Jon Brodkin

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Stealthy start-up looks to virtualize networks

California company has big names behind it, but so far nothing substantive. It may give peek at its approach at an upcoming technology show.

Three team up on virtualization security

Cisco, NetApp and VMware create guidelines for safely deploying virtualized applications with their products by enterprises and cloud service providers

SSD could replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says

The speeds of spinning disks keeps increasing, but they're not keeping up with servers. Solid state disks are very expensive now, but if their costs drop enough they could replace hard drives

Businesses adopt social networking without IT help: Survey

A recent Cisco survey finds that most companies using social networking tools don

Virtualization, data deluge among key IT issues

Energy costs and the impact of social networking on the enterprise will also challenge IT departments, analysis firm Gartner tells annual data centre conference

NHL looks to Web and mobile to popularize game

The NHL looks to boost its popularity in the U.S. with a major Web and mobile push

Amazon cuts cloud prices, offers new database service

Amazon is lowering the price of its Web-based virtual servers and has bolstered its cloud services with a new relational database and a set of high-memory virtual server instances.

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