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Where to spend your virtualization money

In 2007 and 2008, many analysts are forecasting tremendous growth for the data center virtualization market. The past 20 years have been pretty interesting. Legacy big iron architectures moved to client/server architectures, which then moved to open x86 architectures running Linux, and finally to “blades.” This ecosystem change has caused an explosion of whitebox and [...] Read More

DR should never be “typical” — so why are so many companies getting it wrong?

Disaster recovery strategies are not new. In fact, many CIOs and IT Managers have DR mandates by executive management. The ever growing possibility of severe weather, power failures, terrorist attacks, pandemics, or even a fire or HVAC leaks in the datacenter are all driving this focus. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiatives are fairly large efforts [...] Read More