Monthly Archives: May 2012

Cloudy Wednesday: Governance Meets Cloud

Cloud computing removes some IT responsibilities but governance is not one of those responsibilities reports Beth Stackpole for InformationWeek. Despite handing off certain functions through infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), governance is still the responsibility of the organization and not the cloud providers … Continue reading

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For NFL, bigger is better – except in IT

Here is an interesting tid bit from Patrick Thibodeau of Computerworld regarding the National Football League’s IT operations and data centers. Despite having big stadiums and big players the National Football League has three data centers that occupy about 2,000 … Continue reading

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ESI 2012 IBM Beacon Awards Finalist

Evolving Solutions is a 2012 IBM Beacon Awards Finalist in the Outstanding Systems Storage Solution category. IBM Beacon Awards recognize technical excellence, industry expertise, and innovative solutions for IBM technology and services. Evolving Solutions was named a 2012 finalist for … Continue reading

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Cloudy Wednesday: Cloud-based Disaster Recovery

Rachel Dines of Forrester sets out to demystify cloud computing-based disaster recovery in a recent blog post. First, all the buzz around cloud-based disaster recovery is warranted finds Ms. Dines as any new approach to disaster recovery that is fast … Continue reading

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Diamonds in the Data Center

Diamonds in the data center? Yes, finds engineers who are using diamonds to change the properties of an alloy used in phase-change memory reports Lucas Mearian for Computerworld. This new research focuses on changes to the inexpensive GST phase-change memory … Continue reading

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New Research: Wireless in the Data Center

Johanna Ambrosio of Computerworld reports about a new possibility of wireless capabilities in the data center. Researchers in California are working on a method called “3D Beamforming” where data can be transmitted around the data center using 60 GHz Wi-Fi … Continue reading

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ESI Helping Customers Better Manage Storage Growth

Today, we announce our new designation as an IBM Storage Specialty Elite Business Partner, allowing us to better serve datacenter customers facing explosive data storage growth. The IBM Storage Specialty Elite designation is for business partners that sell IBM storage … Continue reading

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Forrester – The Future of Backup & Recovery

According to a blog post by Forrester Research Inc.’s Rachel Dines, data backup software vendors need to get creative with their data protection service offerings and expand beyond simple “backup”. Her long-term vision for data backup products is a user … Continue reading

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Why consider 10GB?

A common question I receive is “Why should I consider 10GB in my network?”  There are many reasons why customers should consider 10GB and the way market trends are moving, the question will turn from “why” to “when”. Virtualization is … Continue reading

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Cloudy Wednesday: The CFO’s Role

Tom Powledge writes for Network World that the CFO plays an integral role in ensuring the organization takes control of its cloud computing environment to mitigate risk and realize scalability and agility. That said, in a recent survey 54% of … Continue reading

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