Today's enterprises need an IT infrastructure that adapts seamlessly and flexibly to embrace new opportunities and meet new challenges. How quickly can you deploy a server, provision storage, analyze data, and bring new users on-board? And in this cash-strapped economy, are you making the most efficient use of your data center resources? This is where you can find the answers. Peruse the latest infrastructure news from the most trusted and authoritative sources on the Web, and learn how Microsoft tools like Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint, and System Center Essentials 2007 can put your IT operation on the leading edge.

Posted 18 hours ago.
Cisco unveiled CRS-3, its new router, in a high-profile March 9 announcement. In a Webcast, Cisco executives suggested that the increasing use of online video and other high-bandwidth tools and applications would eventually make the router’s 322-terabit capacity a necessary part of IT infrastructure. The CRS-3 offers three times the capacity of Cisco's CRS-1, released in 2004, which laid the foundation for much of Cisco's network-as-platform strategy.

Posted about a day ago.
REVIEW: Employees can interact securely and stay in compliance with regulations thanks to the granular control of FaceTime USG 3.0 over instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook and P2P applications.

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3PARr, which has established much of its identity around the idea of thin provisioning for data center storage, has brought to reality another concept: autonomic storage tiering. The company introduced its newest software feature, Adaptive Optimization, which does this tiering, on March 8.

Posted 3 days ago.
The latest Google acquisition, DocVerse, makes a product allowing real-time online sharing and simultaneous group editing of PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents. This purchase is an additional aggressive move by Google into the cloud-based productivity arena, where it already has a substantial presence thanks to Google Apps.

Posted 3 days ago.
Overall sales were down slightly year over year; key factors were the world economic recession and, ironically, the continuing overall improvement in the quality of new-generation storage hardware and software.

Posted 3 days ago.
Microsoft put heavy emphasis on the cloud this week, with CEO Steve Ballmer announcing during a March 4 discussion at the University of Washington that the company intended to use cloud functionality as the jumping-off point for its future products and services.

Posted 6 days ago.
RightNow Technologies on March 4 introduced its "Cloud Service Agreement," which it claims will give clients far greater flexibility in negotiating contracts for its software-as-a-service customer experience applications.

Posted 6 days ago.
The new solutions allow health care companies to address key processes such as care coordination and patient flow, and helps ensure their efficient operation.

Posted 6 days ago.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a speech at the University of Washington to suggest that the company’s strategy moving forward will focus primarily on the cloud. Ballmer cited a number of services and platforms, including Windows Phone 7 Series and Xbox Live, as particularly cloud-centric.

Posted 6 days ago.
One of the little known secrets at IBM, and no doubt part of the secret sauce behind its transformational shift to software and services, is its reusable asset initiative.

Posted 6 days ago.
IBM welcomes a new round of competition with Oracle now that the database giant has Sun Microsystems' assets integrated into its technology base, according to a high-ranking IBM official.

Posted on 03-03-10
At the CeBIT show, IBM is unveiling x86 servers with the latest generation of its X-Architecture technology. Key to the eX5 servers is the decoupling of memory from the chip, enabling IT managers to scale the memory in their data centers without having to buy entire new servers. The new systems will increase memory scalability by 600 percent and cut in half the number of servers needed for given workloads.

Posted on 03-03-10
The Fujitsu Zero Client platform integrates Pano Logic's zero-client desktop virtualization technology and will be available later in March. Fujitsu announced the platform at CeBIT.

Posted on 03-02-10
Worldwide chip sales increased about 47 percent from January 2009 to January 2010, according to the latest SIA report. The report found that demand for PCs, smartphones and automobiles helped drive the semiconductor market during the first few weeks of 2010.

Posted on 03-02-10
At its annual Microsoft Research (MSR) showcase event, Microsoft plans to show off a host of new technologies in the works, including a new Mobile Surface technology and new advancements in cloud computing, according to published reports.

Posted on 03-02-10
Intel is rolling out the Atom N470, which has a faster clock speed than the current N450. However, at the same time, devices powered by the upcoming Atom N455 and N475 chips are being put on display at the CeBIT technology show in Germany, according to reports.

Posted on 03-01-10
Intel has been busily migrating to Windows 7, and embracing 64-bit computing as an internal standard. Intel could save as much as $11 million over the next three years by using Windows 7 in place of the aging Windows XP.

Posted on 02-28-10
The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army released contrasting policies for social network site use.

Posted on 02-26-10
Force 10 Networks is offering HP resellers an incentive program to start offering Force 10 networking gear instead of HP or Cisco products following Cisco’s decision to drop HP as a valued reseller partner.