IO Turbine rolls out software to solve VMware bottlenecks

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	IO Turbine rolls out software to solve VMware bottlenecks IO Turbine came out of stealth last week with a software product that identifies hot data and uses solid state drives on the physical server to create a write-through read cache. The VMware-specific implementation provides file, volume and disk drivers in the ESX guest host, as well as a VLUN driver in the hypervisor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation Best Practices for Data Performance on Storage Area Networks Because SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system, SAN is unaware of file fragmentation and uable to solve this issue. Performance suffers. This white paper details in clear terms how, where and why Diskeeper data performance technology should be used to ensure maximum SAN performance and optimum data response time. Read more. In this Issue Seagate, Western Digital merger deals face EC probe Sandisk updates SSD line with SATA III models Cloud-based IT services Citrix expands virtualization, from the data center to the iPad YouTube turns 6 ... and, yes, they do grow up so fast WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer FREE 30-day trialware Bring your largest and most mission-critical server operations to a new level of efficiency and reliability. Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer provides uncompromising peak performance continuously and without requiring downtime or further management. Learn more. Seagate, Western Digital merger deals face EC probe Moves by Seagate and Western Digital to acquire hard-drive companies are being probed by European regulators because of "competition concerns", the European Commission said on Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Transaction Tracing through Complex Web Applications In this Quest white paper, learn about the components of a transaction as they cross various application domains. Then, discover the difficulty in connecting transaction components for monitoring, why continuously monitoring is key and how a third-party solution simplifies the challenge. Learn more. Sandisk updates SSD line with SATA III models Sandisk has updated its line of solid-state drives (SSDs) for tablet and portable computers with models that feature higher performance. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation The Efficiency Essentials You're Dead Without This white paper takes you inside Diskeeper 2011 and clearly shows you why you shouldn't run your network without it. Learn more. Cloud-based IT services It is easy to suggest that one of the leaders of the first wave of public cloud computing was salesforce.com. A few years ago, the Salesforce CRM solution was one of a small number of enterprise applications that companies were just beginning to acquire from a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. Read More Citrix expands virtualization, from the data center to the iPad Citrix products designed to let workers access desktops and applications from any device. Read More YouTube turns 6 ... and, yes, they do grow up so fast All the world is a stage and pretty soon everyone in it will be featured in a video on YouTube ... at least once. From a post this morning on YouTube's blog noting the site's sixth anniversary: Read More
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