On May 12th, 2008 VMware announced that nine storage replication vendors have tested and certified their technology with VMware’s long awaited Site Recovery Manager (SRM) offering. SRM is an important step forward in DR (DR) preparedness because it automates the process of restarting virtual machines (VM) at an alternate data center. Of course, your data and your VM configuration files must be pre ...
I’ve been following the voluminous press around Sprint’s WiMax partnership announcement today. I’ve been following the news mostly to see if I’m missing anything, and it seems I’m not. It looks like a good news/bad news story for end users of the service. The good news is that there is a solid consortium around Sprint’s Xohm initiative which, until now, seemed increasingly more promise than substa ...
Everyone wants to make their data centers more efficient and gain recognition for their efforts but we’re lacking the benchmarks to shoot for. Well, here’s your chance to help change that. On March 20th the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) kicked off a data collection process to help create Energy Star™ ratings for data centers. Energy Star, the best known energy efficiency identifier, i ...
ThinkPanmure released a bulletin this week speculating that networking stalwart Cisco had plans to enter the femtocell fray via the potential acquisition of equipment vendor iP.access. If the plans prove true, is this another Navini move for Cisco? I’d say not. An acquisition like this would symbolize a new vector in the vendor’s network equipment strategy. This move would take Cisco equipment in ...
In recent years, AMD has struggled to remain relevant in the commercial PC as it has competed against Intel, the market share leader and gold-standard in processor performance. Today, companies often only choose AMD for its lower initial acquisition costs — which run approximately $50 to $75 cheaper than Intel’s, although you’re sacrificing performance to get there. This approach of narrowly under ...