Prepare for the era of the data center in a box

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	Prepare for the era of the data center in a box Start-up SimpliVity is the latest vendor to emerge from the development stage with an all-in-one array that performs all the functions of a complete IT stack with the addition of deduplication and data replication. More companies and products are preparing similar launches. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. In this Issue OnLive crushed by high infrastructure bills Robert L. Mitchell: IBM moves mainframe into business continuity cloud 10 questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin Zenoss boards the programmable data-center bus Richi Jennings: Dell hell continues as it morphs into enterprise cloud company Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud WEBCAST: VCE Boosting Asset Utilization of Vblock Customers This webcast will highlight detailed results from a recent IDC study, sponsored by VCE, of five organizations that have implemented Vblock Systems, and seen dramatic cost savings, vast improvement in deployment times, and reduction in downtime. Learn more. OnLive crushed by high infrastructure bills Streaming video game service OnLive is based around powerful servers that streams games to inexpensive TV adapters in the homes of its users, but it was a miscalculation in the amount of infrastructure needed that ultimately led the company to the brink of bankruptcy. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: IBM moves mainframe into business continuity cloud The mainframe will soon be just another part of IBM's cloud-based disaster recovery service offering, allowing the enterprise to effectively create a backup data center in the cloud, says IBM distinguished engineer and CTO Richard Cocchiara. Read More 10 questions for Fiberlink CFO Mark Partin Name: Mark Partin Read More WEBCAST: Intel Corporation Stealthy Threats: Driving a New Approach to Security Watch this video to find out how rootkits and other stealthy threats have significantly changed today's threat landscape, and how you can prevent these threats with an integrated solution from Intel and McAfee that delivers embedded security beyond the operating system. Learn more. Zenoss boards the programmable data-center bus Responding to the trend of streamlining data-center management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus. Read More Richi Jennings: Dell hell continues as it morphs into enterprise cloud company The Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) Q2 results make ugly reading. The company is in mid-transition from a consumer-PC-led business into an enterprise 'n' cloud-computing firm. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers manage to avoid using the phrase post-PC. Read More Review: Google Compute Engine rocks the cloud Google's new compute cloud offers a crisp and clean way to spin up Linux instances and easily tap other Google APIs Read More
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