Cisco, sources reveal data center next steps

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	Cisco, sources reveal data center next steps NEW ORLEANS -- Cisco apparently plans to soon unveil a data center switch designed for high-frequency financial trading markets, and may also be readying a switch fabric rollout similar to Juniper's recent QFabric launch. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Move fearlessly among the clouds. It's open, yet secure. Agile, yet efficient. Virtual, yet real. It builds on your current network, combining servers, networking, storage and virtualization. So you can deploy applications in minutes, not weeks. Move among the clouds. Grow your business. And turn silos into new ways of working together. Introducing the Cisco data center business advantage. In this Issue Extreme roadmap plots broader view of mobility The new cloud tool kit Scaling and provisioning virtual servers Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization and reduces costs What a Groupon Deal: $12,500 IT Consulting Discount Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Does Arizona pay an IT penalty for ignoring DST? WHITE PAPER: VMware Key Considerations for Virtual Desktop Deployment Full optimization of virtualized desktops can provide a huge cost savings. Read these key considerations with regard to storage and learn how NetApp can make more efficient use of disk space via thin provisioning, improve storage utilization by eliminating VM redundancies, and maintain RAID 10 protection with half the disk normally required. Learn more! Extreme roadmap plots broader view of mobility Extreme Networks' new product roadmap has a catchy name -- Make Your Network Mobile -- but it might be a little misleading since the plan has little to do with iPhones, tablets or moving around between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. Read More The new cloud tool kit While the term "cloud" still puts many people off, chances are good that within a few years most companies will have a mix of legacy infrastructure, private cloud pods, public cloud services (SaaS or other), and resources at co-location or hosted facilities. Some people look at that say that's just business as usual, while others say it adds up to one big IT cloud. Nomenclature aside, the question remains: how will you manage it holistically? Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps How Belgacom Achieves End-to-End Monitoring The demand for automation and unified computing and monitoring is on the rise in the service provider world. As the Belgacom ICT case study unfolds, telecom providers can turn to innovative technology approaches for operational efficiency and service performance. Read now! Scaling and provisioning virtual servers While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don't address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the responsiveness and availability of a highly utilized Web application, such as Microsoft SharePoint, can deteriorate when the virtual machine it runs on is out of capacity. Read More Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization and reduces costs While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilization rates, a costly problem that can be addressed with thin provisioning technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Ensuring Disaster Recovery with Equalizer and Envoy In this paper, we'll explore how to use Coyote Point's Envoy to ensure 24x7 availability and fast connections for web content deployed at more than one geo¬graphic location or data center. See this and other independent product reviews available by clicking here. Read More What a Groupon Deal: $12,500 IT Consulting Discount Most people know social-buying site Groupon for its steep discounts on everything from spa packages and restaurants to sporting events and dry cleaning. One thing most Groupon customers aren't used to seeing: a $12,500 discount on IT consulting. Read More Latency concerns not stopping overseas clouds Concerns about latency and questions about security and regulatory issues aren't stopping CIOs from moving key systems to the cloud, even if it means using apps hosted in data centers on the other side of the globe. Read More Does Arizona pay an IT penalty for ignoring DST? Last week I noticed that Daylight Saving Time would be upon us this Sunday, March 13, and I got to wondering if there were IT-related issues involved in the changeover that Network World should be covering. An initial search query on the subject reminded me that Arizona doesn't participate in DST at all, which got me wondering whether that independent streak in and of itself leads to any techno-headaches.... Read More
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