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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-

Managing the Big Data growth problem in the enterprise is tough. While IT departments grapple with how to support complex Big Data environments, legal teams are tasked with making accommodations for Big Data in the already expensive e-Discovery process. How do legal teams account for emerging data types and do it all with fewer resources and budget spend?   This webinar discusses how to best to retain, access, discover and ultimately delete content in compliance with evolving regulations and case law.Mr. Taylor leads CommVault’s Information Management business including Information Risk, e-Discovery, Compliance and Information Search. Over the

When it comes to the need for a more flexible, highly available server and storage environment, I think one of our customers in France—MPO International, a home entertainment specialist—said it best.Sebastien Chateau-Dutier, Systems and Networks Manager at MPO France explains, “For us, flexibility was central. Before we spoke to 2M-Equation, we thought all storage arrays were equal. Dell Compellent technology is based on intelligence and capability. Beyond just managing data volumes, it’s also a system uniquely designed for dynamic data performance and growth.” Just six months after joining Dell Compellent as General Manager I couldn't agree

Dell’s PowerEdge R820 is the first Xeon E5-4600 production server to market. We take a look at this compact four-socket server, which can be used to manage heavy duty databases, virtualisation, HPC and VDI hosting.

SQL Server 2012 offers a leap forward in turning Big Data into business intelligence, says Microsoft.

New technologies are meant to free up staff for more innovative tasks, but Jennifer Scott believes it will just lead to job losses.

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Day 1 of Dell Storage Forum Complete, Almost!

Today was our official start to DSF Boston!  It started out with a keynote for our channel partners and then they were whisked away for a design center tour at the Nashua branch.  While they were off having a good time, that left .me and Lance back at conference headquarters

New Dell 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers - Wave 2 Announced Today!

Following up on the highly praised Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Server launch announced on February 27th 2012, today Dell announced the second wave of the new line of PowerEdge Servers which include performance and density minded 4 socket systems (Dell PowerEdge R820 and M820), as well as a line of value oriented 2 and 1 socket server systems.

These new servers

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