Tag: infrastructure

  • Microsoft Releases Virtualization Beta

    Microsoft Releases Virtualization Beta

    Peter Galli

    Categories:

    Microsoft has released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology known as Hyper-V, which will be included in three versions of Windows Server 2008 when it ships early next year. The release of the Hyper-V beta is ahead of schedule. Microsoft officials said previously it would be available in the first quarter of… Read more

  • NetApp’s Past and Future

    NetApp’s Past and Future

    Chris Preimesberger

    Categories:

    Over the past 13 years as CEO of Network Appliance, Dan Warmenhoven has overseen the company’s growth from a small startup to one of the key players in the highly competitive data storage market. Warmenhoven recently sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger to talk about NetApp’s past and future. Congratulations on your 13th… Read more

  • Wanted: A Few Good MSPs

    Wanted: A Few Good MSPs

    Sharon Linsenbach

    Categories:

    MasterIT is looking for a few good MSPs to deliver technology using an IT-as-utility business model, which the firm has claimed is “almost recession proof.” The Bartlett, Tenn.-based company began selling IT-as-utility in 2006 and is now looking to expand its reach by recruiting business partners that will act as MSPs that sell IT-as-utility under… Read more

  • HP Tacks On More Virtualization and Power Tools

    HP Tacks On More Virtualization and Power Tools

    Scott Ferguson

    Categories:

    Hewlett-Packard wants to make it easier to manage a data center full of blades. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 12, HP executives will detail updates to its BladeSystem C-class infrastructure that include new ways to manage virtual environments across thousands of individual blades within a data center. HP, based in Palo… Read more

  • Ingram Micro to Offer Cisco MDS 9000 Series

    Sharon Linsenbach

    Categories:

    Ingram Micro announced on Nov.12 it will offer Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series of storage area networking products, including both fabric switches and directors, allowing partners to bulk up their storage solution line cards. Cisco’s network-enabled storage products enable Ingram Micro channel partners to build storage solutions that include virtualized networks and remote backup, as well… Read more

  • 14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

    14 Delivery Models Transforming IT

    Ericka Chickowski

    Categories:

    The technology prognosticators at Gartner say the convergence of new IT delivery models will fundamentally transform the way businesses consume and interact with IT within the next three to five years. “In and of themselves, discretely defined, things like Software as a Service, grid computing and virtualization are important in their own disciplines within IT,”… Read more