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.

Posted on 07-02-10
Dell, competing nose-to-nose in IT infrastructure with Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, will integrate Scalent's V/OE, or Virtual Operating Environment, into its Advanced Infrastructure Manager control software.

Posted on 07-01-10
NEC Corp. of America is offering native VMware vSphere support on its fault-tolerant servers. This will give uptime assurance to virtualized environments running on the high-availability systems.

Posted on 07-01-10
A QuickStart wizard and xTuple Desktop, a loadable package that is customizable and allows users to create their own favorite places in the application, are among the expanded features the company announced.

Posted on 06-30-10
HDS is offering a compromise for IT managers who are wary of moving their customers' data to a cloud deployment: Now they can keep it in a data storage cloud on their own site.

Posted on 06-30-10
Cisco Systems is looking to use its Cius tablet to give businesses a mobile platform for collaboration. Cisco showed off the Cius, with its 7-inch screen, at the Cisco Live event. The device won't be ready for general availability until the first quarter of 2011.

Posted on 06-30-10
Microsoft is already discussing Windows 8 internally, according to an alleged internal slide deck leaked online, with ideas bandied about that include a "Microsoft Store" for downloading apps, ultra-fast booting, a display that automatically adjusts to ambient light, and fuller cloud integration.

Posted on 06-30-10
HP and Avaya have announced a three-year partnership that will have HP selling and servicing Avaya UC solutions, including Avaya’s Aura platform.

Posted on 06-30-10
The powerful new cluster-type systems feature gateway deduplication, DTrace analytics, inline data compression, 4Gbit/sec and 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel protocol support, multiple storage pools, and new 1TB and 2TB SAS disk drives.

Posted on 06-29-10
With the acquisition of SafeData, Data Storage augments its products and services to include data backup and recovery, digital archiving, virtual hosting and standby data recovery, e-discovery, e-mail archiving, and hosted Exchange for the IBM iSeries market.

Posted on 06-29-10
Pooling is an approach to storage virtualization that delineates specific areas of the data storage system to be dedicated to specific data flows, in order to enable more efficient multitenant service deployments.

Posted on 06-29-10
Oracle this week revealed an upgraded version of its Sun Fire x86 systems data center stack that includes a series of new Intel-powered blade servers, five new rack mount servers, and a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet cluster networking module.

Posted on 06-28-10
Data loss prevention technologies can be costly and challenging to deploy--especially without proper planning upfront. Here are some things to think about before you spend money.

Posted on 06-25-10
Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, along with the recent release of Office 2010, is helping drive a tech refresh in the enterprise, says CEO Michael Dell.

Posted on 06-25-10
Marc Benioff, CEO of super cloud service provider Salesforce.com, put forth the idea that a Cloud 2 era is about to dawn -- never mind that Cloud 1 is still in the process of discovery by a fair number of old-school enterprise IT folks.

Posted on 06-25-10
Paragon Software's latest virtualization software solution gives cost-conscious businesses the ability to continue using an old PC's applications on a new computer within a virtual environment.

Posted on 06-25-10
Tripp Lite's five hot-swap power distribution units (PDU) allow businesses to remove standard plug-in UPS systems for maintenance or replacement without interrupting power to the connected load.

Posted on 06-24-10
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, introduced as "Mr. Cloud," was the most influential luminary on the Day 1 agenda of the GigaOm Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco.

Posted on 06-24-10
Integration APIs allow cloud vendors to offer free service monitoring, management and provisioning capabilities via IT management application provider Spiceworks.

Posted on 06-24-10
AMD is targeting its latest Opteron family of chips at cloud and hyperscale computing environments, where great demand is placed on performance, energy efficiency and low cost. AMD officials also said that the Opteron 4000 processors also meet similar demands they are hearing from SMBs.