10Gb datacenter Ethernet is slowly coming into the enterprise market right now. Adoption of a new datacenter technology requires acknowledgement, adoption, and embracing the new technology for it to be successful. Intel appears to have identified this and is positioning itself to push the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet by pushing their integrated LAN On Motherboard modules. Read on for more information on how Intel is making their move. 
Intel: 10Gb Adoption In Datacenter Networks
November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Announcing Tech Field Day 4: This Week in San Jose!
November 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer higher than HP’s bid. But this mega deal, like the Data Domain war before it, sends a strong signal to the enterprise IT world: It’s open season on data storage companies! But the rising superpowers are also likely looking at networking as an area of expansion. The game is afoot!
Live From HP Tech Forum: HP DL980, Blades, and EVA Cluster
June 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We were pleased to be invited to attend HP’s annual Tech Forum event, held in Las Vegas on June 21-24, 2010. Among the many announcements made by HP, the massive DL980 and new blade servers stood out, along with the StorOnce data deduplication technology. Since not everyone could attend this event, we recorded some video from the show floor to give a feeling of being there.
Cisco UCS Servers – A Little Bit of Cynical Marketing Magic Can Go a Long Way
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You can take the view that Cisco Unified Computing System is a product that is carefully designed so that selling it is as easy as possible. A cynical marketing analysis has produced a product that customers can be convinced to buy. Or is it an innovation in server and data centre design that is desperately needed?
How Did Microsoft and Intel Get 1 Million iSCSI IOPS?
March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ever since Microsoft and Intel declared that the combination of Windows and Nehalem could deliver over a million iSCSI IOPS, I’ve been curious about just how they did it. What black magic could push that many I/Os over a single Ethernet connection? And what was on the other end? Now Intel has revealed all in a whitepaper, and the results are surprising!
Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits
January 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Monofunctional or Multifunctional – Cheap always WINS
April 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4
March 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Wire-Speed 10 Gb iSCSI, Anyone?
March 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
Along with many tidbits about storage advances in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, this WinHEC presentation by Microsoft’s Suzanne Morgan demonstrated that the combination of the Windows iSCSI Initiator and NetApp FAS 3070 filer could saturate a 10 Gb Ethernet link. How many other storage arrays can do that?