome (Data Center Evolution), Cisco described its vision for the Unified Computing System (UCS), focusing on the FCoE (Fiber Channel Over Ethernet) protocol and how Cisco supported this rather than the more performing Infiniband. We asked the speaker Roberto Missana (Channel Product Sales Specialist of Cisco and Vice Chairman […]
The proliferation of datacenters, the number of under-used servers, the delays and complexity in designing and implementing a reliable and scalable multi-tier infrastructure, the need of companies to no longer want to worry about the infrastructure, to no longer want to keep “in-house” system engineers and architects useful only at certain times, are finally developing […]
This year we missed the event, but fortunately the organization sent us all the slides of the speeches, some really very interesting, such as the new networking technologies associated with storage (FCoE, Infiniband) or storage virtualization understood as efficient use by server virtualization systems, deduplication and green storage. Opening notes and introduction by SNIA – […]