| Cisco, HP ratchet up data center battle Cisco and HP last week armed themselves for an impending battle in the data center in which each company will invade the other’s turf. Real network engineers put Cisco data center gear through its paces If you want to know how the Cisco Nexus line really works in practice, here's your chance to live vicariously through a group of network engineers who right now are testing out an end-to-end Nexus data center design. In their words "Yup, scary." Cisco Data Center "Big Bang" Announcement - YYYAAWWNNN..... Cisco's Data Center "Blast" or "Big Bang" announcement is in one word - YAWN. I will probably blog about EnergyWise and the Nexus 2000 soon because they are good ideas and good technology. But this is not a "Big Bang" or "Blast". Cisco sets data center blast Cisco Tuesday unveiled vital extensions to its data center arsenal with additions to the Nexus switching line and enhancements to its Catalyst products, including software designed to let the switches control the energy consumption of attached devices. Dell, Cisco: Frenemies? Cisco and Dell have extended their global Solution Technology Integrator agreement to include Cisco's Nexus 5020 data center switching systems with Dell server and storage products. How will this relationship proceed once Cisco launches its blade servers? What if my storage cloud turns stormy? Services that store enterprise data in a "cloud" on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask, but for all their limitations, they may be no more risky than on-site storage platforms. Tips for safe cloud storage Entrusting enterprise data to a storage provider's online cloud may be no more risky than putting it in a proprietary storage platform in your own data center, according to some analysts and users. But there are specific steps you should take to prevent problems. Cloud computing and compliance: Be careful up there Using the cloud for data processing and storage may have its advantages in terms of simplicity and cost, but ensuring regulatory compliance will not be nearly so simple. Google Launches M-Lab Measurement Tools Today Google launched a new public service aimed at testing your ISP's practices and performance. The Internet community has been struggling with the thorny topic of Net neutrality. What has been missing from the heated debate is hard data. Now you can get your own data and let your measurements be added to the common database in the cloud. The site called M-Lab hosts three cool test tools with more coming. It is also a repository of information and pointers to other performance measurement tools. Filegroups vs. RAID for SQL Server? Microsoft Subnet blogger Brian Egler says that the old performance tradeoff may no longer hold true. Sentilla measures power use at the server level Sentilla has released a product that measures the electricity being consumed by individual servers in a data center and makes recommendations based on those usage levels to help cut energy bills, the company announced Tuesday. Tokyo Electric plans big solar plant Tokyo Electric Power is increasing its investment in solar energy with plans to build a 10-megawatt solar plant near Tokyo. Start-up VMOps aims to ease cloud deployments VMOps' cloud-computing infrastructure stack, built to be like "EC2 in a box," includes a hardened version of the Xen hypervisor plus storage and network virtualization. Startup introduces cloud marketplace Deutsche Telekom spin-off Zimory has unveiled Public Cloud, a marketplace for companies that want to buy and sell hosted server capacity online. Video: HP alliance optimizes ProCurve switches ProCurve ONE, is aimed to bring software for security, application acceleration and other functions right into the network. Zimory launches cloud trading platform German start-up Zimory has launched what it calls the first 'global marketplace for cloud resources' to enable organisations to buy or sell extra computing capacity, without the hefty financial commitment of acquiring new data centre capacity. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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