Data Center

Thu, January 26, 2012 - The Layer 2-3 Ethernet switch market is forecast to approach $28 billion in 2016, with future growth driven primarily by sales of Ethernet switches optimized for larger data center deployments.

Thu, January 19, 2012 - Struggling Eastman Kodak sees opportunity in its digital capture patents, and printing and deposition technologies

Fri, January 13, 2012 - Global business has been caught off-guard by the recent explosion in data volumes and is trying to cope with short-term fixes such as buying in data centre capacity, research by Oracle has found.

Fri, January 13, 2012 - The slot machine company has been trying to expand in the online gaming business

Wed, January 11, 2012 - The game for kids 9 and up lets them scan toys into a tablet, each with their own characteristics and mission

Tue, January 10, 2012 - A growing trend in the disaster recovery arena for cloud providers is the use of load-balanced data centers instead of hot-cold data centers. Companies are deploying private clouds that are load balanced between their datacenters to take care of disaster needs. If one datacenter suffered from a disaster, the other datacenter would be operating even though it is at reduced capacity.

Mon, January 09, 2012 - Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his data center's key services -- availability and business continuity -- needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data center couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the improvements in functionality and performance that he required.

Fri, January 06, 2012 - Using Auto Commit Memory, it demonstrated 1 billion IOPS on eight servers

Fri, January 06, 2012 - Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks.

Wed, January 04, 2012 - Intel is advising its customers to increase the temperature in their data centers, claiming that companies can save four percent in energy costs for every 1ºC they turn up the heat.