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Server Growth In Blades And Scalable Solutions

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Wikibon is a professional community solving technology and business problems through an open source sharing of free advisory knowledge. According to newly released data from IDC, overall worldwide revenue for servers decreased by 4% in Q3 2012. Over the last decade, as server virtualization adoption has increased, we have seen a steady decline in the revenue and number of servers. Some bright spots of growth for server revenue are in the blade server and hyper-scale or "density optimized" servers. As discussed in Wikibon's Software-led infrastructure manifesto, converged infrastructure (which typically uses blade servers) and low-

Unified Fabric for a Backup Server

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This meter represents your reputation at a 100% scale based on your level of participation on the site.Find out moreOutside of that large, black, monolithic machine in the middle of the datacenter referred to as the mainframe, there aren’t that many servers that require as many network and storage connections as the backup server. It’s not really sexy, it’s not computing Pi, generally doesn’t run a hypervisor and is bought with one goal in mind, move data. Not just some data, but a lot. These machines often move all of the data in your datacenter off of disk and onto tape, either real or virtual. In many datacenters, these backup servers are

Burning Man Versus VMworld – The Incomplete List

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This weekend marked the migration of people to and from San Francisco – VMworld2012 attendees were headed to SFO while Burners were heading out to Black Rock City. Knowing people in both camps, I thought it’d be fun to do a little comparison list. Thirteen ways to look at Burning Man versus VMworld -- acronyms, bacon, clothing and more.

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Fusion-io Welcomes Cisco, Our Newest OEM

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Fusion ioMemory products have been qualified for Cisco Servers for some time, and customers have been asking about using Fusion ioMemory in UCS Blades. Today, we're proud to welcome Cisco as an original equipment manufacturer.

Through our new relationship, Fusion ioMemory will be architected into the Unified Computing System (UCS) Servers to amplify in-server performance in UCS B-series blade servers. The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization

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