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There are plenty of cloud services, but many rely on virtual processes running on shared systems. Stratascale's Ironscale lets you provision bare metal services. Mike Fratto provides a hands-on review of how it works and what you can do with it.

Our hands-on evaluation of Sychron's virtual desktop management revealed a product that is adept at automating the rapid provisioning and the ongoing management of VMWare ESC and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

In the fourth installment of our Fibre Channel over Ethernet Tutorial series, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland walks us through the various scenarios that compel organizations to implement FCoE.

In our final Whiteboard tutorial on Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Storage Switzerland's George Crump walks us through what an actual implementation of FCoE would look like, including what the tangible benefits will be.

In Part 3 of our Fibre Channel over Ethernet Whiteboard Tutorial series, analyst George Crump talks about the benefits & drivers behind FCoE, including simplified infrastructure, easier management, better performance, & guarantees for critical apps.

EMC acquired Data Domain in early July. Director of InformationWeek Analytics discusses the implications of the acquisition and data deduplication, including some of the industries that the technology is most appropriate for.

In part 2 of our FCoE Whiteboard series Storage Switzerland's George Crump discusses some of the elements of a fibre channel over ethernet infrastructure, covering both the converged network adapter and the switch.

In part 1 of our FCoE Whiteboard series Storage Switzerland's George Crump explains the benefits of FCoE, namely the reduction of cabling and network cards in servers, the subsequent costs savings & convergence of infrastructure management.

In Part 4 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical look at the cost ramifications for Solid State Disk, including a look at the tradeoffs in performance and capacity.

In Part 3 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical look at the various ways that Solid State Disk is being delivered: as a separate SSD box, a drive module, and as a PCIE card.

Take a guided tour inside EMCs newest storage system

In Part 2 of our Whiteboard Tutorial Series on SSD, George Crump of Storage Switzerland takes us through how SSD can affect performance. SSD has a price premium, and organizations must ensure that their apps can exploit the technology to the fullest.

In Part 1 of our SSD Whiteboard Video Tutorial series, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, provides an in-depth, technical history of drive technology, looking at cost, performance, reliability & the applications of storage solutions over the years.

Mike Feinberg at EMC and Steven Caniano at AT&T discuss EMC Atmos onLine, which EMC announced at EMC World 2009. AT&T also announced a new storage service based on Atmos at the show as well.

Andrew Conry-Murray of InformationWeek sat down with Ben Matheson, the Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing at Vmware, to talk about Vsphere 4.

Mark Lewis, President, Content Management & Archiving Division at EMC and Andrew Conry-Murray, editor at InformationWeek discuss EMCs content management strategy, new product rollouts, and the role of search in content management.

Startup Ctera traveled from Israel to show off its exquisite little device, which plugs into a wall outlet, a USB stick and an Ethernet connection, and thus provides shared storage for a small network and connects to Ctera's cloud backup service.

InformationWeek's John Foley speaks with Carter George, the Vice President of Products for Ocarina Networks. Unlike many storage optimization solutions, Ocarina Networks offers storage optimization that is focused on online storage.

InformationWeek's Michael Singer talks with Cleversafe's President and CEO, Chris Gladwin. Cleversafe describes itself as the leader in dispersed storage technology, which is the ideal way to store large, growing amounts of digital assets cost effect

Eric Kaplan, the Director of Marketing for Rainfinity explains the benefits of file virtualization.

Rich Napolitano of EMC Storage Division explains some new products from EMC in the area of deduplication.

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Is Catching On As Data Centers Consolidate and Server and Storage Virtualization Takes Off