Creating a Best-Run Enterprise Infrastructure – Out of the Box - 11/28/2006 2:05:00 PM
It is an accepted fact that over three-quarters of an IT department’s budget and time is spent merely managing its standing infrastructure, as opposed to developing the new applications and services that will help generate additional revenues and drive the business forward
Since their inception in the late 1990’s blade servers have threatened to revolutionise the management of server rooms and data centres. This revolution is now here with the arrival of the HP BladeSystem c-Class.
Dr. Patricia Florissi, CTO, EMC Resource Management Software Group - 11/16/2006 12:10:00 PM
The ongoing convergence of data and voice into next-generation networks provides a significant financial benefit through the reduction of capital expenditures. Service providers and enterprises are now offering completely new types of services, making them more competitive and opening up new revenue streams. The key issue is the effective management of these complex service-oriented architectures.
Marc Staimer, President & CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting - 10/27/2006 2:45:00 PM
Chief Dragon Slayer Marc Staimer on how virtualization took hold in storage, once established vendors figured out how to protect their revenue stream. While storage virtualization looked to be highly disruptive to the established storage vendors,it hasn’t led to any major re-ordering of the industry. Slowly but surely, customers are waking up to the potential of virtualization — not in the form of new applications or capabilities, but rather in the simplification of storage infrastructure – there’s simply fewer things that will have to be managed.
Michael Schaffer, CTO, Alibris - 10/27/2006 2:35:00 PM
With 60 million titles for sale, storage consolidation makes lots of sense for Alibris. In addition to its retail Website for books, music, and movies, Alibris also maintains a search engine, ecommerce platform, and inventory system. With millions of record changes flowing across its infrastructure every day, the online retailer couldn’t afford bottlenecks. A Fibre Channel SAN has given the company lots of new breathing room.
Mike Gustafson, President & CEO, BlueArc - 10/27/2006 1:55:00 PM
BlueArc's CEO Mike Gustafson on how converged network storage makes the business case for virtualisation and whether customers have a philosophical or more pain driven approach to this new technology. Plus the new opportunities that 10 Gigabit Ethernet provides and are we moving towards a unification of storage and network management.
How BlueArc Corporation has changed the economics of network storage. - 10/18/2006 10:00:00 AM
BlueArc Corporation changes the economics of network storage by delivering products that protect customers' storage investments and scale to meet the explosive growth of enterprise data. The Titan 2200 is designed to meet the requirements of today's sophisticated enterprise data centers and high-performance applications with new levels of storage performance. Titan is built using a unique hardware-accelerated architecture and offers enterprise-class management tools – including data migration, replication, and anti-virus support.
Alexa Internet’s Niall O’Driscoll talks about search space. - 10/18/2006 9:00:00 AM
Alexa Internet is a California-based subsidiary of Amazon.com and operates a Website that provides information on the Web traffic to other Websites by creating related links derived from user behavior, thereby allowing users to innovate within the search space.
