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Derby Day Victory The CRM applications are Web-based, and a high-speed network is used to connect to the remote data center. Four Gateway servers support

Getting in Condition Getting the power to the servers is one problem. Another is making sure it is noise-free and at the right voltage. While UPSes and

Dual-Core and Diskless Colfax International of Sunnyvale, Calif., which has been in business since 1987, caters to high-end scientific research and other

The Big Rival IBM may be king of the hill, but HP's continues its swift ascent. Like IBM, it is experiencing strong growth in data center deployment of

Interim Measure Although the IT staff at Bryant is happy with its Intel blades, it intends to transition to IBM JS 20 blades to accomplish yet more

The Non-IT Side of DR Most experts concur on another point — IT is only one aspect of DR. "It's a big mistake to think that the IT department is the

HP HP cites the key trends in the disk array market as being: grid-enabled storage solutions, support for iSCSI and 4 GB FC infrastructures, smaller form

Cisco Chases   Building on its network switch success, Cisco has entered the storage  switch market with a vengeance. From a 5.9 percent market share in

Encrypting the Wish List Security comes in many forms. For some it may mean having a nice home, money in the bank, or perhaps a decent burglar alarm

SMASH in Action How will SMASH help in the real world? Three likely scenarios — a large cluster, a branch office, and a mixed rack of 1U servers

First-Gen Problems Late to the 64-bit party, Intel clearly made up the lost ground rapidly. But will the same thing happen in dual core? Maybe not. One of

Split Storage In addition to being used in traditional high-performance computing and failover applications, specialized clusters are making their way