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Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on stage for... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said Chatter was the company's "fourth cloud" - joining its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud. Salesforce.com has... [19 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Chief executive Marc Benioff announced the service in San Francisco at the company's Dreamforce conference, which he said drew 19,000 attendees. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called... [19 Nov 2009]
Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
White Paper Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization offered by the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-VÂ... [14 Nov 2009]
From Wagons to Trains: Data Backup and Recovery in 2009 and Beyond
White Paper Backing up data using traditional methods such as tapes, SAN, or NAS have many problems that only get worse over time while using an online backup strategy securely over the Internet continues to have more and more... [13 Nov 2009]
Virtual Server-SAN Connectivity: Why Blade Server Virtualization and Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity Are Rapidly Being Adopted
White Paper Emulex is currently the only vendor offering NPIV support in its HBAs, both traditional and blade-sized, and drivers. NPIV has been implemented cooperatively by Emulex and IBM and is now successfully deployed on the IBM zSeries mainframe... [12 Nov 2009]
Towards SLA-Based Optimal Workload Distribution in SANs
White Paper The paper considers the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for server processes while retaining flexibility for future changes. First, one gives an algorithm for... [12 Nov 2009]
Fiber Channel Over Ethernet: Enabling Server I/O Consolidation
White Paper Moving Storage Area Network (SAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) traffic onto a single transport benefits data centers in many ways. The development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) opens the door to the real... [12 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment Michael Deutch, San Francisco The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The Naked CIO gets some mixed reactions to his views on the... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo AT&T Labs in San Francisco opened its doors on Thursday to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. [09 Nov 2009]
Demystifying Storage Networking DAS, SAN, NAS, NAS Gateways, Fiber Channel, and iSCSI
White Paper Options for connecting computers to storage have increased in a short time. Variations and associated acronyms for storage networking seem to be materializing faster than they can be tracked. Storage networking offers capabilities and... [09 Nov 2009]
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance
White Paper But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file system fragmentation within a... [06 Nov 2009]
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.
White Paper But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file system fragmentation within a... [06 Nov 2009]
Whitepaper:Â EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab
White Paper This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and... [05 Nov 2009]
SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
White Paper The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN... [30 Oct 2009]